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Re: One day travelcards and collection from fastticket machines         

Group: uk.transport.london · Group Profile
Author: Charles Ellson
Date: Sep 17, 2008 15:31

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:09:28 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On 17 Sep, 16:08, Charles Ellson ellson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:47:26 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>>>As ever it's difficult to discuss the potential holes in ticketing
>>>without also flagging them up to those who might wish to take
>>>advantage.
>>
>> I doubt if that particular fiddle is any secret.
>>
>
>By its very nature it can't be a secret - as I said in a post
>upthread, working this through is "hardly beyond the realm of most
>peoples capacity for logical thought" - however I've never seen or
>heard or read about it anywhere, and despite my earlier comment most
>people don't spend a lot of time thinking about such things.
>
>That said, any fiddle that relies upon this is fairly limited in its
>scope, and what's more it is unknown whether there are any
>countermeasures and if so what they are, e.g. if a ticket is pre-
>encoded for use on a particular day of the week, or on an odd or an
>even date etc etc.
>
IMU it would have become encoded (in terms of applying a date) the
first time it passed through a ticket barrier at an Underground
station. AFAIAA bus inspectors only have Oyster card readers and Mk1
eyeballs so presumably a 1-day Travelcard would have to be taken to a
station unless someone has been specially armed with a magnetic card
reader.
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