Anyone work for Barclays? RFID cards

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Fizzy Fish

Yeah I'm not 100% convinced about it either TBH. I can see the benefits for quick low-value payment items such as coffee/newspapers, but it never takes the fraudsters long to figure out how to cheat the system - as SK has demonstrated!!




I'd be surprised if that really is the case, as Oyster uses a slightly different technology and isn't usually affected by payment cards. The Barclaycard/Oyster tie up is purely a marketing thing to try and eek out a commercial advantage from their early take-up of the technology.

That said the Transport for London readers will accept contactless payment in the near future, and some are already enabled, so I'd be interested to know if it's causing problems. Can you send me the link?

PS. don't even start me on what I think about using contactless payment on public transport...

Yeah, cos TfL really did their homework with the Oyster Card RFID chip supplier....

Originally Posted by tigersaw

It was from reading countless pages on theregister.co.uk , so cant find it again easily, but the comments here:
http://districtdave.proboards.com/in...&page=1#243238
are typical of what I was reading

Thanks, I was wandering whether it was something I hadn't come across, but it sounds like it might be the 'card collision' issue, where the reader doesn't know which card to use so it defaults to not working until you separate them and just touch one on the reader. This is going to happen a lot in the future when its rolled out to public transport and more cards are issued.

It shouldn't actually stop the Oyster card from working per se, just not when it's next to something else with the RFID chip

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Yeah, cos TfL really did their homework with the Oyster Card RFID chip supplier....

Yeah don't even start me, I have to deal with this system every day! I'm in the unenviable position of having no say in how the contracts/technology are set up, but having to somehow make it work and explain it to the general populace...

Thank heavens I only have 4 weeks left then it's someone else's problem for a year or so