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Oyster card suffers second rush-hour failure
News A Transport for London (TfL) spokesperson said the problem is believed to be the result of incorrect data tables being sent out by the Oyster card contractor, Transys. London's Oyster travel smartcard system has failed for the second time in a...
[July 25, 2008, 11:18]
Dutch researchers crack London's Oyster card
Blog Now, this card uses the same technology - NXP's Mifare - as Transport for London's Oyster card. Wouter Teepe and Bart Jacobs, from Radboud University, today told the Dutch parliament that they'd cracked and cloned London's Oyster card.
[June 18, 2008, 17:03]
Dutch researchers crack London's Oyster card
Blog Comment Good thing there aren't crooks, they could've just sold their discovery to counterfieters who'd then make fake oyster cards!
[June 18, 2008, 21:47]
Dutch researchers crack London's Oyster card
Blog Comment Whatever security is used there will eventually be a crack/hack for it so I don't know why TfL were confident that the Oyster was safe. But once someone has done it for "research" or to prove it could be done others will attempt it for profit or...
[June 19, 2008, 9:15]
Stallman comments on the Oyster
Blog After our coverage of London's Oyster card, which uses Linux for its online payment system, we had a response from Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation. Each Oyster card has a unique ID, which it transmits when it is used.
[June 9, 2008, 22:03]
TfL explores options for Oyster replacement
News Transport for London may replace its Oyster card with with new ticketing systems operated through mobile phones or bank cards. Will Judge, head of future ticketing at Transport for London (TfL), told the London Assembly's Budget and Performance...
[October 23, 2008, 9:28]
'Wave and pay' travel on way to Liverpool
News 'Wave and pay' technology of the kind seen in London's Oyster card is now on its way to Liverpool. Londoners are already able to use their credit cards to pay contactlessly for their transport, after Barclaycard launched its OnePulse card last year...
[October 22, 2008, 12:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Last year, I wrote about London Transport's Oyster card -- an RFID ticketing system that lets us Londoners skip nimbly around the capital from tube to bus to train without relying on little bits of paper.
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
Transport of not much delight
Talkback You don't need anything other than the oyster card itself to travel around London whether or not you have your ticket inspected or you want to extend it. I agree that it is an oversight that some of the people who nead to be able to read the...
[October 28, 2003, 16:31]
Barclays trials 'wave and pay' debit cards
News Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the capital's plastic. Barclays customers will soon be able to use their cards in the normal chip and PIN manner...
[December 14, 2006, 8:02]
TfL reponds to Oyster crack claims
Blog Transport for London has been quick to hit back at claims, made by Dutch security researchers, that the Oyster card is crackable and clonable. No personal information is stored on an Oyster card and specific information relating to the individual...
[June 19, 2008, 9:58]
Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux
News Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's "unethical" Oyster-card system. Online payments cannot be made anonymously, so anyone paying online or linking their Oyster card to...
[June 9, 2008, 13:13]
Transport of not much delight
Talkback Just read Rupert's piece on the new Oyster Card. What is all the hassle with the new Oyster Card on London Transport? If you buy a single journey card or day card, you must use the old puch system (there is a time-stamper in every station, usually...
[October 6, 2003, 9:03]
Barclays unveils 'wave and pay' for cabs
News After introducing Oyster card-style contactless payments functionality into its plastic, Barclays has been working on a contactless system for taxis. Barclays and Computer Cab have teamed up to develop a near field communication (NFC) payments...
[April 30, 2007, 9:44]
I wonder
Talkback I know a whole bunch of Londoners who don't have an Oyster card for precisely this reason. Given that these folks, who genuinely "have nothing to hide", still turned down TfL's kind offer of an Oyster Card/Travel Monitoring System, what do you...
[August 12, 2008, 18:03]
Contactless payment system crash probed
News Ticket gates had to be left open when Oyster card readers at tube stations across the whole of London Underground and the Docklands Light Railway crashed at 0400. Transys, the EDS-led consortium behind the Oyster card system, said it had identified...
[March 10, 2005, 15:10]
'Oyster phone' trial goes live
News On Wednesday a consortium of companies and organisations — including O2, Nokia, Visa and Transport for London — announced a six-month trial of mobile phones with built-in Oyster card functionality. The Oyster card, introduced to the public in 2003...
[November 28, 2007, 14:28]
Smart-card ticketing goes Underground
News This month 80,000 of the cards were issued to staff of London Underground and Transport for London under the "Oyster" smart-card programme, a £1.2bn, 17-year project intended to ultimately replace current ticketing systems.
[November 20, 2002, 12:57]
Court rules university can publish Oyster crack
News Chip company NXP Semiconductors, which manufacturers the Mifare Classic chips used in the Oyster card, had tried to halt the publication of the paper through the court. The Oyster card is widely used on London Underground.
[July 18, 2008, 17:00]
Transys comment speculation
Blog Transys is the consortium which runs London's Oyster card travel smartcard, and consists of EDS and Cubic. TfL announced last week that it would end the Oyster card contract with Transys -- the contract termination will take effect in 2010.
[August 20, 2008, 17:54]
