Contractor fare dodger

[Halo Jones]

A search of the fraudster's home revealed a sophisticated forgery set-up which included glossy photographic paper, computers and printers, as well as craft knives, scissors and a cutting board.

Sophisticated? really? I have all that at home

[CloudWalker]

Surprised no ones cracked the RFID chips to get through the oyster card readers.
If credit cards can be cloned surly they can?

[TestMangler]

OnDigital (which became ITV Digital) was the easiest to crack. Probably the reason they went bust in such a big way :-)

A monthly subscription, including Sky sports and movies, at the time was about £55 per month. A blank card could be had for about £4 and a reader/writer for about £25. Codes appeared monthly on t'interweb within seconds of expiring. Was NOT a well thought through business model

[VectraMan]

OnDigital (which became ITV Digital) was the easiest to crack. Probably the reason they went bust in such a big way :-)

That and the fact you'd lose the signal if a leaf fell off a tree anywhere within a 1 mile radius.

[TestMangler]

That and the fact you'd lose the signal if a leaf fell off a tree anywhere within a 1 mile radius.

Worked Ok for me, but I couldn't really complain if it didn't

I remember reading a newspaper interview with some exec just after they died. They'd paid some stupid amount of money for a PPV Man U game and the exec said that for the cost of putting the game on, they could have flown the subscribers to the game, put them up in hotels and given them a grand each in spending money and lost a lot less on the deal. Meanwhile, a couple of million people watched it on cloned cards

[PerfectStorm]

Surprised no ones cracked the RFID chips to get through the oyster card readers.
If credit cards can be cloned surly they can?

The old oysters were hackable - the balance is stored on the card. That's the reason there's a big push to get everyone onto Contactless.

[Pogle]

My Virgin trains First Class tickets are emailed to me and I print them out at home.
They look really easy to copy, I'd be amazed if people weren’t already forging them.

[JRCT]

The first thing that should have made the BTP suspicious is that someone from Doncaster was travelling First Class.

[psychocandy]

Do they not have a magnetic strip for the barriers? I thought that's how it worked.

and it doesnt work half the time.

Buy weekly ticket on train and it doesnt work until about the last day of use. Right PITA. Ticket gates just glance at it and open it for you.

[Batcher]

OnDigital (which became ITV Digital) was the easiest to crack. Probably the reason they went bust in such a big way :-)

A monthly subscription, including Sky sports and movies, at the time was about £55 per month. A blank card could be had for about £4 and a reader/writer for about £25. Codes appeared monthly on t'interweb within seconds of expiring. Was NOT a well thought through business model

The theory was that SKY had a lab in Israel for new technology/encryption and they had been tasked with cracking the OnDigital codes. Once it was done they set if free on t'internet to bring down their competitor.