Reply to: Contractor fare dodger

[vwdan]

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.

Yeah - I had an off peak ticket the other day. It didn't work in the morning because it was before 9:00am (My train was 9:11am and I wanted to go via the on-platform café), but it did let me out of the destination statation. Neither worked on the way back

Got given this a few months back, after I'd accidentally lost my ticket and managed to sweet talk the Ticket Office girl:



The Ticket Inspector admitted he'd never seen one before and gave it a very good look over!

[TestMangler]

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.

Slightly counter productive as they were also a customer, delivering Sky content to people who couldn't/wouldn't get a dish up, but their encryption was so bad (and only updated monthly) that there were guys in the Barra's standing in the street shouting 'get yer on digital cairds here, twenty five quid). A 'friend of mine' had a shop in Uddingston at the time and supplemented his takings selling and reprogramming OnDig cards in both a wholesale and retail capacity

[Batcher]

Not worth it nower days as they do random ticket inspection with portable ticket readers to track the journey.
"And I would have got away with it , if it were not for those pesky ticket readers"

Not up here. Still all done visually.

[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.

[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.

[JRCT]

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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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]

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

[CloudWalker]

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

[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

[VectraMan]

Some tickets don't go through though for whatever reason and you can just show them to a guard who will let you through after a visual check.

They'd probably get suspicious of someone doing that every day. Perhaps that's how he was caught.

[CloudWalker]

Some tickets don't go through though for whatever reason and you can just show them to a guard who will let you through after a visual check.

Not worth it nower days as they do random ticket inspection with portable ticket readers to track the journey.
"And I would have got away with it , if it were not for those pesky ticket readers"