Re: MTA "Smart Card" phase 1 coming in September...

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From: Silas Warner
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 02:17

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Mike Kincaid wrote:
> 
> I think with a credit/ATM card these issues would be more justified, but
> a fare card?  The only possible fear is of MTC tracking where you go and
> when, and they've already informed the users that indeed they are, so
> that takes care of that.  I suppose one might as well fear what the BART
> gate does when you put your ticket into it.

When you put a ticket into a BART gate, you KNOW that something is
being done.  You might not know with a Translink card. 

Of course, as I said before, with a Translink card it hardly matters.
If something deducted value from your Translink card without your
knowledge, what would they do with it?  It can't be spent without
another Translink card.  And if the crooks have the technology to
read and write a Translink card, why bother with yours?  Why not
just write value onto theirs?

It would be a different story with credit cards, which need a complex
transaction protocol with serial numbers and passwords.  A few years
back, a crook placed a fake ATM in a shopping mall.  When shoppers
went to get some cash, the ATM would flash "NO CASH AVAILABLE" and
hand back their card.  Meanwhile it would suck off all the magnetic
stripe information, which the crooks used to make fake credit cards.
If that card were wireless, the crooks could have counterfeited it 
just by coming within a few inches.

							Silas Warner

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