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by tn1 1950 days ago
Many of these NFC tags may also be rewritable if the original authors neglected to lock them
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Probably not, Australian public transport authorities learned that lesson the hard way pretty early on when at least one metropolitan area issued completely unlocked and unencrypted NFC travel cards that allowed you to just issue yourself money.
Sure, but those were the travel cards. Likely the marketing department is in charge of these signs, perhaps even outsourced to some agency, who may not consider this