Why TfL's contactless payment's 'perfectly secure' infrastructure is propped up by Microsoft .NET and not Oracle

Charlee Gothard
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Computing sits down with a key player in contactless, to discuss the technology behind it, as well as - inevitably - card clash

TfL's contactless payment scheme for bank cards is now just over six months old and has suffered no outages in that time. Director of customer experience Shashi Verma maintains that the system's...

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