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dst - I'm not sure if 'easier' yet, certainly it will require a change research methods used and i've been thinking about it alot.
One of the main purposes of ticket offices is to give tourists directions to Buckingham palace but they also serve an important secondary function of barrier use enforcement.
I can certainly forsee a large rise in occurrences of tailgating, barrier jumping and my personal favorite yanking open the manual gate.
I theorise that TFL believe the cost benefits will outweigh this and will attempt to counter this behavior with an increase in the use of undercover / spot checks by revenue protection employees probably working on a commission basis.
But loopholes to spotchecks some travelers can simply use exist.
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Same station exits.*
Simply check in and then out again of the same station within 2 minutes and you are free to use the entire oystercard network for that day, only having to pay the minimum fare.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14870.aspx
As the oystercard system 'assumes' guilt upon doing this any spotcheck would show you as having valid card to travel, the money is recredited by a batch process at the end of the day.
Isatb - yes sorry above post was an outragous prefriday troll