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Old 12-04-2013 | 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by howardcano
MyLaps probably wouldn't disable all of the old AMB transponders at the same time. I think they are too smart for that. They might only disable AMB transponders that have been cloned, and the clones themselves. Here's how:

The new decoders can upload information to MyLaps, including transponder numbers. It would be relatively simple for MyLaps to check the data for identical transponder numbers being used in two different places on the same day or weekend, then make a list of these identical transponder numbers and download that list to the decoders. The decoders will then ignore those transponders. Any AMB transponders that haven't been cloned (or have not yet been detected as such by MyLaps) would continue to function. If the original AMB and the clone of it are not being used by the same person, then those people would just assume that their transponders had finally died, and never catch on to what really happened.

Will MyLaps do this? Who knows? But if they do, you read it here first.
I don't know, but that is why I have told the guys running races at my club to never, ever, let our decoder be connected to the internet.
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