Re:Please scan my towel
by imgabe on Friday March 11, 2016 @08:58AM
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Couldn't you just put a push button switch there with the same effect? Something like the large square handicap accessible switches for powered doors in public buildings.
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The rfid tag also acts as an authentication/authorization token. Not a very good one, but not worse than a key either.
Re:Please scan my towel
by Godel_unicode on Friday March 11, 2016 @07:15PM
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Slight quibble: the token is just authentication. The authorization is done by the pad. Granted, the current scheme grants the access authorization to any authenticated tag, but that could change if butt-thentication took off.