idea: security badge consolidation?

Andreas Jellinghaus aj at dungeon.inka.de
Sat Dec 9 08:39:34 CET 2006


> On 12/1/06, justin hugh daly <justinhughdaly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i work with multiple clients and vendors, and have amassed a good
>> number of security badges.
>>
>> i was curious about the feasibility of being able to program the
>> transmitter to send out  the appropriate badge id based on location?

well. that would defeat the whole security purpose of those badges -
if you can record what they send and play that.

technically it is possible to implement that of course. unless the
badge is smart - e.g. does some rsa crypto for authentication.
but very, very few people do that.

Andreas




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