[Noisebridge-discuss] [Rack] RFID tag research

Naomi Most pnaomi at gmail.com
Sun May 11 20:15:47 UTC 2014


Open source helps with transparency as long as you trust the people
doing the deploying, and we're not giving everyone equal access to
that.

Sad to say, paranoia and conspiracy theories run deep in this community.

--Naomi


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Jeffrey Carl Faden
<jeffreyatw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I expect that this will be an extension to Baron, which is open-source.
> https://github.com/noisebridge/noisebridge-baron
>
> If people are uneasy about that, we plan on purchasing a bunch of RFID cards
> with no other data on them. They're super cheap.
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Naomi Most <pnaomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are deeper issues beyond the possibility of possibly corrupting
>> a card (and yeah, mistakes do happen).
>>
>> For instance, do we want to end up giving anyone the impression that
>> we might, even for a second, be collecting sensitive personal data?
>>
>> --Naomi
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Jeffrey Carl Faden
>> <jeffreyatw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I don't believe we intend this to be a read/write system.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Norman Bradley <pryankster at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> My concern with using Clipper Cards is that if this is setup as a
>> >> read/write system it could damage the card losing the user transit
>> >> money or
>> >> even invalidating the card. Mistakes happen.
>> >>
>> >> You are entitled to your own opinion.
>> >> You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
>> >>
>> >> Norman
>> >>
>> >> On 5/10/2014 12:53 PM, Henner Zeller wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Ultimately, I'd like to offer that people can use their Clipper cards
>> >>> or
>> >>> whatever stuff they already have to use as a means of entry.
>> >>>
>> >>
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