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Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] CM400 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The latest, deluxe end point of these time and attendance tchotchkes and apps is something like Austin-headquartered HID’s OmniKey platform. Designed for factories, hospitals, universities and offices, this is essentially an all-encompassing RFID log-in and security system for employees, via smart cards, smartphone wallets, and wearables.

[–] sighofannoyance 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

how do they prevent spoofing of those rfid keys?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To oversimplify, they use the same type of encryption as you might see on a chip-enabled credit card.

Cloning the card isn't enough, you'd also have to clone a specialized key-signing chip to correctly respond to authentication requests.

[–] sighofannoyance 2 points 5 days ago

Quite interesting, if I may say so.....

[–] CM400 2 points 5 days ago

No idea, I just quoted the article since I hate those clickbait headlines.