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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote   
   > Robert Bannister wrote   
   >> Rod Speed wrote   
   >>> Robert Bannister  wrote   
      
   >>>> I suppose we would all have to have locks and bars or maybe   
   >>>> even shutters on our windows to keep flying burglars out.   
      
   >>> Nar, just a decent RFID system that only lets yours   
   >>> in and visitors you choose to enable access to.   
      
   >> How will that stop burglars from breaking my windows?   
      
   > Or more modern burglars from just setting up a scanner   
   > outside your house, catching your RFID ping, and playing   
   > it back to your system so they can just walk in?   
      
   Not possible with the best of the authorisation systems.   
      
   > I don't trust RFID systems, I work too closely with them in   
   > parts of our business and I know how vulnerable they can be...   
      
   Not when they are designed properly.   
      
   > and how they can fail outside of that, too.   
      
   Anything can fail, even a physical key.   
      
   And anything can have a viable backup that handles the failures.   
      
   > (and I REALLY hate the modern trend for "no keys for your car".   
   > I LIKE a physical key system, thanks.)   
      
   Sure, but you are a dinosaur.   
      
   Plenty like you said that about phones when they first showed up too.   
      
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