On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Rev. Ben wrote:
Um. With a password or keycard, its difficult to know if its been stolen--if the keycard drops out of my pocket, I might not notice until I need it again. If my hand gets amputated, I'm fairly certain that I would notice quite quickly...
Reminded me of that scene in "Sneakers" where they steal the guy's keycard to get in. Risks of leaving that sort of thing in one's jacket pocket. Also, lots of high-tech places have at least one automated unattended/unmonitored entrance, so if you get a keycard, it's easy to get into the place (my current employer has unattended entrances with cameras). Even with the manned entrances, the ones with just a receptionist/secretary, they seldom check that the picture matches the one on the badge, so even if they've invalidated the badge, the receptionist will still more than likely let you into the place if you wave your keycard/badge around. Highlights the need to *still* concentrate on physical security and authentication - all the electronic toys just make security folks lazy. -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring