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douglas9 (762 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:50 AM Original message |
Tracking devices used in school badges |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. The tags remind them of George Orwell's Big Brother |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's an RFID chip |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. And how secure is that database? |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. How secure does it need to be? To whom would the information be useful |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. You think that's all there would be? |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. And what additional nefarious plots does in-school location awareness facilitate? |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I cited the security or lack thereof of the database. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. And I asked you the simple question - why does the RFID DB need to be secure? |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Obviously you have a reading comprehension problem. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Not going to trade insults with you. My original question stands. |
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Ohio Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. It is almost certainly it's own table |
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david_vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I don't. |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. That's about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Bit of a stretch |
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PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 01:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. lolz |
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zipplewrath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Depends |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. might as well imlant them |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
16. Neither W or Cheney had these things. Look how they turned out!!! |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. Can't think of a downside -- many benefits, though. |
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hayu_lol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 01:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Wonder how long it will take a 'puter' literate student body ... |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 01:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Don't students already know where each other are during most of the school day? |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Are you a screen writer? Send that to Disney. |
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Tsiyu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 02:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. And if teachers get lazy, using a quick scan to take attendance |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
31. Doesn't even have to be computer literate.. |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
23. harmless, passive, and not a threat |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 03:15 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. We use RFID's in my industry |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Sure, paper doesn't often walk around |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. But (barring a window escape) you'd know they were IN the classroom. |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. So different from taking attendance the old way? |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:51 AM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Attendance was only taken during homeroom in my HS. |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 05:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Oh, BTW - you'd only know he/she entered |
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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 05:54 AM Response to Reply #29 |
34. Agreed, but this is still better information than |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. First reaction: Sounds ok to me if they are only used on campus. |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-11-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. A school around here uses them |
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Heywood J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-12-10 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
35. My concern here isn't the privacy issue. |
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