{"id":392,"date":"2003-12-31T05:34:24","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T09:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/12\/31\/no-need-to-swipe-proximity-cards\/"},"modified":"2003-12-31T05:34:24","modified_gmt":"2003-12-31T09:34:24","slug":"no-need-to-swipe-proximity-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2003\/12\/31\/no-need-to-swipe-proximity-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"No Need to Swipe &#8211; Proximity Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a541'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MIT has begun to switch faculty and students from magnetic swipe identification cards to &#8220;proximity&#8221; cards readable from a distance, but has yet to address the security concerns with both the new system and the old system as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Like the replacement of the student services card with the original, multipurpose, magnetic-stripe MIT Card in the spring of 1994, the shift to a new technology raises concerns over security and privacy.The possibility of covertly reading and copying the cards, even as they rest in other students&#8217; pockets, remains a concern. Nobody has demonstrated this, but nobody is prepared to say it is impossible or even particularly difficult for MIT&#8217;s electrical engineering majors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since [proximity cards] can be read at a distance, someone could set up a bogus ID reader in Lobby 7 to scan ID&#8217;s as people pass,&#8221; said Chris T. Lesniewski-Laas G, who proposed a replacement for the MIT Card in 1999.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www-tech.mit.edu\/V123\/N62\/62card.62n.html\" target=\"_blank\">Art<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT has begun to switch faculty and students from magnetic swipe identification cards to &#8220;proximity&#8221; cards readable from a distance, but has yet to address the security concerns with both the new system and the old system as a whole. Like the replacement of the student services card with the original, multipurpose, magnetic-stripe MIT Card [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}