Hey all, I just talked to Tavio from Phat Beets, he had a few cards that did not seem to be working. I tested all three and got unreliable results. I got every combination of both light (green blink, green solid, red blink) and failure / success of opening latch. Especially of note, is that one card of a type I'm fairly certain does not work correctly, when swiped incorrectly, creates a red light, but also successfully opens the latch. This gives me the impression that an error code (rather than a card's unique code) has been incorrectly added to the whitelist! And overall, swiping is incredibly inconsistent even for my own card, which I know to have worked well for a long time. I'm going to buy at least one usb magnetic card reader right now, please join me in fixing this system so it works consistently, reliably, and securely ASAP. // Matt

i have a box of magnetic card readers and door latch things, they are in the mycology room of CCL unless marc moved them to the locked storage behind it. there are like 2 usb magcard readers in there. On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Matthew Senate wrote: Hey all, > > I just talked to Tavio from Phat Beets, he had a few cards that did not > seem to be working. I tested all three and got unreliable results. I got > every combination of both > light (green blink, green solid, red blink) and failure / success of > opening latch. > > Especially of note, is that one card of a type I'm fairly certain does > not work correctly, when swiped incorrectly, creates a red light, but also > successfully opens the > latch. This gives me the impression that an error code (rather than a > card's unique code) has been incorrectly added to the whitelist! > > And overall, swiping is incredibly inconsistent even for my own card, > which I know to have worked well for a long time. > > I'm going to buy at least one usb magnetic card reader right now, please > join me in fixing this system so it works consistently, reliably, and > securely ASAP. > > // Matt > > > > >

please record the exact time and date when you successfully enter with a red light. that means that a code which is an error code is entered as someone's card, and needs to be blacklisted and removed. -jake On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Matthew Senate wrote: For the card that I can mis-swipe to generate a red light but still open > the door, I have not seen any failed reads. However, when the card seems to > be read correctly and > the green light flashes, the door does not unlatch. > > Go figure. > > Will look for other readers right now. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote: > i have a box of magnetic card readers and door latch things, they > are in the mycology room of CCL unless marc moved them to the locked > storage behind it. there > are like 2 usb magcard readers in there. > > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Matthew Senate wrote: > > Hey all, > > I just talked to Tavio from Phat Beets, he had a few cards > that did not seem to be working. I tested all three and got unreliable > results. I got > every combination of both > light (green blink, green solid, red blink) and failure / > success of opening latch. > > Especially of note, is that one card of a type I'm fairly > certain does not work correctly, when swiped incorrectly, creates a red > light, but also > successfully opens the > latch. This gives me the impression that an error code > (rather than a card's unique code) has been incorrectly added to the > whitelist! > > And overall, swiping is incredibly inconsistent even for my > own card, which I know to have worked well for a long time. > > I'm going to buy at least one usb magnetic card reader right > now, please join me in fixing this system so it works consistently, > reliably, and > securely ASAP. > > // Matt > > > > > > >