[sudo-access] Door Card Reader Issues

[Jake]

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.
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> Go figure.
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> Will look for other readers right now.
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Jake <jake at 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.
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>       On Thu, 10 Dec 2015, Matthew Senate wrote:
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>             Hey all,
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>             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.
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>             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!
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>             And overall, swiping is incredibly inconsistent even for my own card, which I know to have worked well for a long time.
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>             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.
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>             // Matt
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