[sudo-access] Door Card Reader Issues

[Matthew Senate]

Hey all,

Not sure if anybody worked on the door, but it seems to be more reliable at
the moment.

The culprit for the successful error code swipe was an incorrect card type
(1/5) for Phat Beets. I commented it out of the white list for now.

In general, we shouldn't be adding cards without being able to verify they
are a compatible type (narrow, single-track magnetic stripe more like a
gift card or debit card.

// Matt

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue, btw. I swapped out the reader with
> another and the issue seems to be the same in terms of scanning unreliably.
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>
>> 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 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.
>>>
>>>       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
>>>
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