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Well I'll be the constructive voice. I like it. You should be able to find email address in the corporate directory services, it's not like people are going to

by mpyne 13y ago

Well I'll be the constructive voice. I like it. You should be able to find email address in the corporate directory services, it's not like people are going to memorize them from looking at a badge. We already have business cards or mobile devices w/ NFC if it's necessary to transfer the email address in a persistent form. Plus having names instead of email serves the more-important purpose of allowing people to more easily socially interact in meetings, social gatherings, etc. Since it would almost be impossible to completely anonymize the purpose of the badge (especially with the request to return to Microsoft) using the current visual branding certainly beats using the 1988 visual branding. I can't speak to "Former Metro" branding but it certainly looks pleasing enough.

munin 13y ago
many institutions anonymize their badges by instructing the finder to post the badge to a PO box number, or eliding any recovery information and locking lost badges out.
derefr 13y ago
> We already have business cards or mobile devices w/ NFC if it's necessary to transfer the email address in a persistent form. Probably not with NFC itself--it'd be somewhat physically awkward to tap a card on a lanyard around your neck against someone's phone. But since a conference is exactly the sort of situation in which you want to leak contact information promiscuously, putting RFID chips in the cards would work well. Or just putting QR codes on them. (Doing it with QR codes would actually serve a great double-purpose, if you got the app for it right: you'd say "hold still for a contact photo!" and then get a record of their face and their contact information, associated together.)
- derekp7 13y ago
  One issue with QR code on the badge, you train people to allow others to take a close up high resolution picture of their badges. And possibly getting close enough to get the RFID code off the badge so it can be completely cloned. Sounds like a security nightmare to me. Of course, the RFID can probably be read at a distance, but if so, why do the door plates need me to hold the badge right next to them to open the doors?
  - derefr 13y ago
    > Of course, the RFID can probably be read at a distance, but if so, why do the door plates need me to hold the badge right next to them to open the doors? RFID chips depend on the sensor sending the power for the reply. Low-power sensors require closer contact; high-power sensors can operate from a distance.
  - jmgrosen 13y ago
    Note that the badges are smart cards, not a (comparatively) dumb RFID chip with storage. Thus, they can't really be cloned, anyway.

by mpyne 13y ago

munin 13y ago

many institutions anonymize their badges by instructing the finder to post the badge to a PO box number, or eliding any recovery information and locking lost badges out.

derefr 13y ago

> We already have business cards or mobile devices w/ NFC if it's necessary to transfer the email address in a persistent form. Probably not with NFC itself--it'd be somewhat physically awkward to tap a card on a lanyard around your neck against someone's phone. But since a conference is exactly the sort of situation in which you want to leak contact information promiscuously, putting RFID chips in the cards would work well. Or just putting QR codes on them. (Doing it with QR codes would actually serve a great double-purpose, if you got the app for it right: you'd say "hold still for a contact photo!" and then get a record of their face and their contact information, associated together.)

derekp7 13y ago
One issue with QR code on the badge, you train people to allow others to take a close up high resolution picture of their badges. And possibly getting close enough to get the RFID code off the badge so it can be completely cloned. Sounds like a security nightmare to me. Of course, the RFID can probably be read at a distance, but if so, why do the door plates need me to hold the badge right next to them to open the doors?
- derefr 13y ago
  > Of course, the RFID can probably be read at a distance, but if so, why do the door plates need me to hold the badge right next to them to open the doors? RFID chips depend on the sensor sending the power for the reply. Low-power sensors require closer contact; high-power sensors can operate from a distance.
- jmgrosen 13y ago
  Note that the badges are smart cards, not a (comparatively) dumb RFID chip with storage. Thus, they can't really be cloned, anyway.