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		roel_v on March 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please scan my towel The rfid tag also acts as an authentication/authorization token. Not a very good one, but not worse than a key either.

Godel_unicode on March 12, 2016 [–]

Slight quibble: the token is just authentication. The authorization is done by the pad. Granted, the current scheme grants the access authorization to any authenticated tag, but that could change if butt-thentication took off.

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