<p dir="ltr">As much as rfid has inherent security issues, it makes giving people access easy. </p>
<p dir="ltr">If it's a standard key then you have no idea who is coming in or out. Getting another set cut is expensive and can be problematic, and if someone looses their key or stops paying membership then I've got to replace the locks and 30+ sets of keys. </p>
<p dir="ltr">With rfid, I know who's coming in when, new cards can be added for pennies and little effort and it's extremely easy to disable a single members access should it be needed. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from a touchscreen; apologies for typos and berivity. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 16 Jun 2015 01:47, "Brett Dikeman" <<a href="mailto:brett.dikeman@gmail.com">brett.dikeman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>A hackerspace I belong to has probably hit the point of needing an alarm and access control system. I'm wondering what good solutions have been created - what the "state of the art" is in hackerspace security these days.<br><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Doorlock" target="_blank">https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Doorlock</a><br><br></div><div>It'd be awesome if that were updated with any new projects - and if some of the existing writeups could be updated or better documented; a number of them say "this writeup needs to get updated" or the writeup is super sparse. This is a very common and basic need, so more info/guidance would be very beneficial. Not just what people have made, but tradeoffs, lessons learned, mistakes made, etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also: why do so many of these hackerspace access control systems use RFID / proximity cards? Hackerspace people are among the most likely to know how laughable security is with them, yet so many hackerspaces use them? It's...weird.<br><br></div><div>-B<br></div></div>
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