No. My point is merely that this new innovation (putting the barcode on a cell phone) does not make it any more difficult to reuse the ticket, since it's the same exact system on a different medium. The article seems to suggest that putting the barcode on a cell phone increases the security, somehow.
This is no different from paper tickets with barcodes that are scanned at the gate.
Exactly.. so it's just as easy to counterfiet, pilfer, use repeatedly, or otherwise scam the hell out of... that's good!
How does this combat counterfieting, pilfering and repeat usage? Are they saying a txt message is harder to generate than a realistic looking ticket?? Or a cell phone is harder to steal? Or that they're going to rip your cell phone in half once you pass through the gate? I can see some convenience advantages but I really don't understand that statement.
Actually I think you're wrong about the executives... if there's a ton of people going to the lower floors, and a handful of executives going to the 51st floor, the smart elevator would travel between the lower floors several times before it decided demand was high enough to make the trip to the 51st floor. Unless we're assuming the executives have some type of override, which they would certainly demand. Then naturally if you were the peon, you would hack into the elevator and leave the executives trapped up there all night long! I like this smart elevator.
There are plenty of ways to give yourself a backdoor that are less complex and less annoying than this. Why make a backdoor that is obviously going to be discovered sooner or later? Seems to me you want to put some sort of functionality in there that is NEVER going to be accidentally found by someone who is just screwing around with thier printer or whatever. Then again, it's not like microsoft hasn't made any dumb security decisions in the past...
Also note Symantec fixed the problem once they were caught, whereas Sony continued to deny any wrongdoing.
Of course, Symantec could have fixed the problem BEFORE they got caught, but where's the fun in that?
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No. My point is merely that this new innovation (putting the barcode on a cell phone) does not make it any more difficult to reuse the ticket, since it's the same exact system on a different medium. The article seems to suggest that putting the barcode on a cell phone increases the security, somehow.
This is no different from paper tickets with barcodes that are scanned at the gate. Exactly.. so it's just as easy to counterfiet, pilfer, use repeatedly, or otherwise scam the hell out of... that's good!
How does this combat counterfieting, pilfering and repeat usage? Are they saying a txt message is harder to generate than a realistic looking ticket?? Or a cell phone is harder to steal? Or that they're going to rip your cell phone in half once you pass through the gate? I can see some convenience advantages but I really don't understand that statement.
I think you would have to enter your 100m dash time for that to be possible.
Actually I think you're wrong about the executives... if there's a ton of people going to the lower floors, and a handful of executives going to the 51st floor, the smart elevator would travel between the lower floors several times before it decided demand was high enough to make the trip to the 51st floor. Unless we're assuming the executives have some type of override, which they would certainly demand. Then naturally if you were the peon, you would hack into the elevator and leave the executives trapped up there all night long! I like this smart elevator.
There are plenty of ways to give yourself a backdoor that are less complex and less annoying than this. Why make a backdoor that is obviously going to be discovered sooner or later? Seems to me you want to put some sort of functionality in there that is NEVER going to be accidentally found by someone who is just screwing around with thier printer or whatever. Then again, it's not like microsoft hasn't made any dumb security decisions in the past...
Also note Symantec fixed the problem once they were caught, whereas Sony continued to deny any wrongdoing. Of course, Symantec could have fixed the problem BEFORE they got caught, but where's the fun in that?