{"id":3107,"date":"2004-07-08T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/msdn-connection-rfid\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T02:14:01","slug":"msdn-connection-rfid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3107","title":{"rendered":"MSDN Connection &#8211; RFID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first piece of correspondence from Microsoft yesterdat from their ISV programme. It included my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/australia\/msdn\/connection\/\">MSDN Connection<\/a> ID Card&#8230; There are some interesting implications though. Right now I am a <i>Recognised Developer<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.microsoft.com\/australia\/msdn\/connection\/_images_default_\/df21a6588ba24348.gif?w=605\" align=\"right\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The first implication is that they provide a whole lot of stickers to place on the card stating which User Group you wish to be associated with. As far as I can tell all these groups are free, and are sponsored by microsoft and companies. The one at Wollongong looks like it is the best for my needs. <\/p>\n<p>More importantly, when I got the card I was surprised. These days most cards have a magnetic strip, or bar code, or something. But all this one has is a number on the front &#8211; my MSDN Connection Number &#8211; and a small serial number on the back. Both are too small to be used for anything like access control or much else. <\/p>\n<p>I have seen cards where the Magnetic Strip has been hidden under a very thin layer of plastic. Normally you could look closely and find the stip, but nothing. Then I noticed a small deformation in the card on the top right corner of the card. It was about 5mm x 5mm. It is more on the front than the back. I have seen marks like this made with normal heat printing processes. So all was fine.<\/p>\n<p>All was fine until I visited the Wollongong NET User Group site, and found that Microsoft had provided an RFID reader. Ahh&#8230; So this is an RFID card. A Contactless card. Interesting privacy implications I would say&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first piece of correspondence from Microsoft yesterdat from their ISV programme. It included my MSDN Connection ID Card&#8230; There are some interesting implications though. Right now I am a Recognised Developer The first implication is that they &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/3107\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MSDN Connection &#8211; RFID<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cfmK-O7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}