What use a smart card reader?
from BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 03:22
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31922512

I recently picked up an older but perfectly adequate HP Z Book Firefly with a built-in smart card reader and I’m wondering what possible use is this little bit of tech? Can I, like, auth with my credit card or whatever? (mostly joking, I briefly looked at the PAM config for that and prefer my current hobbies lol)

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 03:54 next collapse

CAC cards

RYS@lemmy.zip on 18 Sep 04:24 next collapse

There are OpenPGP smart cards, which I used a long time ago since now there are USB dongles available that eliminate the need for a smart card reader and of course a lot of proprietary smart cards used in many companies for the same use cases: authentication, encryption, signatures, etc…

pelya@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 04:48 next collapse

Your laptop is a cash counter.

wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world on 18 Sep 12:04 collapse

leaves the laptop alone with a sheet of paper, a pen, and a bag of cash

comes back 4 hours later you haven’t done anything!

sets the money atop the laptop

ohh, cash counter, I get it now…

fullsquare@awful.systems on 18 Sep 06:29 next collapse

New-ish EU national IDs have NFC capability and certificate in them so you can probably sign something with that if you figure out how

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Sep 07:59 next collapse

You could get a bunch of the cheap EEPROM type smart cards and use them to launch programs or play music or something.

lurch@sh.itjust.works on 18 Sep 09:29 collapse

maybe works with pam_usb . it works with most removable media.