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0 pointsJach13y ago0 comments

Increased safety, increased privacy[1], and more efficiency.

[1] My school uses RFID-equipped ID badges, unfortunately they don't use them for attendance. (They should--right now people just sign an attendance sheet.) But one of their nicest uses is restrictive access based on degree program. Only computer engineers can get in the computer engineering lab, only masters' students can get in labs dedicated for masters' students, and so on.

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EliRivers13y ago

I recall one of the most interesting and intellectually-stimulating aspects of university was going into lectures/labs/libraries of other degree subjects.

Restricting access like this is not to increase privacy, whatever that means in this context (what, you only want privacy from people not doing the same degree?); it's a means of putting everyone into neat little boxes to make admin easier, and an attempt to placate the almighty Gods of Security.

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