{"id":631,"date":"2005-11-25T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/25\/biometric-usbs\/"},"modified":"2005-11-25T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-25T20:53:36","slug":"biometric-usbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/25\/biometric-usbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometric USBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways this seems like a bit of a kludge, but <a href=\"mailto:leslies@island.net\">I&#8217;m interested to hear<\/a> if anyone is seriously investigating using biometric USBs on their campus as a combined way of providing authentication to network resources, secure data storage for personal files, and customized &#8216;thicker&#8217; clients for end users. Given how low some of these prices are getting (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingusb.com\/hardware\/Storage\/USB_Flash_Drives.htm\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biometricsdirect.com\/Products\/SW\/ClipDrive.htm\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcconnection.com\/ProductDetail?sku=350208&amp;SourceID=k31366\">here<\/a>, and those are for buying them one at a time!) and the fact that some campuses seemed willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/0419\/p11s01-legn.html\">give away an ipod at the start of term<\/a>, it seems to me that it could be a worthwhile short-term (2-3 year) approach that could enable some interesting things at reasonably low cost. Or not. Just thinking out loud here. It&#8217;ll all make sense some day \ud83d\ude09 (<em>Apologies for not having comments enabled. The spammers brought that down almost a year ago and instead of trying to get MoveableType spam-proofed, which proved difficult, I am moving to WordPress in the new year. &#8216;Til then, <a href=\"mailto:leslies@island.net\">email<\/a> will have to do.)<\/em> &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some ways this seems like a bit of a kludge, but I&#8217;m interested to hear if anyone is seriously investigating using biometric USBs on their campus as a combined way of providing authentication to network resources, secure data storage for personal files, and customized &#8216;thicker&#8217; clients for end users. Given how low some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/25\/biometric-usbs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biometric USBs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37,242,325],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-biometrics","tag-mobility","tag-ple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}