Key Cards

Invitation

For this Monday Reading we will follow the path of the keycard system that opens the outside doors at a.pass. What does it mean when opening a door becomes part of a data-flow?

Exercises / Memories

Investigation of the a.pass keycard system.
Guided tour of the development of the belgian ID cards (confessions of a state security technician)
How to classify your own cards, between smartness and locked up

Texts

• Orit Halpern, Robert Mitchell, Bernard Dionysius Geogheghan, “The Smartness Mandate: Notes toward a Critique” (2017)
• Philip Agre, “Surveillance and Capture: Two models of Privacy” (1994)
• Lucas Silva Figueiredo et al., “Prepose: Privacy, Security and Reliability for Gesture-Based Programming”

Traces

• Etherpad notes
• Images, files and other traces

External Links

• A.PASS website: https://apass.be/keycards/
• Edit this page: https://stuff2233.club/padlife/p/mondayreadings_04_keycards

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