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Re: Attendance/Scheduling Software
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Originally Posted by ASD20
I feel like this is a case of having a solution and trying to engineer a problem to fit it. Its a really cool idea, but it is way more complicated than necessary.
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From my end of things, not so much. The problem description definitely came before the solution; and the desire to eliminate forcing most users to remember to cooperate with the system is the motivation.
By putting a WiFi AP or similar device into a promiscuous mode, I think someone could capture all nearby WiFi traffic (or come close enough) and extract MAC addresses from that traffic. I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I think that doing that would get past the roadblocks Jon described.
However, to save power, and to burnish my tinfoil hat credentials, I frequently turn off my phone's WiFi when I don't need it. Anyone with WiFi turned off would slip through the cracks (and that takes us back to asking users to remember to cooperate with the attendance tracking system...).
Blake
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