The exam sucked. But on the other hand here’s something fun. My school has HID Global™ brand RFID access to all of the buildings. Some rooms actually use a magnetic stripe, which is on that same card. The school says not to mar the cards at all, but fuck that, because you can totally drill through an RFID card if you are smart about it. I don’t want to lose my key or ID anymore, so I drilled through an old ID I had lost and then found again, and discovered that it was still reading. So then I did it to my new one. Since I couldn’t find any good info on acceptable drilling locations on HID RFID cards, here is my guide. Drill where I did, and you’ll probably be OK.
The hole is centered in the middle of the card vertically, 7.5mm from the left-hand side when viewing the face with the magnetic strip up, with the stripe on top. I hate millimeters, but that’s the only ruler I have on hand.
There are probably a lot of other acceptable locations; what you have to avoid is cutting through the loop antenna that goes around the edge of the card, and cutting through the chip and wires leading to it. These are, I think, on the opposite side of the card from where I drilled, in vertical line with the HID logo.
Really hoping HID doesn’t dump hatorade upon me on account of that image existing. it’s their trademark, hence the “™” earlier. I am no stooge.
