Somewhat related: last New Year the company I work for gave us, the employees, presents. Something I assumed to be a USB disk. Couple weeks ago I had to migrate from my old personal laptop to the desktop I finally put together and needed a USB key to put an OS on the new computer.
I recalled I had what I thought was a spare USB key... plugged it in only to discover it wasn't a USB disk. Wasted some time trying to figure out what it was only to discover it was some form of electronic key. Not sure how exactly it works... but, of course, Linux had no drivers for it, so it couldn't even recognize the device.
I tried to think about any possible uses I could want from it and whether it's worth the effort of trying to find an out-of-kernel driver for it... and after some time pondering this idea, I realized I have no use for this thing. There's no scenario in which I would like to have a device to perform this function. So, bundled it with the broken pieces of my old laptop and together they went to the garbage dump.
Passkey would be virtually the same thing. I cannot imagine what problem does it solve, no matter how it works. Everything about this idea seems like a bad idea. So, I'm kind of happy it's a shattered dream now. Better late then never, I guess.
I recalled I had what I thought was a spare USB key... plugged it in only to discover it wasn't a USB disk. Wasted some time trying to figure out what it was only to discover it was some form of electronic key. Not sure how exactly it works... but, of course, Linux had no drivers for it, so it couldn't even recognize the device.
I tried to think about any possible uses I could want from it and whether it's worth the effort of trying to find an out-of-kernel driver for it... and after some time pondering this idea, I realized I have no use for this thing. There's no scenario in which I would like to have a device to perform this function. So, bundled it with the broken pieces of my old laptop and together they went to the garbage dump.
Passkey would be virtually the same thing. I cannot imagine what problem does it solve, no matter how it works. Everything about this idea seems like a bad idea. So, I'm kind of happy it's a shattered dream now. Better late then never, I guess.