Marketing.
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EVAN: It also monitors your toilet visits and scans your retinas every 80 seconds.
MANNY: Why’s that?
EVAN: Just making sure you’re still you! Some people might call that invasive, but we like to think is shows we care, see ya later.
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I really, really wonder what he looks like now.
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I can’t help but think about the possibilities here. Students can coalesce into pools, where ids are randomly circulating among those badges in the pool, using them as hosts. But then the counterattack to that might be for the system to recognize that a student can’t magically disappear from one place and reappear in a different place without time to get there, so that anomaly would identify the subversion. So the counter-counter-attack would be to semi-randomly circulate the ids only to other host badges that are within walking distance from the previous host. But then the counter-counter-counter attack might be to isolate random walks among the students, which would be a highly unusual occurance in real life. So the counter-counter-counter-counter attack would be to choose a virtual destination at random, and hop the ids in a semi-directed path among random hosts that happen to be in the direction of that destination. Sounds like a very fun project–and eminently doable!
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True, but what are the odds that the system is sophisticated enough to check this?
My money is on re-used code from a simple inventory system like for a library or something like that.
Reminds me of the coed visitation policy I heard about about MSOE back in the day.
All the girls had to be OUT of the guy’s dorms after 10pm. NO Exceptions. All visitors logged, doors knocked on at 10pm, etc.
A friend of my friend there was a beefy hockey player whose girlfriend was quite petite. They got around this policy by having her get in his hockey bag, and him hauling the bag one-handed through the lobby into the elevator.
I’m not sure which of the deserves the award for this scheme. Possibly both.
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Quite a bit less dangerous than climbing the side of one’s girlfriend’s dorm and in her window!
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Well all they need is much more CCTV, every student to wear a uniquely numbered T-shirt (large number, back and front) and an awful lot of average speed cameras. It works well (/s) on the roads here in UK. 
ah, those clever kids. Gotta love the nerds 
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