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> I remember my first time having a meeting at Facebook and observing none of the doors had keyholes and thinking "hope their badge system never goes down"

Every internet-connected physical system needs to have a sensible offline fallback mode. They should have had physical keys, or at least some kind of offline RFID validation (e.g. continue to validate the last N badges that had previously successfully validated).



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