So apparently ASUS ROG is using these little NFC Enabled keytags you slot into specific laptops and prebuilt desktops to do things like apply overclock profiles, work as a security key for a “shadow” drive, apply lighting profiles, and more. And what’s awesome is obviously you can move them between computers.
Got me wondering now if readers are small enough to be able to be grafted onto laptops in a permanent or semi-permanent solution aftermarket so we/I could add similar functionality to my laptop or desktops. For instance it would be super awesome to have a reader under my mousepad at my desktop for 2FA or on the backside of my laptop screen.
I had the idea of sticking a bare ACR122U board under my laptop’s casing somehow, next to the mouse pad or something. I even remember someone reporting to have done exactly that on this here board (can’t find it again for the life of me though).
However, when I opened my laptop, space was at a premium: there was no way in hell I could have fitted an NFC reader in there. I have no idea how that other poster did it.
So what do you use yours for? I wanted to use the reader for my phone but sadly it doesn’t power up it’s NFC coil until after it’s already unlocked so there goes that.
About to be clear, there’s no password feature for the standard user memory. There are AFI EAS features that can be leveraged to the do have a password function to enable and disable those particular aspects of the icode chip, but I seriously doubt the laptop is using any of those features.
