Re: My teacher said I'm not smart enough for a smart card

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Sun, 9 Feb 2025 15:23:10 +0100, "Carlos
E.R." <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2025-02-09 12:02, Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> micky wrote on 2/8/25 12:01 PM:
>>>> My "new" renewed laptop has a smart-card reader, but no one has issued
>>>> me a smart card  (Apparently I'm not smart enough to deserve one.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there much chance, most likely if I have the case open for another
>>>> resson, I can take out the reader and put in something more useful, like
>>>> another SSD, or maybe a DVD drive?
>>>>
>>>> Dell Latitude 5510
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> It's a whole lot more simple than you percieved from the info(manual, on
>>> the net, etc.).
>>>    => One purchases an SDXC Card(aka smart-card) in a desired size,
>> 
>>    I think Dell's use (if that's actually what Dell does) of the term
>> "smart-card" when really referring to a SD card is needlessly confusing
>> and hence inappropriate. If they mean 'SD card', then *say* 'SD card'!

The slot is much bigger (wider and thicker) than an SD card uses.  It's
described as optional in the Dell manual.  I wonder if they put
something else there when they don't put that. 

>Smart cards are credit card size, and they are basically used for 
>identification.
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card
>
>My laptop has such a device, but I have not managed to make it work 
>under Linux (my laptop is Linux only). In Spain we have oficial identity 
>cards with a chip. Also some business use them to authorize or not a 
>user on a computer. They can also be used as encryption keys.
>
>The are not SD Cards.

Yes to all of that.  I think in the US, employees of some companies have
to use them to open doors and, I guess, turn on their own computer.  I
think they often hang them around their necks and may have their picture
on it too, so intruders can be caught just walking down the hall. No
place I ever worked had any security other than logging into the
terminal.  

alt.comp.hardware added.  It doesn't look as dormant as it looked when I
last looked.  My apology to sticks.