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by pixl97 415 days ago
And more problems created.

Now you have to have another system that decodes the random words to human usable words. Is that information going to be stored all in one system? Is each team going to be responsible for the translation? How is that going to be protected from information loss?

I work with systems like this so, yea, it can be done. But it cannot be done trivially.

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As someone who has been in the IT department for a company, this is a basic and trivial function of an asset tracking system. It’s literally just matching the serial number or computer name of the asset to the employee.