AT&T Identifies Widespread Security Hole - In Locks

__roo writes "The New York Times has an article [free registration required] about a researcher at AT&T Labs Research who has discovered a little-known vulnerability in many locks that lets a person create a copy of the master key for an entire building by starting with any key from that building, and it requires little more than a file and a few key blanks."

Comments

of course

[Joe the Lesser]

Every programmer puts backdoors in his code so he can wreak havoc when he's laid off.
Why should the lock business be any different?

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