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AT&T Identifies Widespread Security Hole - In Locks

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 23, 2003 @12:49AM from the analogies-reversed dept.

__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."

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Re:I'm locked out of the article.. by Meleneth · 2003-01-23 00:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I would never post a message either.

What are you implying, sir?

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Re:HOW TO DO IT - New moderation reporting? by AyeRoxor! · 2003-01-23 04:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Moderations: 40% Insightful, 70% Informative"

I'm assuming the percents refer to the number of people who have moderated this post. But I still don't see how this makes any sense.
40 percent of people who moderated this post think it is insightful, while 70% find it informative? Since this is over 100% it implies that some person(s) moderated this both insightful and informative. I didn't think it was possible for a mod to moderate a post more than once. This is screwy..