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AT&T Identifies Widespread Security Hole - In Locks

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Like this is new... by iceT · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's called a skeleton key. They've been around for a hundred year.

    The trick is not giving keys to people who will miss use them.

    Think of it as 'root' access for a physical lock?

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