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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. la la la by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


  2. Re:I'm locked out of the article.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Step 1: Collect underpants!

  3. Idiots! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In August, a suit filed by the parents of two girls claimed that McDonald's and two of its restaurants in the Bronx failed to disclose clearly and conspicuously the ingredients and effects of its food, much of which is high in fat, salt, sugar and cholesterol. The plaintiffs argued that McDonald's should therefore be held accountable for the girls' obesity, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and elevated cholesterol. The girls are Jazlyn Bradley and Ashley Pelman. Bradley, 19, is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and weighs 270 pounds. Pelman, 14, is 4-foot-10 and 170 pounds. Bradley said that an McMuffin for breakfast and a Big Mac meal for dinner was her regular diet. Pelman preferred the Happy Meals and used to eat at McDonald's three or four times a week. Bradley's father, Israel, said he never saw anything in the Bronx restaurants that informed him of the food's ingredients. "I always believed McDonald's was healthy for my children," he said in an affidavit.

  4. moron whoreabull deception being spaketh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    buy Godless ?pr? woredoggIEs, onto the huddling masses, over at the nyt.

    billwg - 07:31am Jan 23, 2003 EST (#6089 of 6090)

    1/23/03 3:13am

    If you look at Microsoft's filings for the appeal you will see that Motz actually dismissed the charges against Microsoft on the very same issue that he based the injunction on. When Microsoft moved to then dismiss the injunction as well, Motz then re-activated the charges, i.e. reversed himself, without any stated reason to do so. Motz is apparently another clown like Jackson who finds himself suddenly in the limelight and trips himself up trying for a photo opportunity.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=U TF-8&q=microsoft+%22bill+weisgerber%22&btnG=Google +Search

  5. AAAHHHHH!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shut this man up! Use the DMCA! Use something!! AAAAHHHH!!!! Security through obscurity! SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY!! Throw him in jail!! Burn him!! BURN HIM!!!