Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys

An anonymous reader writes "The New York Daily News reports that a startup company in Manhattan is putting robotic key copying machines in 7-Eleven stores. The machines can automatically create physical copies of common apartment and office keys. What's more interesting is that they allow users to save digital copies of their keys, which can later be created when the original is lost or the user is locked out of their home."

Comments

Public keys

[ChumpusRex2003]

Could this be the first case of public key encryption getting broken?

Re:What could possibly go wrong?

[Anonymous Coward]

What can go wrong is when you lose the key to the safe that contains the password to access the digital copy of the key to the safe.

Re:What could possibly go wrong?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well how long before that database draws a subpoena?

A subpoena? How quaint.

Re:What could possibly go wrong?

[Nukenbar]

Locks also keep homeless people from shitting in my car.