<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ryan Castellucci <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.castellucci@gmail.com">ryan.castellucci@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Josh Myer <<a href="mailto:josh@joshisanerd.com">josh@joshisanerd.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Ryan<br>
> Castellucci <<a href="mailto:ryan.castellucci@gmail.com">ryan.castellucci@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Security note: Do not post pictures of your keys on the internet.<br>
>> Copies can be made from photos. :(<br>
><br>
> Security note: do not use locks you can buy at Discount Builder/Ace/Lowes<br>
> for anything you care about. There exist tools called "lock picks."<br>
> They're a hell of a lot faster and less fussy than duplicating keys based<br>
> on measuring the pads seen in photos.<br>
<br>
</div>Different techniques have different use cases. Just because lockpicks<br>
and bump keys exist doesn't mean that other techniques such as<br>
impressioning and decoding lack merit.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, where did I say anything even _vaguely_ like "other techniques lack merit"? Oh, wait, I didn't.</div><div><br></div><div>
Warning people off posting pictures of their keys because a picture of your kwikset can allow someone to make a copy of it is inane, since it takes less time to pick the lock than it does to do the image manipulation and cut the key.</div>
<div> </div><div>Threat modeling--it's what's for breakfast.</div><div>-- </div></div>Josh Myer 650.248.3796<br> <a href="mailto:josh@joshisanerd.com">josh@joshisanerd.com</a><br>