[Noisebridge-discuss] Bag Porn - What's in your bag? - Monday Jan 25th 19:30.

[Josh Myer]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ryan Castellucci <
ryan.castellucci at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Ryan
> > Castellucci <ryan.castellucci at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Security note:  Do not post pictures of your keys on the internet.
> >> Copies can be made from photos. :(
> >
> > Security note: do not use locks you can buy at Discount Builder/Ace/Lowes
> > for anything you care about.  There exist tools called "lock picks."
> >  They're a hell of a lot faster and less fussy than duplicating keys
> based
> > on measuring the pads seen in photos.
>
> Different techniques have different use cases.  Just because lockpicks
> and bump keys exist doesn't mean that other techniques such as
> impressioning and decoding lack merit.
>
>
Sorry, where did I say anything even _vaguely_ like "other techniques lack
merit"?  Oh, wait, I didn't.

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.

Threat modeling--it's what's for breakfast.
-- 
Josh Myer 650.248.3796
josh at joshisanerd.com
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