[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks

[Jake]

i would like a link to the arduino-based hack, i am curious as to what's 
inside the marker.  I was guessing it was just a battery or something 
simple like that, knowing how much lock makers rely on security by 
obscurity. (which doesn't work as well these days)

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, John Withers wrote:

> It isn't fake, it's a real thing. It is just a casing on the arduino
> based hack that was reported a couple of months ago. Gets a new life
> cause someone put it in a dry erase marker housing which made it good
> tabloid headline fodder.
>
> j
>
> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 15:01 -0700, Jake wrote:
>> what, was it fake or something?
>>
>> it looked to me like the marker had a barrel connector on it which plugs
>> into the hotel lock on the bottom and makes it open.  I can't say i'm very
>> surprised about it.
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