Re: Electronic Hotel Door Locks Now Pickable

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Blackbird Built for Speed Premium join:2005-01-14 Fort Wayne, IN kudos:3 Reviews: ·Frontier Communi..	reply to DownTheShore Re: Electronic Hotel Door Locks Now Pickable I recall a thread in these forums some time ago about that exploit, just after the July conference... but I'm not able to activate the right magic decoder ring combination in the DSLR search-function to located it. I believe there was speculation at the time about how long it would take for the "lab" exploit to hit the real world of criminality. The answer now appears to be in: about 4 months. -- “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” A. de Tocqueville
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DownTheShore Stronger Than The Storm Premium join:2003-12-02 Beautiful NJ kudos:12 Reviews: ·Verizon Online DSL	I guessed that it had probably been mentioned here when the exploit was first discovered, but figured folks would like to know that it's now in play, especially: Since his discovery, the technique has been refined by other security researchers, with one squeezing all the electronics to unlock a door into the body of a marker pen.
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EGeezer Go Cats Premium join:2002-08-04 Midwest kudos:8	reply to Blackbird said by Blackbird: I recall a thread in these forums some time ago about that exploit, just after the July conference... Here 'tis - »Black Hat 2012 - 4 million hotel rooms at risk And a hack report from last month, »Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks -- Buckle Up. It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car.
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