Brian
08-12-2008, 10:17 AM
Hackin' high security locks with a credit card... (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13111/Hackin+high+security+locks+with+a+credit+card/)
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With all the hacks going on this weekend at DefCon, the world's largest annual hacker convention, perhaps the most embarrassingly easy to crack was Medeco's high-security locks. According to a group of security researchers, all you need to get into an Medeco M3 lock, used in sensitive facilities such as the White House and the Pentagon, is a low-res image of someone's key and a credit card.
The researchers took a photograph of a Medeco key, printed the image onto a label and used the label as a cut-out guide for reshaping the plastic of the credit card. Voila; State secrets here we come! Any credit card plastic could be used to create a simulated key, they said.
If I paid a bunch of money for these fancy Medeco locks, I'd probably be pretty ticked off right about now. Someone takes a picture of your key, and is handy with a knife/dremel/other-cutting-tool, and all your secret information are belong to them. Better back that "locked" door up with some Rottweilers and/or some automatic gun turrets."
Read full story here (http://gizmodo.com/5035160/medeco-high-security-m3-locks-hacked-with-easy-credit-card-trick)
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With all the hacks going on this weekend at DefCon, the world's largest annual hacker convention, perhaps the most embarrassingly easy to crack was Medeco's high-security locks. According to a group of security researchers, all you need to get into an Medeco M3 lock, used in sensitive facilities such as the White House and the Pentagon, is a low-res image of someone's key and a credit card.
The researchers took a photograph of a Medeco key, printed the image onto a label and used the label as a cut-out guide for reshaping the plastic of the credit card. Voila; State secrets here we come! Any credit card plastic could be used to create a simulated key, they said.
If I paid a bunch of money for these fancy Medeco locks, I'd probably be pretty ticked off right about now. Someone takes a picture of your key, and is handy with a knife/dremel/other-cutting-tool, and all your secret information are belong to them. Better back that "locked" door up with some Rottweilers and/or some automatic gun turrets."
Read full story here (http://gizmodo.com/5035160/medeco-high-security-m3-locks-hacked-with-easy-credit-card-trick)