Bloggers vs Locks
Posted on May 19, 2005
You’d thing the blogosphere was out to get lock makers, but seeing as how pointing out flaws in products designed to provide security is a good thing, I’m OK with it.
You may remember that you can use a bic pen to open bicycle locks, well now you can use a small roll of cardboard to open laptop locks (7.5 MB video link).
On another security related issue, here is a short how-to on faking fingerprints, also found on boing boing. The don’t seem to go on to actually test their fake fingerprint however, so Dan’s still got them beat.
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