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I should point out that master keying was about a century old at the time, and while the mechanical details weren't secret, locksmiths tended to the inner workings of locks as "restricted knowledge",
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Essentially, their argument was that this would be a huge pain and expense to fix, and so we are all better off just keeping it on the down low. And that kind of worked, for about a hundred years, unt
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Anyway, my intent in looking at locks and publishing my paper wasn't to disrupt the lock industry. I believed, as I still do, that mechanical locks and physical security have quite a bit to teach comp
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@mattblaze@federate.social I had a similar experience in an unrelated area (except, of course, that it was
@jswatz@journa.host who also wrote it up). After downloading district court records, we discovered a large number of bugs: disclosure of names of minor children, of condiential informants, of medical records, and *tons* of SSNs and other IDs. The courts went ballistic, they were convinced that the PACER paywall was protecting privacy and by disclosing the bug, I had blown their cover.
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