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To use the lock analogy: It's not OK to break into random houses under the guise of lock picking research. Even if it is research, it's still B&E. However, th
by Canada 11y ago
To use the lock analogy:
It's not OK to break into random houses under the guise of lock picking research. Even if it is research, it's still B&E.
However, the designer/manufacturer/seller/marketer of the defeated locks would look silly to come out and say, "No fair, you're not allowed to pick those locks. We clearly said you could only do that in our test lab!"
- tedunangst 11y agoSo where does that leave the guy who discovered nearly all hotel locks are trivially hackable?
- maxerickson 11y agoIf I understand correctly, he did a lot of the work with the idea of selling hotels an alternative to the keycard programmers that come with the locks, and the company that did that purchased stuff to work with. This story has lots of discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4281722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4281722 Especially this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4282666 (Also, not all hotels, just lots and lots of them that used that particular implementation)
- Canada 11y agoI'm pretty sure everyone here would mock the hotel lock vendors for complaining... even if a government paid that guy to illegally break into a bunch of hotel rooms.
- nitrogen 11y agoNo, if your scenario occurred, there would be a similar sentiment as in the thread here. Motive matters.
- jacquesm 11y agoI don't recall Cody going into a number of rooms, photographing their contents and sharing those photographs with the authorities.
- mmcwilliams 11y agoWhat if those locks were willingly sent from house to house with the intention that the sending would obscure their source/destination? If you signed your house up to be one of those locations and decided to try to pick some of the locks that were shipped through your house, you would consider that B&E?