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Police asked locksmith to recreate a dead man's key to unlock house.

• scrollaway 10y ago
  Maybe if the key was the dead man's finger, and the house contained swathes of the dead man's private life including correspondances, photos, friends/family, all analyzable in mere seconds. Come to think of it: Police asks 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man's fingers to unlock phone.
  • hueving 10y ago
    >and the house contained swathes of the dead man's private life including correspondances, photos, friends/family, Based on the tone of your comment, it seemed that you implied that these wouldn't be in someone's house? They certainly would be for many people I know...
    • scrollaway 10y ago
      Swathes? Maybe not a strong enough word. Do an inventory and compare it to what's in your phone. Even amongst the least technical people I know, some of them have thousands of emails, their facebook correspondances are filled with personal details, their SMS/chat history is a perfectly timestamped history of their past few years, etc. Yeah there's a few hundred, or even maybe thousands of photos in my mother's house. I'm sure there's a lot of unread magazines, too. All of that, accumulated over decades. I think it's still a safe bet there is more data in her phone would than in the combined homes of the entire neighbourhood.