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"Break and Enter dropbox" attack with Amazon Key (smartlock and smartcam combo)
- Pratyushaaa 9y agoOh my God
- DyslexicAtheist 9y agoAlexa, where is my furniture?
- walkingolof 9y agoThank you for that great start of my day, still laughing !
- mdekkers 9y agoThanks for helping me start my monday spilling coffee all over my keyboard!!
- Teeer 9y agoTitle makes it sound like someone was actually robbed- a security researcher found a flaw and demonstrated it. No victims yet.
- dang 9y agoRight, the submitted title ("Amazon Key Hacked. Attacker gains unauthorized access to customer's home") broke the site guidelines by being misleading. We've replaced it with a shortened version of the tweet.
- King-Aaron 9y agoAs worrying as it is, the simple fact is that someone is still much more likely to throw a brick through that glass door and manually unlock it than tamper with the electronic lock.
- teamhappy 9y agoThat doesn't make a lot of sense. Locking your front door is a good idea despite the fact that it's easy to get passed that door. Also, if your neighbors see someone throw a brick through your front door they will probably call the police. If they see a person "delivering a package" they won't.
- King-Aaron 9y agoOne thing you should never do is assume a felon has the capacity for making sense. Anecdote, but two weekends ago my apartment was broken into twice in the same weekend. The first time nothing was taken, the second time they took a bottle of display scotch (read: just tea inside) and some loose change. The first time they jimmied open a window, the second time they physically broke a glass window to reach inside and open the lock. Note, neighbours don't generally give two shits about break-ins, unless you have neighbours that are also actively engaged in the community. (Also never underestimate the apathy of others). All a lock can do is slow someone down. If they want to get access to your home, they will. I agree with you that locking your front door is always a good idea, and certainly in some situations a thief will want to employ a lot more stealth with their actions. But there's also thieves that are up to their eyeballs on drugs and that shiny thing on your counter top is all that they care about.
- dingaling 9y ago> All a lock can do is slow someone down And get a pay-out on insurance. If there are signs of forcible entry then my policy says I'm covered. If I left a door unlocked then I'm on my own.
- King-Aaron 9y agoOh for sure. I'm by no means advocating not locking your doors.
- netgusto 9y agoWithout any technical proof, this is just a staged video of a guy "breaking" into a home. In his tweet, MG says: "I'm withholding details until Amazon has a chance to fix this."
- cantrevealname 9y agoSo ironic that the video shows a sophisticated electronic attack against a cheap wooden door with glass panels, a key-in-the knob cylinder, and a mail slot. It weakens the PR impact of the video. They should have filmed it Mission Impossible style at a house with solid locks and doors. :) As an aside: It baffles me how people spend tens of thousands of dollars on things like ornamental molding but can't spend hundreds of dollars on good physical security. One of the funnier purchases are those fancy door handles--with names like "Aged Venetian Bronze with Georgian Entry Knob"--that come with crappy cylinders like Kwikset or Weiser, yet cost more than high-security Medeco or Abloy deadbolts.
- tmalsburg2 9y agoYou can't smash a door in broad daylight but pretending to be the Amazon delivery person? No problem. People don't have high physical security because it most cases it's not needed.
- cantrevealname 9y ago> People don't have high physical security because it most cases it's not needed. Everything helps: better locks, solid doors, security cameras, law enforcement that cares, alarms, community involvement, etc. My theory is that people don't get better locks and rugged doors because most people can't tell good from bad, and therefore choose the cheapest. Or more typically, the builder chooses the cheapest and the buyers don't base purchasing decisions on the quality of locks and insides of doors and jambs because they can't judge it.
- featherverse 9y agoWho didn't see this coming? It's weird that its' 2018 and humans still haven't learned the dangers of moving too quickly to bring new technologies to market. One might think them all fools.