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You can't remotely pick a lock, but you can remotely hack a smart lock, and you also know when its owners are gone. No lock is totally secure, but at least a d
by rhinoceraptor 8y ago
You can't remotely pick a lock, but you can remotely hack a smart lock, and you also know when its owners are gone.
No lock is totally secure, but at least a dumb lock requires physical presence to defeat.
- kuhhk 8y agoIn that scenario though, the attacker (or an accomplice) would need to be physically present to take advantage of the unlock attack...
- jerf 8y agoDon't forget the other major characteristics of network-connected gear; it's not just that a lock can be hacked remotely, but that all of them can be hacked at once, or even just all left accidentally unlocked because someone screwed up at Cloud Central. The real problem with all this network connected stuff isn't even the new failure modes per se... it's the correlated nature of the new failure modes. (You know you're a Real Systems Engineer if something inside of you just screamed in terror.)