Why You Should Keep Your Keys Hidden
November 3, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Announcements
Not your data or virtual keys mind you. Over the last week, computer scientists from the University of California San Diego extension demonstrated a program that can duplicate a key with physically owning one, a process named teleduplication.
Stefan Savage, the university professor who acted as project led, summed up the obectives: “We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret. Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someone’s keys from a distance without them even noticing.”
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