Comments on: Our keys are not even safe… http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/our-keys-are-not-even-safe/ Learning Information Technology - a byte at a time! Sat, 25 May 2013 00:18:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: whatsonmypc http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/our-keys-are-not-even-safe/#comment-253 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:38:42 +0000 http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/?p=1607#comment-253 TechPaul,

Agree with you wholeheartedly…

Rick

]]> By: techpaul http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/our-keys-are-not-even-safe/#comment-252 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:29:13 +0000 http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/?p=1607#comment-252 What an absolute ass.
“We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret,” said Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project.

I am usually a “don’t blame the tool, blame the user” type of guy (I don’t believe it is handguns that kill people, for example. I have never seen a handgun that could sprout legs, walk over and aim itself..).
But I can see no potentially harmless (much less beneficial) uses for this.
It is pure bad science.

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