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waitwhatwhoa on June 24, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera

Great to see UC San Diego research on the front page again :)

a similar technology has been commercialized: http://dittokey.com/

also similar but relatively unrelated: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-duplicating-house...

These efforts are unaffiliated with the authors but provide a far more tangible result.

Ruudjah on June 24, 2011 [–]

Handy. So I only need to make a pic of the key, and then send it to an online service, wait a day, and go wild in someone's house/company. Which by the way, won't be covered by insurance because there are no signs of burglary.

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