Copy a key — from a photo
November 7th, 2008 | Published in Links, Technology
Scientists have created a method where keys can be copied from a photo — from any angle or distance as long as the details can be made out:
“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. “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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