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Key Bumping

Written by Edina Nasseri

Friday, 31 October 2008

So now we hear that robbers can enter your house from 200 feet away. Well, more precisely, they can start the process of burglary from 200 feet away. Beginning with a photo of your keys using telephoto lens + the magic of ‘Sneakey’.

Sneakey is a new software developed by rather thoughtless computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego. It is able to reproduce keys with as little as a grainy mobile phone image of the real thing or from a distance of roughly 200 feet.

Benjamin Lexton, one of the scientists working on the project said that the programme is easy to use as all the user (thief) needs to do is indicate where the top of the key and other control points are located from the image. The software then accurately estimates the height of each key cut and voila! you’re in.

So now we have yet another thing to add to our ever expanding worry list!

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