the story behind how the TSA managed to leak all seven of the master keys for TSA locks practically before they started rolling out the locks is kind of hilarious honestly
a news website was doing an article on it, asked either the TSA or a lock manufacturer that was contracted with them or something like that for photos to use with the article... and they got sent a high-resolution image of all seven keys, and no one thought "wait you can just copy the keys with this image"
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@Felthry ...I guess the pattern of the key is a password and the lock it goes to is the account
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@packbat yeah! like there's no security problem if, on its own, i were to say "my password is 1234", because you wouldn't know what that password goes to (it's nothing, for the record, this is just an example. don't use 1234 as a password okay)
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@Felthry yeah, it got moved from the category of "someone whose job it is to crack this can crack it with a bit of effort" to "anyone who's willing to do a modicum of research can crack this and they're probably available on ebay for two bucks each or less"
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@packbat also showing pictures of your keys isn't necessarily immediately bad, because you also need the information on what those keys go to.... which, of course, is provided quite clearly by a little emblem and a number helpfully telling you exactly which of the seven master keys you need to use to open the thing (for some reason, it's nearly always number 7 though)
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