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 a remarkable number of people have no idea how locks and keys work, I'm guessing
which is fine until they share pictures of their keys that show exactly how they're keyed
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@packbat it's not like you can't reverse engineer the master key by taking apart the lock, anyway, so someone would have gotten it sooner or later
this just sped up the process a lot
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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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@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 ...I guess the pattern of the key is a password and the lock it goes to is the account
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