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:ellie: Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️‍🌈🎄 @noelle@elekk.xyz

From twitter.com/LockPickingLwyr/st:

"The company that sent me the pictured fingerprint lock has provided the security quote of the year: “...the lock is invincible to the people who do not have a screwdriver.”"

Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@noelle Well, they're not wrong....

Oh wait, bolt cutters.

Renalia - LOGGED THE HECK IN @Nine

@Rosemary @noelle UNless fingerprint recognition has gotten better in the last few years then the fingerprint scanner itself can be pretty easily circumvented by like, licking your finger or something first apparently??

Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@Nine @noelle I'll be surprised if you can't do something to it through that usb port on the bottom, too. Try shoving twelve volts into it or something, I bet _something_ will happen to it. Less destructively, you can probably hack it through some vulnerability in its firmware.

Renalia - LOGGED THE HECK IN @Nine

@Rosemary @noelle this too. Though thinking that star head screws would suffice as a mechanical security measure is... pretty poor show from the company in the first instance too. But also the bolt cutters thing, even more so. Seriously why would anybody think a finger print scanner padlock is any more secure than a regular one??

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Renalia - LOGGED THE HECK IN @Nine

@Rosemary @noelle ...oh god what if the battery runs out.

Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@Nine @noelle Even they can't have been that stupid; I'm sure the resting position of the solenoid is the locked position.

Someone should send one of those locks to bigclive to see how horribly designed they are, though...

Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space

@Nine @noelle Maybe the selling point is convenience? After all, you can forget a key, but most people have difficulty forgetting their fingers.

Renalia - LOGGED THE HECK IN @Nine

@Rosemary @noelle again though, how do you charge it? when it's not in use do you gotta plug it in? leaving the thing it's attached to unlocked?? if the battery runs out it's stuck forever in the locked position requiring either a really long charge cable and an extension lead at least for several hours to get it charged again, or again, bolt cutters. e_e; In their quest for techy "convenience" they've actually lessened it. omg. how are corps like this??

★ The Black Star ★ @theblackstar@eldritch.cafe

@Nine @Rosemary @noelle Master Lock makes Bluetooth ones that can be unlocked with a smart phone, though it’s probably little more secure than the finger print, but at least their locks can’t be opened with a star drive screwdriver, lol. It also has some secondary way to open to change the batteries if /when they die.

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