White-hat hackers (good hackers that use their knowledge for good and not for evil) Michael Gough and Ian Robertson designed Caribou, a hack app that bypasses cardkey locks for doors long enough for someone to get in the door. Although this App is not available on any smart phones and there is information about the specific cardkey lock you are trying it on that you need, like the IP address, it is both scary and great that this knowledge has been found. The great thing is that Caribou is helping the security of the car-key locks and they are already working on fixing it. It could be used like an onstar service as well, although I'm sure high security buildings would most likely not want that service.
Here is a video of it at work:
For more information:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/video-android-app-hacks-cardkey-protected-doors-one-click
Good grief, that's kind of scary. Why go to the trouble of creating an app, if you are just going to work to correct the problem?
ReplyDeleteI guess you need to create the problem in order to fix it and it would be easier to try unlocking the doors with a phone compared to carrying a bulky laptop around.
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