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>putting my own desktop in a steel cage with a good lock proved effective against retaliation. >Then we moved on to attacking the firmware in each others keyboards. In what world is hacking keyboard firmware easier than lockpicking?
In the world where one is a firmware exploit developer and don't know how to pick locks...?
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I don't expect good locks to keep people out. I expect good locks to be tamper evident so I know I can't trust my system.
The lock doesn't even need to be that good. As you said, the name of the game is intrusion detection, not necessarily intrusion avoidance. The Lock Picking Lawyer chronicled very nicely a technique for turning a KW1-keyed Kwikset core (extremely common here in the US) into something that is tamper evident. See the YouTube video linked herein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JlgKCUqzA0 This kind of thing thwarts cove…
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With growing car theft in the US I've been curious about implanting GPS trackers on my own older enthusiast vehicles. There appears to be many options on Amazon but I can't bring myself to trust any of them. Has anyone here gone down that road before?
I would only do this if you either know the police will help retrieve your car if you have the location, or if you are ready to engage the robbers yourself. Otherwise it's useless to know where it is. I have experience trying to get the cops to help in Oakland and San Jose and they really didn't want to.
A friend of mine got a motorcycle back by watching its movements via the gps tracking, and killing the engine while the guy was riding in a safe-ish and high visibility place, so the thief just parked it and walked away.
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They will get a warning saying there is an air tag travelling with them. I have this problem. We have an air tag on one of my kids shoes when we are out, and whenever I’m not with them, my partner gets spammed with warnings on her phone saying there is an unknown air tag travelling with her.
That's Apple's so-called "stalker warning", a ridiculous concept.
Says a guy who’s never had a friend or family member who’s been stalked.
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Affectionately known as "MIMPCO 365 ESWPB 2021" Hey! That's my Windows 10 product key! (not really, but felt like it could be).
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Check out AutoPi. Open source, plugs into your ODBII port so you can not only track your car but also get maintaince alerts etc.
Depending on how old the enthusiast vehicles are, they probably don't have an OBD-II port (or possibly any port at all). None of mine do, up to the mid 90s.
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Unfortunately, there aren't really all that many "good locks" on the market. The Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube[1] has pretty much destroyed my faith in the modern lockmaking industry. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer/videos
He can defeat just about anything, but he’s also exceptionally skilled. As a consumer of locks, I expect them to be defeatable by a skilled lockpicker. But I don’t expect them to be defeatable by a bic pen or by reaching in the keyhole with an oddly shaped wire to move the locking paul. You can buy locks that don’t have easy bypasses, and can’t be easily drilled, and can’t be picked by beginners.
To keep people like me out for a while buy a Medeco. Pins not only need to be at the right height, but also the right rotation. They are a real pain in the ass to pick. I don't even know any locksmiths that can pick them. Good security for the money.
Bosnian Bill and LPL... Okay they can pick them, but they are like the 0.0001% in skill.
Still even then pay an extra $100 for really high quality disk detainer lock like a Protec 2 and you will keep even them out for quite a while.
That is what I use on my luggage. TSA has to call me to unlock them with my consent every time. The way I like it. Great tip I picked up from Deviant Ollam.
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Just for reference, here are a couple breakdowns of how impressive the iPhone headphone jack is. It is impressive how good it is and how tiny it is. https://www.ifixit.com/News/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardow... https://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qu...
It would be more impressive if they could fit it inside the phone.
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Unfortunately, there aren't really all that many "good locks" on the market. The Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube[1] has pretty much destroyed my faith in the modern lockmaking industry. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer/videos
For most uses of a lock its job is to keep honest people out. I have had doors kicked in, so these days I want the lock to be the weakest, not strongest, part of the door. So when it is kicked in it is a cheap lock that is destroyed not an expensive hardwood door (I like hardwood doors...)
If a door is broken then a lock did its job. It let you know you were broken into.
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They are really quite unlike us. And our sets of norms is, shall we say, somewhat different to theirs.
Morality is the difference. That's not exactly "norms" but somewhat on an adjacent path. But in terms of interest and participation in our club, *they are us*. That's the true terrible reality. A more accessible idea which is quite different but allows some truth to shine in similarly is to consider how many of us are utterly dependent on advertising in our careers but we all adblock personally.
Some of us don't agree with the intelligence gathering behaviors of our governments, but they certainly might not view it as an issue.