The shape of a key is like a password — it only provides security if you keep it secret from the bad guys.
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Could an attacker create a working key from the [Diebold website] photograph? Ross [Kinard of SploitCast] decided to find out. Here’s what he did:
I bought three blank keys from Ace. Then a drill vise
and three cabinet locks that used a different type of key from Lowes. I
hoped that the spacing and depths on the cabinet locks’ keys would be
similar to those on the voting machine key. With some files I had I
then made three keys to look like the key in the picture.
Ross sent me his three homemade keys, and, amazingly, two of them
can open the locks on the Diebold machine we used in our study!
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