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Somehow Im guessing he has on girlfriend.]]>Oct 21st 2006 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
I think it's a great piece of work, nice job to this student, although the barcode to the "ez mac" was the most inventive. Proof that whatever you can build, someone can also hack.

I just hope his drivers include serious cryptography.

- alienb]]>Oct 21st 2006 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/]]>Jul 2nd 2008 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Feb 1st 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.a1-locksmith.com/ we could use a smart tech like this.]]>Nov 29th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
1. for exhibiting technical know-how surpassing that of about 80%+ of the population

2. for being one of the brown fam]]>Oct 21st 2006 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
the definition of a hack at MIT is a bit different
it's not the computer related hacking we're used to hearing about
it's more of a clever and highly technical prank

and @ everyone else
i'm sure the girls at MIT are on the same level of geekness as him
he will GET girls by doing this =p]]>Oct 21st 2006 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
Second, I doesn't look like he has a protection against a mean-spirited individual yanking on the cord and locking him out of his room (unless he is not too lazy to carry around a key with him =P ). I imagine the waterproof keyboard is for when he comes back from the showers. What a bad day it would be if someone pulled the cord while he was in the shower. "Ha Ha!"
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using a number keypad you have about 10 in how many symbols you feel is needed. for a normal 4 symbol pin thats about 10000 diffrent codes.

using a keyboard you have something like 30 or more (case sensitivity and non-alphanumeric symbols adds even more). with the same 4 symbol code you now have 810000 variations.

allso, it looks so much more geek ;)

hmm, i wonder why he didnt tilt it out from the door, entering multikey combos will be a pain on a vertical keyboard will be a pain...]]>Oct 21st 2006 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
The waterproof keyboard, you can't exactly pull off the keys nor is dust and junk likely to get between the keys.]]>Oct 21st 2006 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
stupid MIT geeks. ]]>Oct 21st 2006 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
Only losers graduate from MIT.]]>Oct 21st 2006 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 22nd 2006 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/What if someone cut the cord?

Isn't that really simple?]]>Oct 21st 2006 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/ to 'open' it) ... guess I was expecting too much from an MIT student :P]]>Oct 21st 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
Uhhhhhuhuhh... the above makes no sense.

"A microcontroller (or MCU) is a computer-on-a-chip used to control electronic devices"

First line off of wikipedia... Jee I'm sorry it doesn't run Windows but that isn't what defines a computer. ]]>Oct 21st 2006 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
Oh well, It's pretty cool overall =P]]>Oct 21st 2006 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
https://www.buyasafe.com/Scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=368]]>Oct 21st 2006 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/
When I was in college, everyone had whiteboards, and you would run out of space, fast. He could just log all password attempts, and the wrong entries would show up as comments, like that exploit in apache that allows users to insert messages into the access.log file.

I agree with all the fellow ubernerds out there that applaud him. And as for the girl who said she found it hot, I just think it's hot when my girlfriend's getting her A+ certification, if she could install a PS/2 MCU that could govern the locking mechanism on her door, I'd start thinking about rings.

People are too quick to decry genius. They find it so frightening that someone out there could possibly be better at something than them. Grow up. We're all (hopefully) learning in this life. ]]>Oct 21st 2006 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.gkefoundation.org/cafe/dheera.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.gkefoundation.org/cafe/gkeusateam.html&h=194&w=170&sz=51&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=Y-cBAeGg8XpxPM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDheera%2BVenkatraman%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official_s%26sa%3DG

Could have figured it out. ]]>Oct 21st 2006 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 21st 2006 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 22nd 2006 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 22nd 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/Oct 22nd 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/21/mit-student-hacks-his-dorm-room-door-lock/2. The lock can still be picked, there is no added security. In fact it makes it weak, because now there are 2 way to open the door.

My solution: Why not just use a simple RF tag? You would not need to have a keyboard or anything on the outside of the door in harms way.

Also, you can inject a encrypted rf id in your hand so you would always have the key! If you don't want an rf id in your hand you could always just carry a tag with you.

This adds the functionality, because now whenever you get close it opens it automatically, and when ever you leave it could lock it up!]]>Dec 26th 2006 11:26PM