Axxis fingerprint door lock invites hacker wannabes to burgle your premises
By Vlad Savov 
posted July 10th 2009 4:57AM
posted July 10th 2009 4:57AM
posted July 10th 2009 4:57AM
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If I really wanted to get into a house. I'd just break down the door with a swift kick.
And hence Axxis takes it device to the design board again. :)
Srsly, this lock is completely rubbish. What happens if I tell one of my friends to get something from the house?
@egress63
Lend them your finger, Duh.
BISHOP: Anybody remember how to defeat an electronic keypad?
WHISTLER: Uh oh.
CREASE: Don't even joke about that, Martin. Those things are impossible.
BISHOP: Think I'm joking? Looks like they just put it in.
CREASE:Oh boy!
MOTHER: Here, maybe this might help. An old buddy of mine that was in Desert Storm sent it to me. Of course, he was on the other side.
BISHOP: Come on, Crease, there's got to be a way around these things!
CREASE: All right, all right. This might work.
BISHOP: Yeah... yeah... above... yeah... right... uh huh... uh huh... yeah... right... yeah...
Okay. I'll give it a shot.
[ Bishop kicks the door open with one good boot.]
More to the point, if someone wants to get in, they would just pick the physical lock bypass. Security is only as good as the weakest link...
If I wanted to know how many times people come and go to my house, I could just set up a webcam focused on the door. It would be cheaper anyways. Regardless, I wouldn't trust one of these locks...they said, the fingerprint part can be easily fooled, and PIN numbers only have so many combinations.
More like: "Your finger will be hacked off"...
Why even bother going inside the house? just still this (since it costs 1000$)
Two things:
Still? :P and Engadget already made that joke. :)
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Is this the lock that Mythbusters fooled with just a simple photocopy of a fingerprint
It seems that Axxis has done a lot of research and development into this product. It is good that companies continue to work on new technologies.
I'd rather face nerd burglars than regular burglars so this sounds like a good idea to me :).
"with a price like that, a burglar might be inclined to steal the locks instead of your treasured possessions."
thanks for the humor! :)
It's just sad how many people have never seen Sneakers. Someone else quoted the scene above, but things are actually worse than that.
We have a secure room where I work. Really fancy biometric hand scanner and super tough lock securing the door. No prox card, no biometric scan, you don't get in. The door is incredibly secure.
The emergency entry plan? "Take a running leap and go through the drywall next to the door." Seriously. It's just standard drywall. Will take seconds to breach. No real tools needed.
The moral is that you can make the door secure but when you make walls out of relatively fragile stuff, then the room is only as secure as the fragile stuff. Drywall is a particularly bad choice for security.
I find that completely hilarious. You just have to wonder how many people that don't know it's only drywall beforehand would ever think of it though. I bet the really fancy door and lock system would throw most people off unless they punch the wall out of frustration.
That would be funny, guy tries to hack into and break down door. Many tries later he punches hole through drywall next to door. lol
Patrick
Similar thing was done in an episode of Burn Notice. Drug dealer has big, bad steel door. Star of show knocks, threatens, then shoots through drywall next to door a bunch of times. Another thing about fingerprint readers is that they can be glitchy and you need to swipe your finger several times - with some folks (like myself) where our fingerprints are just hard to read. My son and I were messing around with one and the reader had a very difficult time with my fingerprint swipes while my son had very few problems.
very funny!
if they are aware of the security limitations of drywall, then perhaps they are counting on the lack of covering your tracks. slip through a door, easier to cover your tracks/mask/edit the security logs, etc. a little harder to hide a bugs bunny-shaped hole in the wall. :)
Do you wear the bugs bunny outfit all the time or just when breaking and entering?
This is not a new technology. The daycare center that I send my children to have been using fingerprint + PIN for years on their Doors.
The only real bronze is a rubbed bronze. It goes down smooth and satisfies in all the right ways. No sir, you cannot beat rubbed bronze.
(reclines back in overstuffed leather chair and takes a sip of scotch)
I've been using the Kwikset SmartScan fingerprint lock on my house for over a year now.
(http://www.kwikset.com/smartseries/smartscan/Gallery.aspx)
It's not a security thing, it's a convenience thing, as I know that Kwikset locks are notoriously easy to pick/bump.
But hey, I don't have to carry a keychain/keys anymore.
More safe, no-scratch room in my pockets for blackberries, iPhones, etc...
The kinds of people that can afford this have at least 5 exterior doors. Hmmm. Well played, Axxis.
and it looks like a slightly scary face to boot :)
We have these at work. I had a blister on my finger once, and couldn't punch in.
What happens then?
The correct term for the title, should've been "burglarize"
Smart home has had a finger print/key code entry lock for years....and it's under 1/2 the price of this.
i have been looking for one of these for my front door. Tired of using keys, i never have to take my keys out of my pants when i go to my car ( love fast key) but i have to to enter my house. At work i have an RF ID key so again i dont need to take it out of my pocket ( the pad is pants level). But i cant see myself spending 700 bucks on one lock. Also how about a secure bluetooh one. Paired to my phone or something.
Having installed this product and programmed it myself, I have seen the quality of this product firsthand. It is obvious by many of the comments here that those people have never seen nor used the Bioaxxis Thumblock. The features include fingerprint and/or pin code entry and emergency key override. Installed with a Bilock cylinder, it is now a pick proof and bump proof access control device that is designed to answer many of today's demands. For less than $1000 installed, it is far better quality than many competing products and also significantly more economical. It installs directly in place of any existing entrance set, with only 2 additional holes required. It operates on 4 AA batteries and has an external 9 volt battery port to enable emergency power in case the regular batteries drain. It has a built in audit trail feature and the percentage of voltage displayed. It also has a USB port inside to enable upload of new information from the separate management software and fingerprint scanner. It also can download audit trails for as far as you want to know.
Before opinions are tendered it might be worthwile to check your facts. this is a brilliant product that will defeat virtually any attempt at non destructive entry.