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 @tevruden Video Description: Zoomed in view of a combination lock with a digital numpad. The camera pans right a little to a door made of metal lattice. In the front garden behind the door a guy is laughing.     @tevruden @patterfloof Had a customer move into a shared office building for a short while. Electronic door entry system. How many combinations did I claim it had to the building management? 2. Clean/dirty marks were on 1, 6, 8, and 9. "there's thousands of combinations" they said. I entered 1968, door opened. I was going to try 1986 otherwise... They agreed they need to clean the pad weekly....  @chloeraccoon @tevruden @patterfloof I had a doctor with one of these and I regularly forgot the code and the dirty/clean keys and no timeout meant I usually got in within a few tries.  @miah @chloeraccoon @tevruden I used to live in a block of flats with a keypad for entry. Sometimes I'd remember the number, sometimes just the position & order to press, and sometimes get it wrong if I thought of the number mid-press @patterfloof @miah @tevruden I will let you imagine how fun I find these with my dyslexia and dyscalculia...  @chloeraccoon @tevruden @patterfloof  @chloeraccoon @tevruden @patterfloof There is a common mechanical type of keypad where the actual combination doesn't matter as long as you hit the numbers. I mean, the order of the number doesn't matter. Say the combination is officially 2134 then 1234 also works, as does 4321, etc. As long as those four digits get pressed in any order, it works. My last four workplaces have had this type of lock. I used to prank co-workers who didn't know this with the "wrong" number. @chloeraccoon @tevruden @patterfloof @CppGuy @tevruden @patterfloof Where as when I see one, and if I know someone high up is a football fan... well, lets just say it's amazing how many locks use 1966 as their code... @chloeraccoon @tevruden @patterfloof@meow.social (I recommend putting your hand over all the keys for a bit after entering the number.) And yes, I just got this thermal camera and it blows me away how well this works. @hn3000 @tevruden @patterfloof I have a seek thermal camera that slots into the bottom of my phones.. I mostly use it for checking the windscreens work when buying new mondeos... ;) @chloeraccoon @tevruden Mine's an Infiray P2 Pro, which also goes into the USB-C at the bottom of my phone. Bought it to debug some electronics project. Checking windscreens on cars sounds interesting, too. How does a problem manifest? Are you looking for cracks or bad fit? (Oh, googled it -- they have heated windscreens, I never had that in a car.) @hn3000 @tevruden my seek is old enough it's usb microb, I use a microb to c adapter and it works ok. And checking for dead lines *nods* at ยฃ800 a replacement windscreen, I want to check before I buy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kdnCRbnZ2g (yes the passengerside isn't working 100% ;)  "We regret to inform our customers that very sophisticated hackers have infiltrated our system, despite our state of the art security" This is like a physical world model of "secret questions" when you sign up for an account. @tevruden It is a phone, not a lock ๐คท @scrumschau@mastodon.social @tevruden@nonexiste.net these can do that but it can also unlock the door if you enter a code @scrumschau @tevruden These devices usually allow the resident to unlock the door for their guest by pressing a key on their phone once they answer the call. It's an access control device.  @tevruden I'm reminded of security at my workplace. Its exactly that in places. Just walk around.  They changed works door code at the start of covid. Never bothered to remember it as work from home. So been walking in by the open warehouse roller door since. @tevruden I didn't realise this was a video and spent way too long staring at the "picture" trying to figure out what's so funny. It's probably a good thing I'm not an infosec professional.        I kinda get a feeling some of these are just to keep cars out/skateborders off the sidewalk. Or in the case of the tie-down strap, just to keep the gate from swinging open.    @tevruden lol if the point is that you just have to laugh so hard to stave off the existential dread of how bad htings actually are, that is #accessibility, as well :P @tevruden Sometimes? Feels? Which companies would actually keep caring about security if you'd tell them it does not influence stocks value?  I can't even call that a "back door" as there is no door, or wall even, of any kind, around back.  @tevruden That is such an accurate representation... :coolhhHHAAAHHH:  @tevruden This was the bike shed padlock installed by the block manager where I used to live. Suffice to say, the bikes kept getting stolen even when tied to the metal railings inside and the block manager couldn't figure out how. With the bikes, the chains and locks would also disappear. It took me showing them this padlock and the fact that the metal railings could be unbolted, lifted to slide the chains out, and bolted again in less than a minute. Security is a box-ticking exercise.  Hmm, the budget for the side ' firewall ' wall, TBD, est. FY27Q2 , the new phone dialer keypad to ring the 1-4 apt's for door entry with the password ( added FY24Q1 ) of ' your voice laughing is your password ! ๐๐คฃ ' worked โ๏ธ, and the welder mesh on adding more mesh to the front door will be added in FY28Q4, โ๏ธ?  |
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