House Keys Copied From 200 Feet Away

UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

The software has been tested a photo of keys taken from almost 200 feet away and with a photo taken by a mobile phone.

Professor Stefan Savage, a computer science professor who led the student-run "Sneakey" project, noted:-

“If you go onto a photo-sharing site such as Flickr, you will find many photos of people’s keys that can be used to easily make duplicates. While people generally blur out the numbers on their credit cards and driver's licenses before putting those photos on-line, they don’t realize that they should take the same precautions with their keys.”

You can read more about the project here. [via]