DEFCON : Simple Hack Can Unlock Most Any Office Door

At Defcon, a hacker shows how a $10 chip called the Gecko can be used to open almost any card-protected office door.

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[Anzuo]

How is that simple...? Am I missing something? You have to stand in the doorway, force out the card reader from the wall, then start meddling with the electronics...?

Perhaps this is some usage of the word "simple" I was not previously aware of.

[tyzorg]

simple my ass, let me just pry the reader off the wall without someone noticing and let me reinstall my own unit and make it look like it was origonally.... RIIIIIIIGHT... real simple.

[crunchzor]

What kind of illiterate cunt wrote this video title? "Most any"? What the fuck does that mean exactly? Pick one...

[JoseJimeniz]

If you're going to go to all the trouble of prying the reader off, then just touch the two "Door Open" wires together. No need for expensive hardware.

[F4RADAY0x13]

@tyzorg Two fucking screws in something a backyard "electrician" installed? Yep. VERY simple. If you cant do this in three minutes while drunk, you have no limbs.

[Barnaby504]

ATMs are so easy to break into. That's why they never have any money in them, right?

By the way, it's social compliance, not complience. It's easier to botch than you'd think.

...either way the risk is high still, and it really isn't always that simple, especially when it'd take a crowbar to open the dang thing possibly, without breaking it and creating a mess (or making it obvious that you're up to no good)

[BTCforlife]

@tyzorg People attach machines like this to ATM' and steal card info. It must be simple enough.

[Anzuo]

@compoundguy There are still risks involved, nonetheless. Maybe this is a last resort, but there MUST be simpler ways to accomplish whatever goal you have.

[compoundguy]

@Anzuo have you ever heard of something called social complience, its quite intereseting, if you were to dress up in a red overcoat with a clip-board pda and a multimetere with some shitty company name on your outfit mabe a hard hat too you probably wont be bothered by anyone simply as you look like a profesional, they will see nothing out of the ordinary and simply go about their lives as they were, however do the same thing carrying a skateboard and baseball cap you will have the cops called

[adickel9]

Simple is a battering ram..

[JSWISTN]

@Anzuo yeah im with you wtf is simple