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Hah, that's funny. I often forget that we may be participating in some future historians most exciting discovery...

Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been on the road. Unfortunately, as it is an ongoing situation, I'm waiting until every backer receives their items before talking publicly about the experience/lessons learned. Maybe I'll post it up on hn when the time comes, though.

Deadlatches have existed for a very long time, to prevent that problem. Next time you are looking at a door with a latch instead of, or in addition to a bolt, look "behind" the main latch and you should see a small, separate bit protruding. Press that bit in, and then try to push the latch back. The latch shouldn't budge. That's a dead latch.

Found a good picture, here: http://www.gaterslocksmith.com/images/deadbolts/Deadlatch-bu...

Unfortunately, while they have been on the market for a very very long time, not everyone uses them, and many that do use them don't use the proper strike plate for their door, or just allow them to go into misalignment. So, the deadlatch doesn't actually get pushed back when the door is closed, and the latch can be carded as though it weren't even there.

Lock Game 3D was the best :)

bosnianbill is a great guy. Also writes articles for locksmithing mags, etc. Real crossover star for the Locksport/Locksmithing communities.

State by state (and some non-us countries): http://lockwiki.com/index.php/Legal_issues

Disc Detainer locks are far from impossible to pick: Disc Detainer lock talk from LayerOne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv5N6pHXf-E

"We need to start attacking disc detainer locks" from Shmoocon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0PDQUZi74

Nirav Patel's 3D printed DDetainer key: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-now-for-disc-deta...

Guide to Disc Detainer Locks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnW5GgaDKFc&list=PL7F406AFC7...

But, as to your actual question of "why" there is a lot that goes into it. Henry Robinson Towne is a central figure in particular, but so is the great lock controversy of 1851, which was a watershed moment in how most english-speaking societies dealt with mechanical security ever after.

I'd be happy to put some stuff in an email for you. For reference, I ran one of the largest early successes that unfortunately turned into an ongoing trainwreck. I'm actually still bullish on crowd-funding, but there are definitely some things worth sharing from the experience. Email is in my profile.

133 :)

Yeah, I thought "for the public to view" was very clear. I think you only wound up downvoted out of some OSS reactionism that skimmed by what you were actually saying.

Used to use it as an email server, nowadays I just have it forward to the EFF =P

I couldn't figure out how to efficiently say exactly what you just wrote. Nicely put!

This is the loneliest thing I've tried to do in a while. Looking forward to using this when I'm in a populous area again. I really hope it takes off.

Oh, and I'd love it if we could use underscores for our names.

Missing the option of "Sometimes I report in incredible detail, sometimes I just keep moving."

Thank you very much for that breakdown!

Nope, in fact, that's precisely one of the avenues mentioned in other articles. That perhaps a major label or a large, unrelated brand will buy it to distribute it either for sale or for promotional purposes. Like, drop into a Puma store, the only place you can listen to the album, sorta thing.

You can get a high quality wrist-impression of a key in a couple of seconds if left alone with keys. You can even learn to sight read keys quite trivially. I don't think its so much the speed you are talking about as, perhaps, the accessibility of technique. I mean, if you can get a clean photo of a key, you can reproduce it. It's a physical object, its just metal. One of the first keys I ever made was from an old saw blade & just based on memory. Worked the very first time.

So, I don't think these services really change the game at all, but perhaps provide a new level of information to the general public?

Hopefully, as a rule, people would tend toward protecting their keys. Here's a gorgeous Cartier key protector: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/25421384_a-cartier-of-lo... if you want to do it style.

Oh, man! I saw this a while back and was very excited about it. I have a project I've been working on off and on in my spare time that I'd love to talk to you about if you'd be up for a conversation.

What part of that sequence of events were you unable to do before KeyMe or KeysDuplicated?

The future is now: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-now-for-disc-deta...

I'd imagine that he was actually charging you for the extra effort as much as doing something sketchy. While the card does provide an additional layer of security, it also provides a layer of convenience for the locksmith, as they can just punch your code into their machine and it will spit out a copy very rapidly.

It sounds like you were talking with someone who had a clue and could quickly, but with additional effort, reproduce a key via a duplicator like this: http://www.lockpicks.com/w333l-sidewinderkeyduplicator.aspx which is fine, but dramatically less convenient than an automated code cutter.

Hey! Just a note to say I love what you've done at keysduplicated. When you first launched Shloosl I had dozens of people email and tweet me expecting that I would be horrified. Instead, I tried to explain that convenience has to live in concert with security. If you can provide people a solution that is nearly as convenient as keeping a key under the doormat, but far safer on an individual bases? I think that's a huge win.

Congrats on your success thus far, wishing you the best!

That mark is only a request of a given locksmith. People have been putting pieces of tape, grinding or just going to Home Depot where the attendants don't check, forever.

Hah, my brain just merged or ignored that. Weird.

That said - when I did find it, I was impressed by how incredible readable it was: https://dragdis.com/privacy_policy

Please link to that from your sign up page!

Also, I was asked to agree to your terms and privacy policy...yet couldn't actually view either. When I attempted to register without acceptance, I was told I must accept, but still no indication of what I was actually agreeing to:

http://imgur.com/PcLFaPE

I would love to hear how that played out, actually, if you don't mind.

That would be fantastic. I'm sure there will be some pendulum swinging as you nail down the balance of enthusiastic solvers & the maximum capacity for cooks in any given kitchen, but I think its a great goal and I'll be following along enthusiastically.

I don't have a fully formed thought here, but I think, sometimes, it can be difficult to know what your problems are, and perhaps even more difficult to know whether or not your problems are solvable.

I received a mass email years ago from someone I was acquainted with who was heading off to volunteer at a hospital in Somalia. She was spreading the word that they were rebuilding this hospital, lot of details, and then asking for anyone who could devote a month of their life to come to Somalia and train staff or help with construction.

I can't train medical staff, and I doubt I'd be much use with construction, but I reached out to ask if they needed any help securing their facility. The person coordinating the volunteer efforts didn't know until she contacted the woman heading the whole project. She told my friend that everything was being stolen. Sheets, office supplies, mattresses, and the drugs, which would be a huge target, hadn't even arrived yet. They were in serious need of a comprehensive physical security solution and didn't have a plan.

That is a situation where I can provide potentially invaluable help, but despite knowing there was a problem, they didn't even know that there were people in the world who could help with that on a volunteer basis.

So, again, I don't have a solid idea, but if there were any way to help project creators think through and detail their pain points, I think that could be incredibly helpful. My example was extreme, but I'm sure there are many people muddling through archaic, complex problems that don't there are better ways. The Toyota logistics donation to NYC Food Bank springs to mind:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/nyregion/in-lieu-of-money-...