{"id":8553,"date":"2012-01-13T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/01\/13\/keys-duplicated-from-photo-delayed-reaction\/"},"modified":"2012-01-13T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:00:01","slug":"keys-duplicated-from-photo-delayed-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120113-01\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"Keys duplicated from photo: Delayed reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a report some time ago that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu\/news\/news_releases\/release.sfe?id=791\"> researchers have developed a way to duplicate keys given only a photograph<\/a>. When I read this story, I was reminded of an incident that occurred to a colleague of mine.\n He accidentally locked his keys in his car and called a locksmith. Frustratingly, the keys were sitting right there on the driver&#8217;s seat. The locksmith arrived and assessed the situation. &#8220;Well, since you already paid for me to come all the way out here, how would you like a spare key?&#8221;\n &#8220;Huh? What do you mean?&#8221;\n The locksmith looked at the key on the driver&#8217;s seat, studied it intently for a few seconds, then returned to his truck. A short while later, he returned with a freshly-cut key, which he inserted into the door lock.<\/p>\n<p> The key worked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a report some time ago that researchers have developed a way to duplicate keys given only a photograph. When I read this story, I was reminded of an incident that occurred to a colleague of mine. He accidentally locked his keys in his car and called a locksmith. Frustratingly, the keys were sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>There was a report some time ago that researchers have developed a way to duplicate keys given only a photograph. When I read this story, I was reminded of an incident that occurred to a colleague of mine. He accidentally locked his keys in his car and called a locksmith. Frustratingly, the keys were sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}