Let's Copy the Key to T-Pain's New Place 🔑

This was T-Pain's tweet that sent the internet into a fun conversation today...

My presentation all about how to copy keys from photos, molds, and more was at Wild West Hackin' Fest and can be seen here...

I like that this is a real-world example of how this can work. It was fun to demonstrate and I'm glad that T-Pain already knows of the situation and has already planned to change the locks before he opens for business! I think it's great that he has this new venture for himself and I wish him the greatest success. 😁👍

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[souleater]

i tried to warn a friend on fb not to post pictures of her new apartment keys. she told me that people cant actually make a key from a picture. a week later she invited me over and i let myself in with the key i made from the photo. the look on her face was priceless and a look of anger, fear and confusion. the only plus side was she now had a second key for her kid to have and didnt pay the scum bag land lord $100 for a spare one. i also proved to her that just cause a key says "do not duplicate" on it doesnt mean you cant take it to a place and have it copied.

[TattiePeeler]

In Ireland or England, just close up TV footage of a prison officer's keys, used for B-Roll, was enough to get an entire prison's locks replaced.

[Jay]

Dev, Why didn’t just use the “Enhance” button that comes standard on every keyboard since like... 2001

[jimharrington]

I love that that that utility is called 'keygen'. I hope it plays awesome techno music like the keygens of old lol

[Tarkov.]

This was exactly what I expected out of the internet.

[berkano_plays]

Start tweeting random keys unrelated to your property instead. Offense is best defense.

[Raysnature]

Two things of interest from this. I used to work as a civilian worker in a UK prison environment, we were taught to hold our keys in such a way as an inmate had the minimum chance of seeing them.
The other. When I moved to the countryside from London the first thing I did was change the locks, as I have done every previous move. All the locals were amazed I did this, I was amazed they didn't. My current partner who is a local woman still finds it amusing.

[shura]

I did this for Dev's challenges one time. First time I ever did it, too, and I got it right. It does get a little fiddly to get the lines in the right place to get a accurate bitting values, but it's not hard. Literally anyone can do this.

[ScottKenny]

Glad T-Pain was reasonably nice about people showing that they could make the key to his pub just from a photo.

[RoamingAdhocrat]

If the guide was SVG rather than a bitmap, it'd never get blurry as you scale it

[HackerBilly]

Man I'm actually glad to hear that this is possible. I have nice photos of my keys to a car I'm restoring. The original set of keys got stolen from me unfortunately so I was never able to make a copy. I still have photos of both sides of the key though. So I'll definitely have to look further into this as I would absolutely love a replacement set of keys for it

[orochiokada]

I was slightly uncomfortable when I came across this video, but now that I know he's changing the lock I think it's a very good reminder not to take pictures of your keys.

[jttech]

Honestly, this was a great happening, because a-lot of people learned a little something about security without even intending to.

[Crash]

Years ago I worked for a car rental company and with Ford cars either the keys locked in the ignition I could take the key nipper and look at the trunk/door key hanging down and cut one by sight. Only had to do one side not both on the older Ford style key.

If I could see the key I could decode it.

[sergeantseven]

When I worked as a locksmith I used to love people who took pictures with their keys in it. Made my life much easier if I couldn't pick the door open and take it apart.

[hedgehogdinosaur]

Keys are just physical passwords, and tweeting your password is just rolling the dice.

[strategicgnomer]

You bet your ass I'd take one of T-pain's cups! The story would be epic. But, glad you guys told him, he's a good dude. Really humble.

[NikiGothBunneh]

I've a joke key I use in photos I had cut, decoding it actually gives my drone number/twitter handle than anything useful for opening locks.

[didnotwantthis]

But the key says "Do Not Duplicate"!

[Dazdigo]

Still can't believe that the TSA gave out the masters for all of their approved locks.