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- hugepedlar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+68Link to the real deal - avoid two blogspams in a row...
http://dheera.net/projects/door.php - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+56What exactly is wrong with using the key? It's a dorm room, not a suite in Vegas.
- bflfab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39No kidding, I can just imagine coming home from a party blasted and not being able to remember/type my password!
This is MIT though, the easy way is the boring way. - Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Just wait till someone puts a hardware keylogger in the keyboard.
- NinjAlt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39Because its a hobby and its fun? Whats wrong with doing a little project to take off some stress?
- nopal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27http://dheera.net/projects/door.c
36541? - Modiga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yeah but with this method, if you don't like the guy couldn't you just cut the wire to the keyboard and post it under the door/gap it comes through so he can't get back in?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"Keys are obsolete. Everyone in your college dorm probably uses keys to enter their rooms."
since when are keys obsolete? if they where, why is everyone be using them? - jgzman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I believe that many of you are missing the point. If he just wanted a computerized door lock, he could just buy one.
But he chose to build one, with his own ingenuity, and know-how, and spare parts. And it's HIS lock now, and he can use what he has learned to go on to do better things in the future.
I am distressed that I even have to point this out to people, especially people on Digg. - nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12From dheera.net:
"..and capacitive (where you just tap your fingers on the doorknob itself in a particular pattern) [to unlock the door]..."
In my opinion, this is a much cooler way (and more impressive, really) than what he ultimately decided to go with. - Sniper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12if(s[4]==1&&s[3]==4&&s[2]==5&&s[1]==6&&s[0]==3) {
output_bit(PIN_A2,1); - JonDiggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10give me 5 minutes to type my 64 character password into this awkwardly positioned keyboard on my door...
- Dayz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9@nopal
yep its just that. He's should have just used a keypad - kenahoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It would take a lot more than that to get an MIT student *****.
- evilpig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Instead of an entire keyboard, he should've used an external numpad thing...
- jexdawg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Or break the keyboard. Whatever works.
- pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I mentioned it on the engadget thread, and he responded, claiming that is not his real pin.
I'm sure it isn't now... :) - lava, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Whoa, Dheera's on Digg? WTF is this world coming to?
(I kinda know him..) - alienpi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I like the iteration where he has the Screen on the door where peeps can leave messages and stuff. Really the latest version is the most boring.
- nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@consoneo - MIT would frown upon him messing with the actual door lock or strike plate. As it says in the link for this story.
Also, he could have preferred having the possibility of having all letters, numbers, symbols, caps, etc. available for his password. I don't he is restricting it to only numbers. - qpzy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What a ***** waste of time
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh ***** caps lock was on, just another minute. Oh wait, Someone cut the wire! I'm locked out! Would be funny if someone put a PS/2 password sniffer on it.
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But I think that also is way harder to make working in the sense it should work for him, but not for anyone else.
- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5No computer, but he used a microcontroller? I've seen microcontrollers that are more powerful than computers I've used (true-2006 microcontroller vs 90 Apple, but the point stands)
- answer42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wasn't that an episode of MacGyver?
- nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2pickyypg beat me to it, but yes, that's just a sample program he posted. Who in the hell is going to post their pin, especially on the same site that's giving you information on how he set up the lock.
- sharigan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5cut the keyboard wire and he's *****?
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Modiga : You could just shove something (chewing gum, glue, etc etc) in the lock screw it up just as easily, but no one does..
More likely, is a a powercut making it slightly difficult to get in, but I doubt it's too big of a problem.
- Ben - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3or just simply cut the keyboard wire and tuck in one end under the door
- JackHallows, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is Digg, remember? Nobody cares if something has been posted already. Also yours probably wasn't dugg because the subject line doesn't contain leet keywords like "MIT" and "hacks". I'm sure it also has something to do with 'popularity'...
This is the reason I quit submitting things; someone more popular will always come along, take the story you submitted, and get front page with it.
If it makes you feel any better I'll digg yours and bury this as a dupe. - iworms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3To open the door without destruction, just dust the keyboard for fingerprints. (UV might work too.) Now all keys have fingerprints, but the ones that are pressed most frequently and recently will stand out. You then just try different combinations, which will take less time than to pick a Medeco lock. (Plus, anyone can dust and punch keys, but not many people can pick bump-proof high security locks.)
- consoneo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Couldn't he have just replaced the door lock with one that is a keypad for cheaper? It's not like he didn't drill into the door to mount that crap...
- kalleanka, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You don't think he still has his real key?
- boneill428, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The best college parties are at the MIT frats.
- nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 Yes, I believe it was the difficultly involved with this (and other methods) that ultimately knocked them out of the running, as he did mention that he arrived at the decision after moving multiple times. His current setup is easy to install and use while still allowing for a password of seemingly any complexity and length. I suppose he decided the pros outweighed the cons of his only means of entry being so easily accessible (which would allow for any amount of sabotage).
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http://hyipnews.freehostia.com/hyip - Firefreezer17, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Lol, instead of putting him down so much why not try to appreciate a little since we're all into technology.
- Larke2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3anyone who puts a keyboard on their door is just looking for attention. neat idea, but a fingerprint scanner would have been less "in your face" than a full on qwerty.
- theprodigy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"they drink less at MIT"
You obviously didn't go to MIT. - HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Perhaps I'm the only one who remembers this, but MIT is marginally famous for a contest that pits senior students against new students, and new students are told to make a "puzzle" to challenge the seniors to SPECIFICALLY deny them access to the new students rooms, unless they solve the puzzle.
Perhaps I should seek the vid I once saw : P But still, this is not new, other than someone bypassing their OWN dorm locks.... - kagelump, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think you just completely missed the idea of "geek cred"
- likwidoxigen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1HOLY SH*T! I went to highschool with that kid, he's absolutely freaking awesome.
- ldavid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This guy has obviously never gotten laid.
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Cal Tech?
- gooru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"No kidding, I can just imagine coming home from a party blasted and not being able to remember/type my password!"
Funny and true story. This actually happened to a coworker who lived in his MIT frat. He came home one day so incredibly drunk that he forgot the front door code. We stood outside with him trying to snap him out of his drunken stupor while a female coworker slapped him in the face. Eventually, someone came down to let him in.
The next day, he thought that the slapping had actually been a dream. - dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0other college students feel pressure to be weirder
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8331843406629794310
in case you don't want to watch the video a guy in boxers jumps out a window of the 5th story of a buliding into the snow. - sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I like the Easy Mac barcode scanner. Lose your key, go buy some Easy Mac. Simple.
- Lark7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My brother did something like this years ago at Michigan State University. He modified his deadbolt so it could be operated using a key fob. Check it out:
http://www.andersknelson.com/index.php?option=com_zoom&Itemid=47&catid=10 - bdpf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Designing persons and engineers need to remember the basic thing.
KISS = KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.
Use the key and turn the knob.
Programs long ago forgot this basic law of design and engineering.
Maybe MIT has forgotten too.
Now if the door would open automatically when you whistled a few notes, that might be something to brag about. -
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