Physical locks: key scanning, cloud storage, duplication services

TheWindBringeth · Jul 25, 2014

The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/keyme-let-me-break-in/

...I spent about 30 seconds in the stairwell scanning his keys with software that would let me reproduce them with no specialized skills whatsoever. The iPhone app I used wasn’t intended for anything so nefarious: KeyMe was designed to let anyone photograph their keys and upload them to the company’s servers. From there, they can be 3-D printed and mail-ordered in a variety of novelty shapes, from a bottle opener to Kanye West’s head. Or they can be cut from blanks at one of KeyMe’s five kiosks in the New York City area.
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Services like KeyMe, along with competitors like KeysDuplicated and the Belgian Keysave, promise to forever solve the problem of lockouts and lost keys using clever combinations of smartphone scans, automated key-cutting machines and 3D-printing. Like a “forgot my password” function for physical security, they let you upload your coded chunks of metal to the cloud, where you can access and duplicate them, or even email them to a friend staying at your place.
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Next up: Camo keys! Using our patent pending visual and non-visual spectrum camouflage techniques, we make your keys more resistant to scanning!

Maybe those exist, already, as well and I just haven't come across them yet?

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