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Topic	Which of these 'bypassing security' writing tropes do you find the silliest?
Yellow 10/03/20 7:05:08 PM #24:	Kyuubi4269 posted... Alternatively, electronic doors typically are held shut so a power cut doesn't trap people in. That's not how they work. I know that because I'm familiar with them. The vast majority of them require a signal, the poor ones require a DC signal and the better ones send a key (that you can actually reproduce with a recording device). Sometimes they send an encrypted key that changes based on the time. But a logical response to that would be "cutting off power to open an electronic lock is a security risk that makes the lock useless even by poor lock standards". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUE6MHNOrvM --- why am I even here <cite>Yellow posted [p:945418378] in Which of t... [t:79012810]...</cite> <quote>Kyuubi4269 posted... </cite> <quote>Alternatively, electronic doors typically are held shut so a power cut doesn't trap people in.</quote>That's not how they work. I know that because I'm familiar with them. The vast majority of them require a signal, the poor ones require a DC signal and the better ones send a key (that you can actually reproduce with a recording device). Sometimes they send an encrypted key that changes based on the time. But a logical response to that would be "cutting off power to open an electronic lock is a security risk that makes the lock useless even by poor lock standards". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUE6MHNOrvM --- why am I even here</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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