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Hack NFC Door Locks

I can see in the logs that people sometimes come to this site with interesting searches. A recent interesting search was “Hack NFC Door Locks”. Well, since there is interest in the subject, why not? Let’s talk about NFC, contactless smart card and RFID door locks, shall we not? The actual technology used for the ...

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Philosophy of door locks

When working on security, there is something extremely important to keep in mind at all times. We are not trying to make systems impenetrable. We are trying to make it real, real hard for the attacker, that’s all. If an attacker has physical access to your system, you lost. All measures, passwords, firewalls, everything is ...

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