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- From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: "Sneakers" -- action/adventure movie about Cryptography
- Message-ID: <Sep.13.20.55.01.1992.21960@cadenza.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 00:55:01 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.160057.10250@sugra.uucp>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng) writes:
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- >Now, how does one put tension on an electronic lock? :-)
-
- Easy! 150 KV across any exposed metal. That's high tension!
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- Seriously, can you open those things by using an electromagnet
- external to the lock? If the hasp is magnetic and isn't held in place
- by a separate catch, I'd tend to think so. But then I guess it'd be
- free to spring back, making it vulnerable to carding.
-
- - Steve (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).
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