[Year 12 IT Apps] Why keeping your keys in the freezer can stop thieves breaking into your car

[Andrew Shortell]

fascinating sidebar - I remember that the key to my HJ holden worked in my wife’s HQ but not vice a versa.
Her HQ key unlocked a significant number of other HQs as I discovered in the mid 90s when I had her car (she got the ‘nice’ car)
Whereas the key to my 66 Mini only worked in a few other mini minors

(side side bar:  at least your family was well enough off to have a garage door that locked
			oh dear have I started something - we used to …)

Andrew Shortell
Educator
CRC Melton


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> On 16 Apr 2015, at 4:32 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
> 
> Dammit, sir. Now I'll not get to sleep tonight.
> 
> I wish my Subaru BRZ had the same thief-proof technology I enjoyed with my first motorbike, a Harley-Davidson Aermacchi 350. 
> Cunningly, it only started after being rolled down a steep hill and popping the clutch into second gear.
> I had to remember always to park at the top of a hill if I expected to get to uni on the next day.
> 
> Two personal security sidebars:
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> - My mother had a story of how after shopping at Southland Shopping Centre, she returned to her Morris Minor, unlocked it, drove home - and then realised the stuff in the boot was not hers. She had the wrong car. She returned the car, found hers parked nearby and came back home.
> 
> - For years I have had a worn old key that has unlocked every filing cabinet I have ever come across. And when I was a little tacker I discovered that our garage door key unlocked every garage door in the street. 
> 
> That's how the modern hacker must feel.
> 
> Hola.
> 
> On 16 April 2015 at 15:39, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com <mailto:rgesthuizen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Fascinating security story to share with your IT kids.  "Why keeping your keys in the freezer can stop thieves breaking into your car"
> 
>> http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/why-keeping-your-keys-in-the-freezer-can-stop-thieves-breaking-into-your-car-20150415-1mm25p.html.html <http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/why-keeping-your-keys-in-the-freezer-can-stop-thieves-breaking-into-your-car-20150415-1mm25p.html.html>
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> PS: The fridge is just a faraday cage, I could do much the same thing hiding my keys in the chook shed. The ducks that we keep at home are a great biometric security alarm system if they go looking in there .. 
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> Roland GESTHUIZEN
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