The untold tragedy of the Diebold minibar key scandal
…is that the poor minibar vendors are getting tarred with the same brush! Giorgio comments below on the vast unfairness of criticizing the security model of the publicly-available minibar key [I'm paraphrasing, and leaving out a lot of links to, I assume, Giorgio's minibar company]. I mean no slur against the fine minibar people – I fully understand that the security requirements of a hotel minibar are completely different from those of a voting machine on which the future government of the most powerful country in the world depend.
But look – Diebold is actually making the minibar people look bad. They could have picked any minimally-secure locking mechanism as the backbone for their easy-tamper architecture – like a Kryptonite bike lock, for instance, or the sheet-metal key on a low-end diary.
But no, they had to mess with the minibar folks, and they’re PISSED.
