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Shenzhen-based 3D printer provider Snapmaker has unveiled its newly released Snapmaker 2. Of course, none of those companies are to blame for following the TSA's master key guidelines. The real security blunder, as Berkeley computer security researcher Nicholas Weaver noted after the key photos were first published , was made by the TSA and the Washington Post , who released the photos on the Post's website.

Publishing photos of sensitive keys, after all, is a well-understand screwup in the world of physical security, where researchers have shown for years that a key can be decoded and reproduced even from a photo taken from as far away as feet and at an angle.

The Github release of those printable master key files, according to one of the lockpickers who decoded the master key photo, is meant to prove to anyone who uses the TSA-approved locks that they should no longer expect them to offer much security. Even so, the TSA's master key leak doesn't exactly represent a critical security crisis, argues University of Pennsylvania computer science professor and noted lock picker Matt Blaze.

The TSA-approved luggage locks were never very high security devices to begin with. But Blaze says that the photo leak and subsequent 3-D printing demonstration does show just how quickly a theoretical slip-up can turn into a real security compromise. And he says that the TSA should have known better than to allow its master keys to be photographed. Once a single photograph showed how the key teeth were patterned, however, the cat was out of the bag.

This is why backdoor encryption of the sort espoused by various government agencies is so incredibly dangerous. In the real world, keys get photographed, spies discover and leak codes, and even top-level cryptographic systems like the German Enigma of WW2 can be brought down by poor security practices, imperfect operation, or strokes of luck. Hackers have proven adept at chaining together personal information to create attacks against individuals by exploiting weaknesses of multiple services.

Airport luggage may seem pedestrian compared to the advanced hacks that swarm across the modern web, but spear phishing — the practice of fooling users into revealing critical data about themselves to a person they think represents a legitimate business — is alive and well.

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