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UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. "We built our key duplication software system to show people that their keys are not inherently secret," said Stefan Savage, the computer science professor from UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering who led the student-run project. "Perhaps this was once a reasonable assumption, but advances in digital imaging and optics have made it easy to duplicate someone's keys from a distance without them even noticing." Professor Savage presents this...

I should never be shocked by the bad manners on the left but this stunt just might haunt them more than Wellstone's funeral. There is a key rattling stunt/taunt growing in popularity amongst the Democrats. Some may try to play it off as mocking him for having so many houses but the truth is that the jingling keys are to imitate the prison guards at the Hanoi Hilton. Whatever they're thinking they better stop it soon because even apolitical types will side with McCain out of sympathy if for no other reason. I learned the true meaning of this key...

HOW TO START YOUR CAR WITH A DOG (A breakdown patrol man who came to the rescue of a woman motorist has managed to get her car started using her dog.) How do you start a car with a dog? I guess you can stick its tail in the ignition and see if it starts or maybe attach the car to the dog like a rickshaw and pop it into gear when it gets rolling fast enough. What other solutions could there be? (Juliette Piesley, 39, had changed the battery in her electronic key...

Today eight colleagues and I are releasing a significant new research result. We show that disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by using them to defeat three popular disk encryption products: BitLocker, which comes with Windows Vista; FileVault, which comes with MacOS X; and dm-crypt, which is used with Linux. The research team includes J. Alex Halderman, Seth D. Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A. Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten. Our site has links to the...

Singer Alicia Keys, left and former U.S. President Bill Clinton participate in The Clinton Global Initiative & MTV's 'Giving - Live At The Apollo' Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007 in New York.

FLORENCE, Ore. --A woman was arrested and charged with arson and burglary after police say she set fire to the home of a neighbor she thought had stolen her keys. Sgt. Clint Riley of the Lane County Sheriff's Office said the 23-year-old woman later found her keys hanging from her pants pocket. The woman was being held in the Lane County Jail in lieu of $350,000 bail. According to a police report, the woman told a deputy that after discovering her keys missing, she broke into her neighbors' trailer, and began trashing the place.

Last night while out on the town with some friends our church's office manager's keys were stolen. Replacing the locks for her apartment or re-keying them will cost her under a $100. The real problem is her car keys . . . she had only one key for her 2001 Lexus . . . the one that was stolen! Today she has learned that to get a new key for her car from the Lexus dealer will cost her $265 . . . but that is just for the ONE key and it will still not work until the car's...

Leaders in Longmont Try to Explain What Happened LONGMONT -- Officials in the city of Longmont are trying to explain how an illegal immigrant got master keys to some of the city’s secure buildings, including the police department building. The Longmont Daily Times-Call reports that police arrested the man earlier this week outside of a building. Investigators say he lied to them about his identity. But officers said they recognized him, because they say he was part of the crew that had just cleaned the police department building. Investigators say Jesus Orrantia, 23, is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, and...

A friend sent around a YouTube video of a local newscast discussing something called "lock bumping". Apparently there's an onslaught of websites dedicated to showing people how to EASILY defeat virtually any common house lock including deadbolts by doing some special cuts in standard keys and then tapping the key to open the door. I found it a VERY alarming, and wanted to share this with you all... Here are some links to check it out for yourself. This is the link to the YouTube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr23tpWX8lMThis is a site that shows you how to do it — great for the...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida diver shot a large grouper with a spear gun then apparently drowned when the fish sped into a hole, entangling the man in the line attached to the spear, investigators said on Monday. The 42-year-old man, whose name was withheld, was free-diving in about 25 feet (7.5 metres) of water off the lower Florida Keys on Saturday and speared a Goliath Grouper, Monroe County Sheriff's Detective Mark Coleman said. "It looks like the fish wrapped the line attached to the spear around the victim's wrist. The fish then went into a hole in a coral...

5/18/2006 - ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AFPN) -- For forensic science consultants at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations' 33rd Field Investigations Squadron, criminal investigations in the Air Force begin at the crime scene. The work of Air Force forensic science consultants is similar to that of criminal investigators in the television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” said the squadron's Special Agent Tam Reed. “However, unlike CSI, we don’t get lab results back within an hour,” said Agent Reed, an AFOSI agent since joining the Air Force in 2000. The squadron doesn’t have its own lab for processing...

Abu Khalil, 80-year-old living in Jordan holds keys to his pre-1948 Palestine house at the al-Hussein refugee camp in Amman June 20, 2005. United Nations is marking World Refugee Day on June 20. Jordan hosts around 1.8 million Palestinian refugees in camps across the country. REUTERS/Majed Jaber Email Photo Print Photo Um Al-Abed, 70-year-old living in Jordan holds keys to her pre-1948 Palestine house at the al-Hussein refugee camp in Amman June 20, 2005. United Nations is marking World Refugee Day on June 20. Jordan hosts around 1.8 million Palestinian refugees in camps across the country. REUTERS/Majed Jaber Angelina Jolie,...

College tuitions have increased at a rate of 2 or 3 percent more than general inflation over the past thirty years, according to Cornell University's Ron Ehrenberg. This means that the real cost of going to college has nearly doubled in that span. When a price increases by this magnitude, it is important not to lose track of the law of supply and demand. A clear implication of basic economics is that it is impossible to explain the increase in college costs by looking at only one factor. This type of sustained price increase can only occur if both demand...

I was sitting in my study tonight when I heard something at my front door. I already knew that my family was in bed, so I retrieved my pistol before going to investigate. As I got closer to the foyer I could hear the doorknob jingling. The motion lights were on, so I was sure that someone was trying to get into the house. I stopped at the doorway into our dining room where I had a clear view of the front door. I cocked my revolver, aimed at the door, and waited. Suddenly this swings open and this guy...

Camera rolls as sandbar visitors hang from hooks BY STEVE GIBBS Upper Keys Staff Writer ISLAMORADA — Now they're hanging themselves by meat hooks at the sandbar. On July 12, officers from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, two Islamorada paramedics and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a call at the Whale Harbor sandbar, a popular party hangout with a reputation for sometimes over-the-top behavior. What they saw shocked them. Five young people had erected a bamboo tripod, consisting of 15-foot-long poles with a block and tackle attached to the apex. A line extended...

Skeleton keysBy studying ancient bones, scientists in Yorkshire have gained an insight into our Iron Age diet. So why did we stop eating seafood for 4,000 years? Simon Hadlington investigates 14 January 2004 Beneath the bright white lights of the isotope laboratory in the department of archaeological sciences at Bradford University, Mandy Jay rummages through a drawer and produces a small, sealed polythene sack containing half-a-dozen shards of a pitted, yellowing material. They are bones; fragments of femur excavated from an Iron Age burial site in east Yorkshire. For Jay and her fellow researchers in the laboratory, bones such as...

KEY WEST -- A herpeslike virus has infected up to 10 percent of baby lobsters in the Florida Keys, causing some fisheries experts to wonder whether the disease explains dips in lobster catches in recent years. Biologists doubt that the disease can be transferred to humans but have alerted the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just in case. In all but two cases, the virus has been detected only in lobsters that are less than 6 months old, not yet at reproduction age, and smaller than 3 inches, the minimum length at which they can legally be caught....

Experts: Looters Had Keys to Iraq Museum By JOCELYN GECKER .c The Associated Press PARIS (AP) - Experts say that what seemed like random looting in Baghdad - the pillaging of treasures dating back 5,000 years in human history - was in fact a carefully planned theft, and the stolen artifacts may already be in the system that traffics in stolen artifacts to collectors in Europe, the United States and Japan. FBI agents, meanwhile, have been sent to Iraq to help recover the stolen antiquities, while in Washington, three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee resigned to...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Last week's looting of the Iraq National Museum, which saw numerous items disappear from a vast collection spanning eight millennia of Mesopotamian history, has provoked world-wide outcry -- and criticism of the U.S. military for its failure to protect Iraq's priceless cultural heritage.</p>

Guess they didnt read the WSJ article today that the looting was an inside job US Culture Advisers Resign Over Iraq Museum Looting By Niala Boodhoo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two cultural advisers to the Bush administration have resigned in protest over the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the wholesale looting of priceless treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum. Martin Sullivan, who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years, and panel member Gary Vikan said they resigned because the U.S. military had had advance warning of the danger to Iraq (news - web sites)'s historical treasures. "We...

PARIS, April 17 (AFP) - Much of the looting of treasures at Iraq's national museum was carried out by organised gangs who traffic in works of ancient art, according to experts at a United Nations conference called on Thursday to examine the war-damage to the country's cultural heritage. "It looks as if at least part of the theft was a very deliberate, planned action," said McGuire Gibson, of Chicago University's Oriental Institute, who is president of the American Association for Research in Baghdad. "Probably (it was done) by the same sorts of gangs that have been paying for the destruction...

<p>PARIS (AP) -- Some of the looters who ravaged Iraqi antiquities had keys to museum vaults and were able to take pieces from safes, experts said Thursday at an international meeting.</p> <p>The U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO, gathered some 30 art experts and cultural historians in Paris on Thursday to assess the damage to Iraqi museums and libraries looted in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion.</p>

Coral Reef Task Force Backs Florida Coastal Cleanup WASHINGTON, DC, February 27, 2003 (ENS) - Today, in Washington, DC, the United States Coral Reef Task Force adopted a resolution that will improve water quality in the Florida Keys, while helping the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico upgrade ineffective wastewater treatment systems. Established in 1998, the Coral Reef Task Force includes the heads of 11 federal agencies and the governors of seven states, territories, and commonwealths. Their mission is to address the coral reef crisis and develop and implement coordinated efforts by mapping and monitoring U.S. coral reefs, conducting...

Keys town fights border station Locals fear loss of their identity BY JENNIFER BABSON jbabson@herald.com The tiniest city in the Florida Keys -- population 186 in the high season -- is taking on U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft in a battle that locals say is intended to preserve their patch of paradise. Angry residents of Layton filed suit after the U.S. Border Patrol announced plans to open a new station, including an interim migrant processing center, in the mile-long municipality between Islamorada and Marathon. 'The mood in Layton is, `Hey, whatever it takes,' '' said Hal Halenza, 72, a city...

TROPICAL STORM ISIDORE DISCUSSION NUMBER 14 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL A DROPSONDE JUST BEFORE 12Z REPORTED MEAN WINDS IN ITS LOWEST LAYERS OF 75 KT. ADJUSTMENT OF THIS OB TO THE SURFACE GIVE 59 KT...AND IS THE BASIS FOR AN INCREASE IN THE ADVISORY WINDS TO 60 KT. A MICROWAVE OVERPASS AT 12Z SHOWED A PRETTY SOLID EYEWALL. THE NEXT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT WILL BE IN THE SYSTEM AT 18Z...AND THEY WILL PROBABLY FIND A HURRICANE. THE CYCLONE HAS NOT MOVED MUCH OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS WHILE THIS EYEWALL HAS BEEN FORMING...BUT AN AVERAGE MOTION OVER THE LAST 6...

Posted on Sun, Apr. 21, 2002 BY JENNIFER BABSON jbabson@herald.com BOCA CHICA KEY - They worry about allergies and immune system difficulties and ailments yet to be diagnosed. A few bolted for points north; others shuttered windows and stayed inside. Word that the U.S. Army was conducting biological and chemical detection tests off Key West last week -- using a crop duster to spray what it says are benign substances over a small swath of the Gulf -- set alarm bells ringing for some on this island chain. ''Monday I had my house closed up all day and the air...