In one single image, mainstream media show their utter ignorance of security

Re:In one single image, mainstream media show their utter ig... by mikeash on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:22AM (#11267494)

It's not the newspaper's responsibility to keep secrets. That's actually pretty much the opposite of their responsibility. If the key was intended to be secret, then the organizations that use it should have done a better job keeping it that way.

Somewhat related, it wasn't that long ago that the TSA published their own master keys:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/tsa_master_ke...

And here's a case where a prison put a picture of their master key on the cover of a booklet given to every prisoner:

http://www.news.com.au/national/killer-escaped-prison-after-...

Mainstream media isn't showing their utter ignorance of security so much as showing everybody else's.

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Re:In one single image, mainstream media show their utter ig... by SixSigma on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:39AM (#11267635)

I did some video work in a couple of prisons. We had to sit with the prison security team afterwards and watch all the tapes looking for images of keys - they had already been burned to the £m before.

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