[jliechti1]

>"I would like to point out that the '$30 microprocessor' in 2012 would have needed a refrigerator size computer 20 years ago when the Onity system was designed. Twenty years from now all of our current 'state of the art' security will be hackable with nothing more powerful than a 2032 edition pocket calculator."

Just read this comment on the site - perhaps a bit exaggerated, but I think a valid point nonetheless. Of course, Onity should have done something about the flaw.

[daeken]

Hah, I didn't see that comment on the story. It's funny, but it's completely untrue. The chip may have cost you $5 (rather than the $0.05 it costs now), but a PIC from 1993 -- when Onity released the HT locks, and they actually used for the locks themselves -- would've opened them just as well as a modern PIC/AVR/Propeller.

If someone didn't know about and exploit this flaw in 1998 (5 years later), I'd be downright flabbergasted. It's just way, way, way too simple.