[skwirl]

The bad analogy can be extended to mechanical devices, such as a lock. The lock is also an automated system, and it is a system that will also perfectly do what it is told with even higher fidelity than a computer due to its relative simplicity.

I with my lockpick tell pin 1 to move up so many millimeters, I tell pin 2 to move up so many millimeters, and so on, and suddenly the lock opens. Suddenly I'm in, and it should be legal because the lock wasn't designed as well as it could have been and because all I did was follow a legal protocol with the lock.

Bad analogies like this are so common here when discussing technology issues, and it is a never ending irritating game of come up with the least-worst (but still bad) analogy. People here also often confuse their understanding of technology with legal/ethical sagacity, which is laughable.