There are two competing “brands” of TSA approved locks, Safe Skies and Travel Sentry. As a result, people started looking for a solution to make both the TSA and flyers happy(ish). This led to a lot of unhappy flyers who had their locks cut off. First, a little background information.Īs a response to the September 11th, 2001 attacks, starting on Januthe TSA mandated that all checked bags at airports be openable for screening. However, if all that is keeping something obscure is a thin piece of metal that any adversary can attack in the privacy of their own workshop, it’s not very obscure. You could even argue all security is through obscurity, since knowing a password, secret, code, or encryption key will get you into just about anything.
#Tsa locks master key password
Security through obscurity can work if the information being used is truly obscure, like a very long password or encryption key. Really, we don’t need photos of the keys to make master keys like the TSA have all one has to do is just take apart a lock and use what is learned from it to create a key to open all locks using that same master key.
This, along with articles about people duplicating keys from pictures taken of them or 3d printing keys has people concerned. Recently a lot of news and commotion has been made about photos of the TSA master keys being leaked online by the press. While it’s common knowledge to locksport enthusiasts how weak TSA approved locks are, the average traveler is mostly unaware of it. By TrustedSec in Physical Security, Security Testing & AnalysisĮvery lockpicker knows that the TSA approved Travel Sentry/Safe Skies locks are garbage, but if you don’t want your normal checked bags to have their locks cut off, there are only so many options (that said, sometimes they still cut them off).
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