IT folk aren't nearly so shy

Security commentators, myself included, regularly comment on the security patching cycle and the problems associated with it. What we tend not to do, though, is comment on the ‘patching' problem for physical security systems.

This seems a bit bizarre. In the same way that attackers find holes in computer security systems, problems are found with physical security systems such as locks, safes, intruder alarms, and so on. And like the IT security industry, the physical security people regularly attack their products to see how well they resist.

Where the two worlds diverge is regarding the release of information about weaknesses that are discovered. It's almost unheard of for advisories to be released about physical security systems. When Matt Blaze published his excellent paper on safecracking (see www.crypto.com/papers), it was met with cries of despair from the vendor community.

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