Re: Have you heard about the "Unlocker"

[G. Morgan <alarmpro@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 Jan 2007 14:10:56 -0800, "tourman" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Let me stick my oar in the water again ! Lets forget about their profit
>motive for a moment. Lets just say for the sake of argument that you
>were able to get the installer code with this Unlocker device. How
>legitimate would it be on their part to sell you hardware that would
>allow you the user of their machine to discover some other company's
>installer code, and which would leave in some cases all that company's
>panels wide open to some other hostile company AND which could be used
>to unlock legitimately locked and not-yet-paid for boards. I don't
>think any dealer here would argue with the statement that no one has a
>right to any other dealer's proprietary installer code. So how
>comfortable would you feel knowing someone else can buy an off the
>shelf device that could do this !
>
>I'm only thinking out loud, but it seems to me there could be some
>liabiliy problems here on their part if they were to do that as well.
>
>Just another thought on the matter....


If anyone really wants to know another's lockout code it's easy enough
to get.  How about just giving the panel and keypad to your kid to
punch each of the possible 10,000 combinations on a 4 digit code until
they get it - reward them with a new video game or something...


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-Graham

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