All others, notably baggage handlers and hotel staff, should be unable to surreptitiously open these locks. In theory, only the Transportation Security Agency or other screeners should be able to open a TSA lock using one of their master keys. TSA “Travel Sentry” luggage locks contain a disclosed backdoor which is similar in spirit to what Director Comey desires for encrypted phones. The whole thing neatly illustrates one of the main problems with backdoors, whether in cryptographic systems or physical systems: they’re fragile. It’s now blurred out of the Washington Post story, but the image is still floating around the Internet. Someone recently noticed a Washington Post story on the TSA that originally contained a detailed photograph of all the TSA master keys.
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