Too much hyperbole, especially regarding what "could" happen. Isn't the local pizzeria a dream for a terrorist, since he could feed all his men for a buck a slice? Let's get angry and shut those terrorist-lovers down! (Roll eyes.)<p>(Anyone wanting to get into these locks could pick them in 30 seconds. Locks are for keeping honest people out, not for defending against terrorists. Terrorists with 767s don't need keys to anything. Occupy Wall Street protesters that want to shut down a bank's elevator system will still have to get past security to get to the elevator control panel.)<p>Ironically, the so-called master key only appears to have four pins, two fewer than my apartment. The locks these keys unlock are designed to be secured by other means.
And, by posting high resolution photos, the NY Post has ensured that anyone with access to a 3D printer can easily replicate them for free :P.<p>Not that it really matters since keys have been and pretty much always were security theatre from the very beginning.
In a fluff piece today on Gramercy Park the NY Times published this image: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/09/30/realestate/30JUMP1_SPAN.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2012/09/30/realestate/30JU...</a><p>I suspect they'll be seeing a bit more foot traffic in the future.
The really funny part is that the NYPOST has done far more of a disservice than the guy on eBay.<p>Now the entire internet has pictures of the profile of the key, simply buy some blanks, enlarge the photo til it prints the same size as the blank, and then file the blank to match the profile of the key.
The key set isn't the problem, that apparently you only need five keys is. Having secure keys is at least as important as the security of the lock, and a single key shared for the entire city isn't that.
In college, my friend (who was by no means an expert) picked the lock on the elevator with a paperclip and a shim. These "locks" are only designed to keep out the honest people.