The inconspicuous lock hacking deviceis an adaption of one demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in July by Cody Brocious, a hacker and software developer for Mozilla, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Onity locks, a cheap and popular hotel room lock that the company says are used on at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.
Of the big three, Nintendo is slated to lock in more launch details for its Wii U device, which is expected to offer game developers the ability to offer apps for both the console and the wireless tablet controller through a Nintendo App Store.
One of its chompees is the traditional work of device-driven lock-ins (in the five years of the Xbox, a consumer might have gone through five phones, installing the same core apps on at least the last three or four).