Locks and full disclosure

The full disclosure versus bug secrecy debate is a lot larger than computer security. Matt Blaze's article on master-key locking systems in this issue (page 24) is a case in point. It turns out that the ways we've learned to conceptualize security and attacks in the computer world are directly applicable to other areas of security like door locks. But the most interesting part of this story is that the locksmith community went ballistic after Blaze published his research on master-key lock vulnerability.