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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Posting 🌶🌶🌶 takes on responsible disclosure from my 1853 book, "The Construction of Locks". Just got back from the Great Exhibition.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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"The Pick Lock Question", From The Times, 2 July 1851. "We have no doubt that the taste for lock-picking - which is already quite common enough - will extend among a class where perfection in the operation is not at all to be desired." The American Gentleman mentioned was Hobbs. pic.twitter.com/vY0rkC9fcw
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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If a room be necessarily shielded from intrusion, it becomes no less necessary that the shield should be really worthy of its name, trusty and reliable.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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The discussion, truthfully conducted, must lead to public advantage: the discussion stimulates curiosity, and the curiosity stimulates invention.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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The grumbling with which the first part of this proposition was received would alone have sufficed to lead to a suspicion of its truth, if the large number of new locks that have actually appeared had not confirmed it.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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It was no doubt annoying to be told, on good authority, that the machines on which we so much prided ourselves were wrong in principle; and that our locks, in order to afford the degree of security which are expected of such contrivances, must be re-constructed.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Nothing but a partial and limited view of the question could lead to the opinion that harm can result: if there be harm, it will be much more than counterbalanced by good.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Professor Cowper expressed his strong conviction that by exposing the defects, the cause as well as the public in general, would be benefited; [..], inventors would be stimulated to supply the defects, and the art [..] would be raised accordingly.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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The dishonest are tolerably certain to be the first to apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of the knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fallacy.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Let us then learn the art of opening locked doors, in order that we may acquire that of securing them in such a way as to leave little or nothing to be feared on account of their security.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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But is there not this danger, that at the same time we shall be giving lessons to the thieves? It is not very probable that they will seek instruction of us, or that they have any need of it; they are greater masters in the art of opening doors than we can pretend to be.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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We employ these stray expressions concerning adulteration, debasement, roguery, and so forth, simply as a mode of illustrating a principle—the advantage of publicity.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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The unscrupulous have the command of much of this kind of knowledge without our aid; and there is moral and commercial justice in placing on their guard those who might possibly suffer therefrom.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Much more good than harm is effected by stating candidly and scientifically the various methods by which such debasement has been, or can be produced.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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So likewise in respect to bread, sugar, coffee, tea, wine, beer, spirits, vinegar, cheap silks, cheap woollens—all such articles as are susceptible of debasement by admixture with cheaper substances.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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A vain fear—milkmen knew all about it before, whether they practised it or not; and the exposure only taught purchasers the necessity of a little scrutiny and caution, leaving them to obey this necessity or not, as they pleased.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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Some time ago, when the reading public was alarmed at being told how London milk is adulterated, timid persons deprecated the exposure, on the plea that it would give instructions in the art of adulterating milk.
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Alfred Charles Hobbs
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It cannot be too earnestly urged, that an acquaintance with real facts will, in the end, he better for all parties.
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