Key duplication made easy, at range

My first thought when reading the article below was how to use this technology for nefarious purposes but my roommate works long hours and had a hard time getting his only copy of a rare motorcycle key-type made at one of the only two places that make them in San Francisco. Imagine if he could just email a photo of a key to someplace and have them make it and mail it to him...damn, that's not a bad business concept.

UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

In another example, they used a five inch telephoto lens to capture images from the roof of a campus building and duplicate keys sitting on a café table about 200 feet away.