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Will it open magnetic door locks in, say, office buildings? What about a skillfully placed regular magnet?

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Can of compressed air can often set-off the motion detector on the other side of the door that lets people out. That's according to the pen-test people at defcon.

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really? does there HAVE to be dust or something? I mean what is MOTION detection anyway? Sight? Light? based? movement of AIR? motion, but WHAT is detected?

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Some of them are temperature change motion. I think the myth busters used a glass sheet to defeat one.

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I imagine the real world applications are varied.

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Does it require a LARGE power consumption from some source?

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I don't know.

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Depends on the lock.

RFID cards/ID sends out a signal and requires a specific response.

The reader could be hardened to withstand some low level EMP attack, and a standard magnet would do very little - unless you were to oscillate it at a very high frequency to mimic an EMP.