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The Lockdown: Locked, But Maybe Secure

Engadget has a great post on lock picking.

I described a method of rapidly compromising the security of almost all of the pin tumbler locks in this country and just about everywhere else in the world. This technique was punctuated by the actions of an eleven year old girl that I interviewed at Defcon 14 in Las Vegas this past August. As a result, a tremendous amount of media coverage on the security (or more to the point the insecurity) of mechanical locks has been generated, achieving the purpose for which I and my associates decided to publicize the vulnerability: public awareness.

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