Monday, June 01, 2009

Marc Tobias - ultimate lock-picker

I've always had a bit of a fascination with lock-picking. I'm not sure why - it could be because it was so much damn fun in Thief 3 (a series of my all-time favourite games). It could be because no matter how many times I read it, Lock Bumping is just too frightening easy.

Ceck out the video below of Marc Tobias, scourge of the 'safe' and hacker of high (physical security). He busts open Medeco locks (apparently the name in high security locks) in less than 10 minutes each, and lock bumps one in 8 seconds. In fact, the original Wired Techbiz post on which I read about Marc Tobias can be quoted as saying that these locks are "the lock famous for protecting places like military installations and the homes of American presidents and British royals". Shocking :)

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