Cracking high-security locks is child's play: experts

AFP ^ | Aug 10, 2008 | Unknown

[decimon]

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - Security specialists on Sunday showed that cracking top-rated locks said to secure the US Pentagon and Britain's royal family is child's play.

Marc Tobias was in a sea of hackers practicing lock picking at a DefCon gathering in Las Vegas when he easily opened Medeco's flagship lock with a paper clip and a key cut from plastic sheets in a Shrinky Dinks toy.

"We think this is a pretty serious threat, and the government guys here we've been talking to agree," Tobias told AFP.

[decimon]

When the nose pickers are the lock pickers is when you have a problem.

[mad_as_he$$]

Locks are to keep honest people honest. If a man made it a man can defeat it.

[driftdiver]

“Security specialists on Sunday showed that cracking top-rated locks said to secure the US Pentagon and Britain’s royal family is child’s play.”

nonsense, anything truly sensitive does not rely on a simple lock.

[Red Badger]

...he easily opened Medeco's flagship lock with a paper clip and a key cut from plastic sheets in a Shrinky Dinks toy.

They ought to make a TV series about someone who can do this kind of stuff.......................

[Tax-chick]

*snert*

[Vaduz]

480 voltd work just fine thank you.

[Vaduz]

480 volts work just fine thank you.

[mad_as_he$$]

lol true but the lawsuits are a pain !!!

[TXnMA]

I assume you mean 480 volts applied to the lock as a security measure. That would make the lock-picking career of someone with a paper clip in their fingers interesting — but short... ‘-)