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The Ultimate Lock Picker
- grinich 17y agoGreat article. But Ralph Nader with a slim-jim? Really?
- erlanger 17y agoRalph Nader isn't even half this cool.
- sachinag 17y agoPerhaps today. But in the past, General Motors was so threatened by him that they sent hookers to seduce him. His settlement with GM funded Public Citizen. Ralph Nader was a total badass once upon a time.
- erlanger 17y agoI don't think that anything's as badass as pissing people off by picking locks, and not even for crime.
- anamax 17y ago> Ralph Nader was a total badass once upon a time. Unfortunately, he was also completely wrong about the Corvair. And he was either dishonest or ignorant. (He claimed to be concerned about auto safety but ignored cars that actually were death-traps by comparison, such as the VW beetle.)
- dmix 17y agoI would expect military facilities and corporate headquarters have more security measures then locked doors. Still a very interesting article.
- noodle 17y agoa full-fledged unauthorized intruder would use more than just lock picks. but social engineering can't get you past a locked door. which is why people buy expensive locks.
- showerst 17y agoLike the article says, the point isn't that a locked door stops an intruder, it's that they're counted on to slow down an intruder for a minimum amount of time. If your security guard walks past a door once every 8 minutes (assuming it would take a minimum of 10 to pick the lock) and the door can actually be compromised in 15 seconds, you have a problem.
- TallGuyShort 17y agoYou'd also expect military networks to protect against SQL injection, but apparently they don't.
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- blhack 17y agoI really very highly recommend that every geek/hacker out there learn lock picking. There is a row of padlocks on my desk at work that I play with every time I get stuck on a coding problem. It's really helpful :). (I also freed my brother's bike from the clutches of the bike rack after he lost the key to it a week ago). Go take a walk and look down. What you're looking for are street sweeper bristles. They'll look like sticks, but unnaturally straight. You can use of one to make a tension wrench, and the others to make your picks.
- sown 17y agoHackers are people of secrets.
- kurtosis 17y agoPicking a bike lock is pretty impressive - I had to resort to a battery powered masonry saw when I was in this situation. In high school I made my own set of lock picks only I used hacksaw blades and a bench grinder. One of my friends in school managed to acquire a pick-gun and it worked okay.