Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at DefCon
This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis and Matt Fiddler who have been cracking locks at DefCon for several years, also defeated an electro-mechanical lock, two deadbolts, and an electronic safe.
“But the problem with this lock design is so elementary, frankly it defies belief. ”
“The entire security of this system rests on tiny little sliders that are being warped in this process,” says Tobias, noting that the crack doesn’t take any expertise to conduct.
Tobias says that the standards are part of the problem, since they don’t test for many real-world lock-cracking techniques.
“You read the packaging and yes they are certified as grade-one. But they ought to be putting on the package that there are tools and techniques that can open these locks in 30 seconds or less,” he says. “Obviously they won’t do that, because no one will buy their locks.”
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/lock-cracks/
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