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11/13/2007

“New” Lockpicking Technique

Filed under: Criticism, Marginalia, and Notes,Fun,Fun Work,News and Current Events,Red Herrings,The Dark Side,The Network Geek at Home — Posted by the Network Geek during the Hour of the Hare which is terribly early in the morning or 6:10 am for you boring, normal people.
The moon is Waning Gibbous

A “new” technique that’s more than three years old.

Huh. So, there was this article on MSN recently titled Lock Bumping: A new burglary threat. Now, I remember reading about this in 2600, the Hacker’s Quarterly a really, really long time ago. And, I seem to recall it was a topic at DefCon a number of years ago, not to mention that Bruce Schneier talked about it in 2005.
But, what gets me is that the article itself mentions that the technique was mad popular by a video in Germany back in 2004.

So, how is this a “new” technique again?

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