Any comments on the Wired magazine, February, 2005 article entitled "The Lock Busters"? It describes the 3rd annual Dutch lock picking contest in Sneek, Holland.
In one impressive performance, Arthur Buhl ("The Arthurmeister") picks a Lips 8362C (that's a Dutch made high security lock) in 20 seconds.
The article should appear online in a month (got to sell the print versions first!) at
How have you been Scott ? Haven't seen you contribute for a while.
g'day
Can Buhl repeat this on demand with different samples of the lock?
If not, the 20 seconds could be luck.
Hi Key!
I've been gathering stuff for my vault door website. I'll post here when I finish the next big upgrade.
I see Mr. Blaze has been the subject of much debate here. In the computer security field the traditional thinking has been to make everything public in the hope that there wil be a lot of free high quality reviews. That's one of the advantages of open source code. However, I'm starting to hear more experts take the locksmith's traditional stand of keeping at least some things secret. Mostly that applies to keeping quiet about security holes until they are patched. It's viewed as one more layer in a multi-layer security plan.
For what it's worth, I think mechanical locking devices are WAY ahead of software and electronic devices in terms of reliability, resistance to attack, etc. But us bit heads are working on that.
Scott
checked out your page. you have some good pics of some safes & vaults. enjoyed the visit..
g'day
agree.. VERY nice pictures.. some of them there I have had to work on, or very similar.. pressure doors are SO much fun.. --Shiva--
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