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Post by Security on Aug 7, 2006 4:00:15 GMT -5
physorg.com/news74137040.html Locks commonly used at homes and businesses worldwide were so easy to pick that children could do it, computer hackers practicing the skill were shown on Sunday.
Putting bump keys in typical pin tumbler locks and giving them a whack sent shock waves that jarred pins into position for opening, Tobias showed AFP.
"My old friend Isaac Newton 350 years ago figured out bumping," Tobias said, likening it to the principle of every action having an equal and opposite reaction. "It is just that there were no locks with pins in them."
"It's a very simple premise."
Tobias began calling attention to the vulnerability in the United States about two years ago, after colleagues did the same in The Netherlands.
The technique could be used to open almost any lock, from weighty ones used by urban merchants to secure pull-down gates to home door locks and those on the approximately five million US post office boxes, Tobias told AFP.
"These locks are all over the world," Tobias said. "There isn't a lock in France I can't open
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Post by Security on Aug 25, 2006 20:21:26 GMT -5
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