Bic as picklock, continued
A couple of weeks ago, Mark posted about a guy who picked his Kryptonite bike lock with a ball point pen. Apparently, the story worried another man who recognized that the design of the bike lock was similar to the one on his Stack-On Products gun cabinet. He called Stack-On and was assured that his arsenal was safe from a pen pick. He proved them wrong."...the man went to a Staples store to buy a box of the Bic pens that were specifically cited as the break-in tool. He pulled the ink cartridge out of a pen and widened one end of the barrel slightly by scraping it with his pocket knife, just like a Web site instructed.Link (via Fark)
“I had run home for lunch and was in a hurry,” he said. “Within 30 seconds, I was into the safe with that pen.”
Update: BB reader Seanessy Sommerfeld points us to news of a class action lawsuit brewing in British Columbia over the Kryptonite vulnerability. Link
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