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Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-york-bike-thieves-not-impressed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Once upon a time, a magic marker was able to defeat the Key2Audio copy protection scheme of older Sony CDs. Now, it has been shown that a Bic pen can easily open several models of Kryptonite U-locks. Please patch your systems, or install a tracking device on your bikes!"

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  1. It _IS_ a design flaw. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The pins in the lock are vunlerable to being raked because they're all set in roughly the same position. If they were disparate, you couldn't successfully rake them (except if you were very lucky and could bite chunks out of your bic pen to match the right key :)