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11-year-old Proves Locks Not So Secure

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the from-the-hands-of-babes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new security column at Engadget details the new 'old' threat of bumping locks. The article goes on to describe and demonstrate an 11-year-old girl bypassing a standard 5-pin lock at a recent DefCon Hacker Convention. The girl had no prior experience and didn't even understand the theory she was applying. Scary!"

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  1. Lets all download the video! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.youtube.com

  2. 11 Year old is understandable by MrRuslan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But did someone genetically engineer a mouse to do such a task yet? And another one to resist arrest but in most mice that is natural I guess.

  3. Video artifacts... by CODiNE · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For those of you here who are into video... maybe you noticed at the end of the demo the blue screen with the names coming up from the bottom. There are lines going down from the words in a striping pattern. Would anyone care to point out how those artifacts are caused? Is it in his analog to digital converter or is it simply from his compression methods?

    Thanks.

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    Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
  4. Re:pen lock picking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hey dude, if you're floppy during your penetration test there's drugs for that now!

  5. Re:Talent is where you find it by vonsneerderhooten · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Chicks?!?! Where!?!