On the trip to Wisconsin, I picked up the latest Wired magazine, and what I didn't read on the plane has been whittled away in bathroom increments. Towards the the back was an interesting article on master lockpicker Marc Weber Tobias, who challenged high security lock company Medeco's claim that its locks are "bump-proof" (that is, that they can't be simply broken by filing down a key, inserting it, and tapping it, sending a shock down the metal that makes the pins jump).
Medeco launched an aggressive campaign to market its products to people who were worried about bump keys...and Tobias showed that their locks aren't substantially harder to bump than cheaper models from competitors. Medeco sent Wired a note that said Tobias's claims were true and implied that Wired might be sued for publishing them, so Wired set up a test, and then Medeco raised a flurry of vague, lame objections to the test. But the test speaks for itself -- the Medecos fly open at Tobias's caress. Read more here about how safe top secret documents, nuclear materials, and all the scary stuff you don't want to see fall into the wrong hands can.
So easy, even a child can do it!
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