May 10, 2005

Take the time to learn it. I was taught it a while ago and can't stop impressing people. What I have noticed though is that on the new Master locks, the real third number is usually one of the numbers that shouldn't work, but turns slightly differently. ... Wooh! First post!
  • Man, I suck at posting. Oh well, the real title is to the right.
  • I thought the section on lockpicking was one of the cooler parts of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! A bit alarming, actually, to hear how easy it is.
  • Of course, there is also the U-locks that many people use on bikes that can be opened by jamming the end of a Bic pen in the lock and twisting.
  • You people are a bunch of thieves and muggers!
  • *blushes*
  • How to crack a Kensington Notebook lock Because knowing is half the battle...
  • but the link about the masterlock cracking widget is FORBIDDEN! the FORBIDDEN link. sort of like, the FORBIDDEN DANCE. heh. i miss the forbidden dance. what were we talking about again?
  • The widget isn't really necessary, you can just do it in your head. I knew a guy that cracked open a masterlock and figured out how it worked well enough to change it to a combination he chose, then welded it shut again.
  • Re: Kensington. Holy schneikes! I sure would feel pretty insecure if I had a laptop with one of those thingies on it if there was a public bathroom within 100 yards, eh?
  • Holy crap. Here I thought I was all secure with my shitty laptop lock as long as I kept Bic-wielding hoodlums away. Now I have to be afraid of toilet paper roll tubing as well? On the plus side, my office mate uses the combo-type Kensington lock. He has since forgotten the combination for the one holding his flat screen monitor down. Hmmm... Now that I think of it, there really is a lot of fancy equipment around here with the key lock instead of the combo variety... How long before some hoodlum is wandering through a university library, popping locks on computer cases, stealing hard drives, memory, etc., then re-locking the cables and absconding? Would probably confuse the hell out of the police at first. Not that I'd do such a thing, of course. Just idle speculation.
  • Not to be rude, but that is the most complicated way to crack a Master lock I have ever seen. There is a method I learned during the late eighties that can get the lock open in seconds, not minutes. Unless they have changed things substantially, it should still work (it did last time I checked, but it has been a few years). It is probably here somewhere, but I can't find it. Paging Jason Scott - do you know which one I'm talking about?