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While impressive, after watching his videos it becomes apparent it's a vulnerability in that one particular model of lock. Not quite as impressive.

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I thought it was most interesting because it shows an automated mechanical sensing device that exploits a common lock. Many other types of locks can be picked by a human using sensory feedback and some basic techniques. It seems like not too big a jump to see this kind of device being built for other locks and even a more general purpose device being built for a wide range of locks.

Metasploit for devices. With drones, ascenders and brute force, physical security is dead. Anything too tedious for a human will be done by a robot. Witness the touch screen robots that can unlock numeric passwords on smart phones.

The next step up is to make it more general. Put a microphone in contact with the lock and listen. Upgrade the CPU to a Raspberry Pi or have it talk to a smartphone. That could work for locks up to medium-grade safe locks.

Not just a microphone but an array of microphones, use a parallella to deconvolve signal. Based on known mechanism designs one could almost image the lock internals in realtime.

You, sir, are an evil genius.

I wondered if other passive methods (radiography) would be applicable but they all seem to rely upon having a sensor behind the subject. I suppose your suggestion would be something like sonar, however I cannot find any clear references to the difficulties of the applications of such techniques through solids. Did find this interesting tidbit, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-frogman_techniques#Ultraso...

Thank you. Dr Evil is my hero.

You might like, http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enab...

and

https://epic.org/privacy/smartgrid/smart_meter.pdf

http://www.im.ethz.ch/publications/weiss_Percom2012.pdf

Good links. I think I'd seen one of them before but still very interesting in aggregate. Perhaps time to take to the off-grid lifestyle, or perhaps the oceans?

After my solar flare inducing laser, there will be no grid.

Sure, but it's the most common day-to-day locker lock. Not too shabby.

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