The key was invented about 6,000 years ago, and while its mechanics have changed over time, the original concept has shaped how we keep our valuables safe — physically and digitally. "People use the ...

In Clive Thompson’s excellent book, Coders, he describes the earliest wave of computer programmers as paragons of radical openness. “When MIT authorities locked cabinets with equipment they needed to ...

Despite, Hack a Day seeming to be fairly lock heavy lately, we’ve yet to cover a major story from The Last HOPE. At the conference, [Jon King] talked about vulnerabilities in Medeco locks and ...

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I sense great pins inside of you. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You skid to a stop against the cold concrete wall, and bang on ...

A moment’s inattention is all it takes to gather the information needed to make a physical copy of a key. It’s not necessarily an easy process, though, so if pen testing is your game, something like ...

Level Lock+, a Homekit-supporting smart lock with Apple Home Key support, has been demonstrated to be opened by skilled hands in the same time a regular lock can be, but it's still a high-grade lock ...

I get locked out of my house quite a lot. By "I get locked out," I mean that I contrive to accidentally lock myself out. By "quite a lot", I probably mean it happens two or three or four times a year.

When someone is watching over your shoulder, it's second nature to cover up your keyboard before typing in a password on your computer, or even unlocking your phone if you still use a pin passcode.

Now that Halloween is dead and buried for the next 364 days, here’s another brilliant use for your electric pumpkin carver. As demonstrated by a YouTuber named LockPickingLawyer—whose channel, which ...