{"id":148399,"date":"2015-12-07T13:37:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=148399"},"modified":"2015-12-07T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:38:49","slug":"surprisingly-easy-ways-to-open-locks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/148399-surprisingly-easy-ways-to-open-locks.html","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly easy ways to open locks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lock_picking\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lock picking<\/strong><\/a> is a skill often\u00a0used by\u00a0computer hackers, who are always looking for new and innovative ways to break security barriers.<\/p>\n<p>One example is the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-10554538\" target=\"_blank\">Open Organisation of Lock Pickers<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 a group of Dutch hackers who have weekly meetings to sharpen their lock picking skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Computer hackers like getting into areas of a computer that they are not supposed to, and lock picking is really just analogue hacking,\u201d member Jos Weyers once said.<\/p>\n<p>While traditional lock picking, using lock pick tools, remains popular, experts are always looking for new ways to open locks.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the surprisingly easy way to open locks, where expert skills are not required.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Easily open a Master Lock in seconds<\/h3>\n<p>Lock picking expert Bosnian Bill unveiled a simple way to open the #3 Master Lock using a small brass hammer.<\/p>\n<p>Bosnian Bill shows how the Master Lock be opened after pulling on it and hitting it at a rapid pace with the small hammer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pU9MB5XPsp4\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Opening a pin tumbler lock using lock bumping<\/h3>\n<p>Using lock bumping is an easy way to open a pin tumbler lock. This is done using a specially crafted bump key, and giving it a few bumps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hr23tpWX8lM\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Using a credit card to open a locked door<\/h3>\n<p>It is simple to use a credit card to open door locks which are not well designed, as shown in the following video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0yMsdMLejl4\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Opening a car door with a coat hanger<\/h3>\n<p>It is relatively easy to use a metal coat hanger to open a locked car door, as shown in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZgEI4-tu2s\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Using a tennis ball to open a car lock<\/h3>\n<p>Some car locks can be unlocked using a tennis ball with a small hole in it. The pressure created from the ball being pushed against the keyhole pops open the lock \u2013 see the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NEZlpdzrB4\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Open a Master Lock easily with a piece of a beer can<\/h3>\n<p>It is easy to open a Master Lock using a piece of an aluminium beer can &#8211; as shown in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1eGxRQlWTrM\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Open a\u00a0combination\u00a0Master Lock in eight tries or less<\/h3>\n<p>Security expert Samy Kamkar showed that any combination Master Lock can be cracked in 8 combinations or less.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09UgmwtL12c\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Opening an automatically-locking door from the outside<\/h3>\n<p>Kamkar illustrated how easy it is to open an automatically-locking door from the outside using canned air.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xcA7iXSNmZE\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/146605-your-id-number-and-banking-details-are-sold-to-scammers-for-r5.html\">Your ID number and banking details are sold to scammers for R5<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/144651-free-instant-online-debit-order-reversal-with-absa.html\">Free, instant online debit order reversal with Absa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/136656-how-you-can-protect-yourself-from-debit-order-fraud-in-sa.html\">How you can protect yourself from debit order fraud in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a long tradition of lock picking among computer hackers, and many innovative ways to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[199,35,34333],"class_list":["post-148399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-hackers","tag-headline","tag-lock-picking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148733,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148399\/revisions\/148733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}