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Sep. 17th, 2004 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI don't have a bike lock. I haven't ridden a bike in ages. However, I did find this interesting bit of bike trivia on the internet today. The video link, just so's you know, is a guy opening a Kryptonite bike lock with the casing of a Bic ink pen. Many "circular" bike locks can be opened this way.
This vulnerability is not news to people who make bike locks, as we can see from the following 1992 USENET post. In twelve years (1992-2004), nobody at the bike lock companies came up with locks that would not fall victim to the evil Bic lockpick?
You gotta wonder.
The nice folks at bikeforums.net broke this story... it's a great way to see how the story spread organically through the internet and became actual news. :) Check out, in particular, the thread that kicked everything off.
This vulnerability is not news to people who make bike locks, as we can see from the following 1992 USENET post. In twelve years (1992-2004), nobody at the bike lock companies came up with locks that would not fall victim to the evil Bic lockpick?
You gotta wonder.
The nice folks at bikeforums.net broke this story... it's a great way to see how the story spread organically through the internet and became actual news. :) Check out, in particular, the thread that kicked everything off.
