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A well crafted writeup of Marc Tobias (a highly regarded lock picker and one of the world’s  foremost physical security experts), via Wired’s latest issue, came to my attention yesterday. Detailing issue swirling around the Medeco high security lock debacle, (aka Medeco’s Hubris) we deem Charlie Graeber’s article a MustRead. An exceedingly short snippet appears after the jump.

From the original Wired article by Charles Graeber : “The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit“

“Tobias is laughing. And laughing. The effect is disconcerting. It’s a bwa-ha-ha kind of evil mastermind laugh—appropriate if you’ve just sacked Constantinople, checkmated Deep Blue, or handed Superman a Dixie cup of kryptonite Kool-Aid, but downright scary in a midtown Manhattan restaurant during the early-bird special…. “Our fellow diners begin to stare. Tobias doesn’t notice and wouldn’t care anyway. He’s as rumpled and wild as a nerdy grizzly bear. His place mat is covered in diagrams and sketched floor plans and scribbled arrows. His laugh fits him like a tinfoil hat. It goes on for a solid 20 seconds…”

• Why Security by Obscurity Fails, Part 674 (mt-soft.com.ar)
• The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit (financegeek.com)
• How The Lock Industry Put Its Head In The Sand, Rather Than Deal With Vulnerabilities To Locks (techdirt.com)
• You: Profile of the lock-hacker who bumped the “unbumpable” Medeco lock (boingboing.net)