I've lost my key. Can you pass me that banana? Lock-picking enthusiasts are cracking the 'uncrackable' in increasingly creative ways. And locksmiths aren't happy about it. Patrick White reports
PATRICK WHITE >From Friday's Globe and Mail July 11, 2008 at 8:58 AM EDT You won't be kicked off a car lot for asking about horsepower or ousted from a bar for asking about booze. But apparently, you can be tossed from a locksmith shop for asking about locks. It happened to Steve Boisvert a few months ago. He dropped by a locksmith store near his home in London, Ont., and began asking the owner about Medeco locks, the supposedly unpickable industry standard used in government and military installations. The locksmith asked him where he planned to install it. "Oh, nowhere," Mr. Boisvert said. "I'm just playing with it as a hobby." That's when the locksmith told Mr. Boisvert to leave. "And he wasn't exactly nice about it." Mr. Boisvert is a member of a thousands-strong community of amateur lock-pickers whose growth and influence is raising hackles among locksmiths across North America. Driven mainly by computer geeks who see parallels between hacking networks and picking locks, the hobby has exploded online. ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080711.wlpicking11/BNStory/lifeMain ******************************* * POST TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ******************************* Medianews mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
