Medeco(r) Biaxial - Bump by 12year old

A twelve year old girl succeeded in bumping a Medeco High Security biaxial 6pin tumbler lock. Although it took her a few tries, she was able to repeat it three times. This video is an excerpt from a video interview with Marc Webber Tobias at Defcon15

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• Medeco
• Lock
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• Defcon

[mokugin]

You obviously have no clue what you are talking about... Medeco are easy to bump and this vid. is completely legit... I have seen this done with locks right out of the package... try it make one do it to your front door..... Marc is the man!!! this guy knows his stuff!!!! he wrote the locking picking "bible"

[rmessenger]

Any method of manipulating a lock is a valid method... pin-by-pin picking, raking, bumping, drilling, crow bar... Physical security companies like Medeco are notoriously bad at actually fixing vulnerabilities in their products. Instead they just pretend they don't exist.

[blenheimears]

If you want a very good lock that is impossible to bump or pick, the Abloy Protec is a good choice. So far, nobody has successfully bumped or picked a Protec.

[kaanmp]

could somebody please fuck this twelve years old girl in the ass so that she won't become a thief but a whore at least

[mresurm]

To all your doubters, this is legit. Read OPEN IN THIRTY SECONDS: Cracking One of the Most Secure Locks in America.These guys came up with several ways to get past Medeco locks and Medeco was not listening to them, saying its impossible etc, so they took this girl to DEFCON and let her bump it to try and get their attention. One of the guys that wrote the book can pick them in under 30 seconds (thus the title of the book).

[tommigs]

The angles have nothing to do with the locks being difficult to pick except that they will be difficult to get the pick on the angled pins which by the way sit inside the keyway.

Medecos are not impossibel to pick nor are they impossible to bump.

Difficult but not impossible.

[charlesdyfis]

@ACSSinstructor Who can "pick" it? Would have to read the fine print -- if the prize is limited to a specific vulnerability type, there's your answer right there.

[kingjamez80]

There is no way the sidebar is in that lock.



[thom4spull3n]

I'm not worried.

So what if a 12 year-old girl can pick a Medeco lock?

Your typical home invasion robber is not a 12 year-old girl. It's a young minority male.

Everybody knows that.

So I'm sleeping soundly.

When the 12 year-old girls start breaking

into houses, I'll pay more attention.

[Makron5]

@ACSSinstructor Here's the problem. I can't find that Medeco prize anywhere.

[t0923aps]

I discussed this video with a few well seasoned locksmiths. All of them said that the video is likely BS. Their thought was that the lock was set up with all normal pins, no angle pins. If that was the case it would make it easy to bump. The reason Medeco locks are extremely difficult to pick or bump is because they use angle cuts on the pins and keys. Even if you get the pins at the right height, they still need to be twisted to the right angle.

[randomber]

Okay, so what locks can't be readily picked or bumped by a 12 year old girl? Its hard to find independent reviews from the perspective of what's more or less secure. Perhaps nothing is perfectly secure, but its hard to independently evaluate the relative pros & cons of Medeco vs. Schlage Primus, etc.