White House High-Security Locks Broken: Bumped and Picked at DefCon

Rufus_1611 · Aug 7, 2007

White House High-Security Locks Broken: Bumped and Picked at DefCon

By Kim Zetter

A group of researchers has cracked the security features in what are supposed to be some of the world's most secure locks -- locks that are used at the White House, the Pentagon, embassies and other critical locations.

The researchers presented their findings for the first time at the DefCon hacker conference this weekend and showed how they could easily bump and pick the newest high-security M3 locks made by Medeco, a company that owns an estimated 70 percent of the lock market.

In addition to bumping and picking Medeco's M3 cylinder locks, the researchers also succeeded in the last few weeks to crack a Medeco M3 deadbolt lock -- considered to be one of the highest security locks in the world. They showed Wired News how to open the deadbolt in less than a minute using nothing more than a modified $2 screwdriver and a wire shim. They asked, however, that we not publish the details.

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James_Newman · Aug 7, 2007

Defcon, you gotta love those guys. It's hard to believe in the illusion of security these days.

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