Kryptonite U Locks can be foiled with a bic pen
Wednesday, 15 September 2004 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daI wouldn't believe this if it hadn't been verified by one of my co-workers this afternoon.
Kryptonite U locks can be opened with a ballpoint pen. Complete with instructions and pictures.
Neither of the two kryptonite locks in my house are the right size to fit a bic pen barrel, but I'm not convinced a larger pen barrel wouldn't break the lock. *sigh* Kryptonite's official response is "we are working on a new lock design which should be out in a few months". How.... not useful.
My favourite response I've heard is "damn. Now I don't have a lock, and I don't have a pen to write a complaint letter".
September has not been a good month for security. Newspapers report a Perdue researcher claimed proof of the Riemann hypothesis, which in theory could result in a Bic Pen to break public-key encryption.
It would be, however, a great month for math, if both the Reinman Hypothesis and Poincaré conjecture have been solved.
Kryptonite U locks can be opened with a ballpoint pen. Complete with instructions and pictures.
Neither of the two kryptonite locks in my house are the right size to fit a bic pen barrel, but I'm not convinced a larger pen barrel wouldn't break the lock. *sigh* Kryptonite's official response is "we are working on a new lock design which should be out in a few months". How.... not useful.
My favourite response I've heard is "damn. Now I don't have a lock, and I don't have a pen to write a complaint letter".
September has not been a good month for security. Newspapers report a Perdue researcher claimed proof of the Riemann hypothesis, which in theory could result in a Bic Pen to break public-key encryption.
It would be, however, a great month for math, if both the Reinman Hypothesis and Poincaré conjecture have been solved.
