[conspire] Bicycle theft: good metaphor for computer/network secur ity

[Rick Moen]

Quoting carl77 at juno.com (carl77 at juno.com):

> There is also apparently a method of picking the round-keyed locks
> with an appropriately sized pen barrel. Haven't tried it myself... 

_Was_, not is.

That was 19 years ago (2004), with then-recent models of Kryptonite
U-locks, famously demonstrated with a Bic ballpoint on a year-2000-model
Kryptonite.[1]  Allegion, Inc. d/b/a/ Kryptonite duly ate crow in the
press briefly, and offered owners generous trade-in terms on replacement
locks furnishing improved cylinder designs.

No similar cylinder gaffes have been reported since then.

Of course, you could always hire the Lock-Picking Lawyer.  ;->


[1] It was a 35-second video demonstration by bicyclist "unaesthetic" of
Seattle easily opening a Kryptonite Evolution 2000 lock using a Bic
ballpoint, which Peter Hedman uploaded to bikeforums.net, as the load
was crushing Hedman's own Internet server.  The resulting uproar on
bikeforums.net made it as widely covered story, but neither that Web
forum nor archive.org preserved the discussion.  However, the original
video is preserved here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUZOzSGRtEI