"Those people are unbelievably arrogant," he says with a smirk. Much to the company's horror, Tobias publicly ridiculed their bike lock as an overpriced horseshoe.
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Last summer, Tobias' report on how to use a ballpoint pen to hack tubular locks-locks with circular key interfaces, like those made by Kryptonite-made headlines coast to coast. Marc Weber Tobias is the author of Locks, Safes, and Security: An International Police Reference, a two-volume, 1,400-page compendium referred to here as De Bijbel.
By the pool table, a gaggle of Dutch programmers probes the latches of a combination padlock with a broken tape measure, while behind them a German cyberpunk sells a hand-milled Kryptonite skeleton key to an American satellite engineer: 100 euros - cheap.
Behind the bar, a pair of locksmiths are speculating about which of the newbies is really an undercover cop. He's hacking an expensive, high-security, dimpled Mul-T-Lock using only a filed key and a steak knife handle. At the door is Barry Wels, the event's host and a coinventor of the CryptoPhone. By the kitchen you'll find Jean-Marie, a debonair French military "surreptitious entry" instructor in a black commando sweater, chatting with a lock enthusiast about his collection of Abloy disc tumblers. It's 20 hours before the third annual Dutch Open lock-picking competition will begin, but the room is already packed with 50 or so men and women wielding burglar tools and representing the international steel bolt-hacker diaspora.
Arthurmeister, the Master of the Universe
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