Comments on: When every second counts … not so subtile tools http://blackbag.nl/?p=125 Locks, lockpicking, encryption, RF spectrum and more Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:37:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lockpickers http://blackbag.nl/?p=125&cpage=1#comment-12047 Lockpickers Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:23:46 +0000 http://www.toool.nl/blackbag/?p=125#comment-12047 Nothing new appear here. For a while it was lot of news here, but now is nothing happening. Not fun to update your site to find same old articles... What's happening? Nothing new appear here. For a while it was lot of news here, but now is nothing happening. Not fun to update your site to find same old articles… What’s happening?

]]> By: Eric Schmiedl http://blackbag.nl/?p=125&cpage=1#comment-10326 Eric Schmiedl Fri, 18 May 2007 08:03:05 +0000 http://www.toool.nl/blackbag/?p=125#comment-10326 I saw one of those robots recently at a show here at MIT... the technician that ran it said he preferred to defuse bombs by hand (wearing a bomb-suit) -- not because it's safer, but because he knew the suit better than he did the robot. It was a very impressive robot, though: it had the capability to trigger something like eight shocktubes at once (for controlled detonation), in addition to an armored video camera and the obligatory water gun. Apparently the US Army has a whole warehouse full of the things in Iraq, and whenever one comes back damaged from the field it gets stripped and fitted with replacement parts of whatever is damaged. Really tough beasts, those things. I saw one of those robots recently at a show here at MIT… the technician that ran it said he preferred to defuse bombs by hand (wearing a bomb-suit) — not because it’s safer, but because he knew the suit better than he did the robot. It was a very impressive robot, though: it had the capability to trigger something like eight shocktubes at once (for controlled detonation), in addition to an armored video camera and the obligatory water gun.

Apparently the US Army has a whole warehouse full of the things in Iraq, and whenever one comes back damaged from the field it gets stripped and fitted with replacement parts of whatever is damaged. Really tough beasts, those things.

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