On another note, anyone seen these new 13 pin tubulars? Or am I just old?

The attack on the handcuff you’re talking about is well known, especially after I presented it at the HOPE conference last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5-c5OA0-9U
I’ve already discussed ways to prevent that with people commercially involved (Peerless also tried that on their own and failed with the XJ model…), if you’re interested just contact me, email is written on my site linked above…

Oh, and to all the people who took so much interest in this: thanks! It was fun at HAR and also quite some afterwards…

And to the critics: this never was inteded to be evil, and it isn’t. The key itself never was a secret, even though they won’t sell it there are good pictures of it on the internet, even on police-equipment shops.So the dutch police always had to know there’s a chance of someone having that key. I just reminded them of that… My intention mainly was to show a reprap can print actual keys – that to my knowledge never has been done before and I was surprised myself how good it finally worked. Choosing a handcuff key just seemed logical after all the talks I held about opening those…

Greetings,
Ray
http://save.y.nu

P.S: Regarding the video linked above: that’s actually part 3/3 of the first version of my talk, held in New York mid 2008. For people who understand german I’d recomnend the longer version I held at the 25C3 in Berlin, “Handschellen Hacken” which can be found at
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/wiki/Conference_Recordings

Here in the States, unless you’re in the military or law enforcement, leave your fuzzy handcuff keys at home.
Or in your LockCon case.

I’m actually doing some commercial work on handcuffs right now, if anybody’s interested.
There’s no reason to go after the Medeco if you can exploit the cuffs.

Sink + Offender == FAIL

Give me one reason why it is so dangerous? Here is mine: einstein@mbnet.fi and all you can do with it is to A) send me mail and B) get some spammer interested. There is this thing called spam filter, which already trashes 90% of all incoming messages on the spot, so that ain’t a problem :)

it was the anarchy and shooting flames, that was the real clincher.

this article is going viral and making some serious traction.

I’m still kicking myself that I didn’t go to the session.

AFAIK this was happening in the LOCKCON 2 space being run by TOOOL http://toool.nl/ ?

BTW big shout out to all the core team who ran HAR2009, thanks for 2 fantastic weeks!!!!

With metal 3D printing techniques becoming more accessible and affordable it would be possible to copy almost any key.. all you need is a good high resolution picture and a scale reference to build a virtual model which can be printed on demand.

tOM