06-27, 10:40–11:40 (Europe/Vienna), Dachsaal (Track 2 )
Possibly you already know lock picking. Possibly not.
We explain what happens in the lock while picking or regularly with a key.
Lock picking itself, we will show you in an own workshop at the bsides vienna.
Additional, there are competitions. For example the yearly austrian championship.
Or the belt-system, which be presented.
A lock can be a hard challenge to open without a key. Regularly these are installed in a door.
We do it a little bit easier, we do not install them, we hold them in our own hand. But additionally we do it a little bit harder, because we do not want to destroy them.
If you want to open the door, there are much easier ways, but they will damage something.
You do not need to know, how a lock works, to pick them. Usually, we do not explain it, we let beginners open the lock for the first time and anybody is surprised, it works easy. But it was an easy lock.
But what are the differences between an easy and a hard lock?
So for that we have to explain a lock and the key. Which technical behaviors are used to make it more and more challenging. Somebody could think, the manufactures do it for more fun for the lock pickers.
For more fun, it is nice to use rules for competitions. The belt-system is one. Anybody can participate.
And you can use it to describe the fun - sorry - the easiness or hardness of a lock for lock pickers.
There is nothing to tell about my past year.
There are totally different, but mostly follow the same principle.
Details i do not write public.
You can ask me!
My world are layer 1 to layer 8.
I do anything in the IT from hardware to frontend and beyond the keyboard.
You can challenge me.
I do not stand on the side of the attackers, i'm on the side will be attacked.
I do not want, that you are smiling, that you broke my system.
So I talk, listen and laugh to/with the attackers, that I know, what they do.
For the others I'm the guy, who made the backups for them. Or not.
You can trust me!
And I'm a lock picker since 2018.
You can try it!
I started picking locks in 2024 and have been a member of the Lock Picker's United (better known as LPU) online community for 2 years. Picking locks for me is more of a leisure activity, which I do out of curiosity and for the feeling of accomplishment. There's nothing better than tackling a hard lock and finally getting it to open.