How to build your own Electronic Lockpick MII

[Wild_qwerty]

Do you remember the Electronic Lockpick in FO? Wouldnt it be cool to have your own one? Well now you can.


This is the second generation Wattz Electronics Micromanipulator FingerStuff electronic lockpick. For defeating electronic locks and security devices. This Mark II version includes updated software and interface tools.
Well, thats the Fallout 2 version, here's the "Real Life" version. All it needs is a case mod to make it look like the FO version.

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http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/lockpick/lockpick.aspx

 

[Mod Whore]

oh sweet finally someone thoguht of a way to unlock my teeth braces from being caught on to misc things.

Thank you wild_qwerty, no more embarrased trips to the dentist for me!

 

[Roshambo]

Heh, quite a bit like electronic jimmys, but with simpler and cheaper materials. I kind of like the feedback they got on their site about it.

 

[Wild_qwerty]

hahaha yea turns out some people dont know that locks are only to stop honest people from breaking in

I remember when I was a kid I filed down a key to make a skeleton key.

 

[Roshambo]

hahaha yea turns out some people dont know that locks are only to stop honest people from breaking in

Or to keep grotesquely stupid people out, and given the number of stupid people in the world, locks are needed and do serve some use.

 

[Jarno Mikkola]

They(the locks) are used to keep the thieves out, not the break and entry types of criminal, there are camera observation, armed guards, vehicle patrols, satellite observation, noise detection, infrared cameras, pla, pla, pla, for those kinds of criminals.
And a skeleton key really helps when the door has a bio-metric identifier.
But then again you could take a leather key, whit the bone in it, but leave the body behind, that came with the key, unless, the biometric component has to be alive. At that point, you might want to change the field.

 

[Wild_qwerty]

Not really a lot of biometric locks around, I cant say I know anyone with one on the front door. Even the bussinesses around town will at most have a swipe card.

Take a look at www.hackaday.com (not to mention lots of other geeky stuff) for some examples on how people can get around swipecards.

 

[SuAside]

And a skeleton key really helps when the door has a bio-metric identifier.
But then again you could take a leather key, whit the bone in it, but leave the body behind, that came with the key, unless, the biometric component has to be alive. At that point, you might want to change the field.

any modern biometric lock worth it's salt checks for flowing blood (ergo: live human tissue) when checking fingerprint, retina, or whatever. cutting things off people just wont cut it.

 

[Jarno Mikkola]

Any modern biometric lock worth it's salt checks for flowing blood...

Then why in the hell does the "leather key" always bet the biometric lock? Because it's much harder to get the computer to check that the tissue is alive than that it matches to the pattern. You know, the physiological changes(and the blood flow patterns...) are huge in the fingertips when the temperature drops.

Sorry, access denied, access denied, alerting the security office, please check that your fingers aren't too cold.

 

[ColJack]

the contact plate only needs to be presure sensitive to register bloodflow.. it would just register the regular pulse of the owner..

 

[Roshambo]

A pulse microsensor can also be made from very few components and have so many different uses.

A body has a natural electric field through capacitance that is sensed in touch lamps, the variation of millivolts contributed by touching the conductive sensors. As the conductiveness of dead tissue merely held in the hands of live tissue is negligible, it works well for security.

Same principle, except that some applications pay a thousand times better.

 

[DirtyDreamDesigner]

Yeah, but does it know when you punch someone out and drag them to the sensor unconscious and then break their neck afterwards?









What?

 

[Roshambo]

Heh, most security is rather limited by that, true.

 

[Ashmo]

Well, they could check whether the heartbeat is too slow, i.e. they're unconcious, or too high, i.e. they might have a gun in their face.

"Access denied. You seem to be panicking. The authorities have been informed. Have a nice, and productive day."

 

[RPGenius]

People who want a job interview would be pretty screwed.