Your Gun Safe Is Not Secure!

I watched a pretty interesting lecture from one of the DEFCON events today.  If you don't know, Defcon is where all the hackers meet up and hack stuff.  A lot of the guys are into lock picking and they did some testing on a variety of smaller gun safes.  Surprisingly, they were able to pick most of the locks as well as beat the biometric locks.  Lol, those cable locks and trigger locks looked to be basically useless as they were picked in seconds.  

Be warned the vid is a bit long (and has some swearing) but quite informative. 

Safe to Armed in Seconds: A Study of Epic Fails of Popular Gun Safes from Deviant Ollam on Vimeo.

Hat tip: truth about guns

Your Hotel Room Is Not Safe

Almost all modern hotels use those fancy credit card style locks.  A quick swipe and you are back into your comfortable $59.95 Motel 6 room.  Well lo and behold those locks are not safe!  They are easily picked opened from the inside with a cool looking folding wire.  How does it work?  Well a suspicious man wearing glasses carries a long metal tool down the hallway of your hotel.  He finds his target and slides the wire under the door to pull down the handle.  Bam! Full access to clothing and sunscreen lotion from that vacationing family in room 127!  If you stuff a towel in the handle it protects you... sorta.

hat tip gizmodo