Kwikset makes an incredibly popular line of reprogrammable locks that can be easily re-keyed, meaning that landlords don’t have to physically change the locks when their tenants move out.
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Attacking the popular Kwikset lock: open in 15 seconds with a screwdriver and a paper clip
A pair of crooks in Oklahoma made more than $400, 000 with a whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmer that they installed in Wal-Mart gas stations, using rental cars while they were doing the installation.
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Whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmers
Justin Engler and Paul Vines will demo a robot called the Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher (R2B2) at Defcon; it can work its way through every numeric screen-lock Android password in 19 hours.
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PIN-punching $200 robot can brute force every Android numeric screen-password in 19 hours
A woman who valet-parked her car at Rochester airport returned to find a notice informing her that the valet had searched her car, on orders from the TSA.
The Sikorsky prize for human-powered helicopters has been claimed by a Kickstarter-funded startup called Aerovelo. Aerovelo’s founders, Canadians Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson, won the $250, 000 purse for the 30-second flight of Atlas, a huge quadrotor with a bike in the middle whose flight is an absolute marvel to behold.