The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
Good profile of Marc Weber Tobias from Wired. (via)
Tobias isn’t crazy. Far from it. He’s a professional lock breaker, a man obsessively—perhaps compulsively—dedicated to cracking physical security systems. He doesn’t play games, he rarely sees movies, he doesn’t attend to plants or pets or, currently, a girlfriend. Tobias hacks locks. Then he teaches the public how to hack them, too.
Like many exceedingly bright people, Tobias has the exhausted air of a know-it-all. Over dozens of dinners, he has walked me through how to pick simple locks (“Uh, is there something wrong with your hands?”) and bypass combination dials (“A brain-damaged monkey could do it faster”). He has described how to outwit security technologies like motion detectors (“Duh”), face-recognition software (“It’s stupid, even if you think about it!”), fingerprint scans (“What child came up with that?”), and heat sensors (“You can get this one—maybe”).
