Find me at BlackHat and DEF CON!

I’m excited to be included in two events in Las Vegas next week. First, I’ll be giving a talk with a colleague at Microsoft’s Security Theater at BlackHat on Wednesday at 10AM. Then, on Saturday, I’ll be doing a book signing for Locksport and Pentesting Azure Applications at the author signing space in the DEF CON vendor area at 1PM with No Starch Press and my co-author, BandEAtoZ. Finally, on Sunday, the authors of Evasion Engineering will be doing a signing. As the technical reviewer for that title, I highly recommend the book and I’m really looking forward to meeting Dennis and Michael in person.

If you’ll be in Vegas, come find me and say hi!

Azure Book / Locksport Book / Speaking

Schlage Key Spacing Guide

In preparation for our impressioning workshop, I designed a SC1 / SC4 spacing block that can be 3D printed. Just insert a SC1 or SC4 key blank with the bow at the “B” end (tip at the “T”) and use a fine tip permanent marker to mark the positions on the key. Now you can be sure your impression filing is in the right spot. Download it here.

Locksport

Come to Our Impressioning Workshop @ BSides SEA!

Seattle Locksport’s YakMedic and I will be hosting a workshop at BSides Seattle next month! We’ll teach attendees how to impression a lock: the process of creating a working key without any knowledge of what’s in the lock or ever seeing the original key. It’s a great technique for red team operations, or winning cool international locksport competitions. The workshop is Friday, February 27th, from 1-5pm. We hope you’ll be able to join us.

Tickets are available now on the conference’s EventBrite page. They are a bit more expensive that the other workshops, but that’s because every attendee will go home with a set of tools to keep on impressioning.

Me, Impressioning a lock, somewhere in the Netherlands, sometime last decade.

Me, Impressioning a lock, somewhere in the Netherlands, sometime last decade.

Locksport / Speaking

Seattle Times Locksport Feature

I’m honored and excited that the Seattle Times featured Seattle Locksport in their Sunday, January 26th, 2025 Northwest section. The article discusses the comradery of our group, what it’s like to compete in locksport events, and has an awesome video that my friend LockpickingDev narrated. Take a minute to check it out!

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Thanks BlueHat!

Thanks for another awesome con, BlueHat! We had a great time teaching hundreds of people how to pick locks and having them compete for the fastest open. Even Clippy got in on the action! I also was happy to get to sign several copies of my Locksport book, which was included in the book prize drawing.

Lock Wall
Timed Lockpick Competition
Lockpicking Practice Table
Clippy Picking a Lock
Clippy Opens the Lock!
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