I’m very excited to announce that my second book, Locksport, is available for pre-order from Amazon and No Starch Press. My coauthors and I have worked very hard to share everything we think you’ll need to learn the ins-and-outs of various locksport skills. Each section is brought to you by …
Yet another talk I gave in 2020 is now online! Check out my slideshow roulette presentation of Jos Weyer and Holly Poer’s Impressioning deck I gave on extremely short notice at BSides Seattle 2020 back in October.
If you didn’t have a chance to see my talk on master key attacks at last year’s Layer 8 conference, it’s now available for viewing on YouTube. Enjoy!
For the past six months, I’ve been focused on a project I hope to share with everyone very soon. In the meantime I took a break a couple of days ago to work on building a progressive set of American 1305 locks – removing 1, 2, and 3 pins from …
Today I’ll be giving an updated talk on attacks against master keyed systems at the TOOOL virtual Lock Pick Village at the Layer 8 Conference at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern. I hope you’ll be able to attend!
Join us Sunday, March 8 at 1:00 PM at Black Lodge Research in Redmond, WA for Seattle Locksport‘s first lock impressioning meetup. All experience levels welcome! We’ll have all the gear, locks, and key blanks you need. We’ll be meeting every 2nd Sunday of the month to practice, teach, learn, …
Earlier this month, I spoke at DEF CON 27’s Lock Pick Village on insider attacks that can be executed on master-keyed systems. (Note: Not Master brand locks. 😊) A copy of my slides can be downloaded from: https://burrough.org/papers/Burrough-DC27_Master_Key_Talk.pdf. AbstractAs a lock enthusiast and professional pentester, I think a lot about …
I had a lot of fun meeting many folks, catching up with old friends, and hearing some great talks at ShmooCon. I was fortunate to not only get to do a book signing at the No Starch Press booth, but also take home the second place trophy from the TOOOL DC Locksport Village! Thanks to everyone who came to the signing, or who stopped me just to say hello. I hope to see you all again soon.
I recently built a timed lock picking competition, based on a similar design created by @dossman33. It consists of four deadbolts (plus two spares), all pinned identically, that, when opened, trigger a switch wired to a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has a UI written in Python that shows the current …
As both a locksport enthusiast and a professional red teamer, I spend a good deal of time thinking about locks. One fascinating subset of locks is master keyed systems. These are primarily used by large businesses to create a hierarchy of locks and keys: individuals can have a key that …