Breaking into your own car
Second time this week, I have left my keys inside the car and locked myself out. To make matters worse ( maybe its a good thing ) my car ( 800) cannot be broken into using the regular “Slide a metal ruler” method. Last time I actually went back home to get the spare keys. Today I had to get a locksmith to get it open. Its pretty amazing. His tool was just a simple thin metal wire.
While he was breaking into my car, I has a small chat with him and he said he could make a duplicate key for my car in 5 min without the original. After bugging him about it, he finally reveals that he just slides in a special type of generic key, which when pushed into the keyhole and removed, will record all the grooves inside the lock on this key. All he has to do now is file those parts of the key till it fits in perfectly.
There is this nice paper by crypto guru Matt blaze on Master-Keyed Lock Vulnerability
Dude…
You’re really good at leaving your keys where they don’t belong, aren’t you?
Could you post the locksmiths contact details and your schedule for the next 1 week? 😀
Re: Dude…
damn, that makes it the 3rd time this week. I remember I left my keys out somewhere at LB/2003 too. OK time to fix the auto lock on my car
At LB/2002 too your keys were lying around at the reception(lost&found) for the better part of a whole day!
hey kingsly. ‘sup?
i’m sure something like this was covered in the anarchist’s cookbook. lost my copy when my old hard disk crashed 🙁
fsking windows doesn’t work. (no fsck for win98 and dosfsck is experimental).
why pick my car when you can pick any of the other fancy cars on the road
B’lore traffic isn’t exactly conducive for “Gone in 60 seconds!” .. but with you there is a pretty high probability that you might think you misplaced your car! 😉