Jack Recider

And the lockpick village has grown since then. I also remember a contest that year, which had people try to escape from jail. The premise is that you woke up in a jail, but you had your lockpicks with you. So you have to first undo your handcuffs and then pick open the cell door and then pickpocket the guard and then get the lock open to the jailhouse. It was hilarious.

And the lockpick village has grown since then. I also remember a contest that year, which had people try to escape from jail. The premise is that you woke up in a jail, but you had your lockpicks with you. So you have to first undo your handcuffs and then pick open the cell door and then pickpocket the guard and then get the lock open to the jailhouse. It was hilarious.

And there are a million ways to get a locked door open. You don't always need to pick it. In that law firm, it seemed that the latches in the door were installed incorrectly. And by putting a piece of plastic between the door and the frame, you could shim it open. I've also seen whole doors installed backwards where the hinges are on the outside.

And there are a million ways to get a locked door open. You don't always need to pick it. In that law firm, it seemed that the latches in the door were installed incorrectly. And by putting a piece of plastic between the door and the frame, you could shim it open. I've also seen whole doors installed backwards where the hinges are on the outside.

So you could come in with a hammer and nail and just pop the hinges off and take the whole door off without having to touch the lock at all. And so throughout the years, Deviant has been getting better and better at understanding locks and doors and physical security measures, and I consider him one of the masters in this space.

So you could come in with a hammer and nail and just pop the hinges off and take the whole door off without having to touch the lock at all. And so throughout the years, Deviant has been getting better and better at understanding locks and doors and physical security measures, and I consider him one of the masters in this space.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that Deviant has actually given more talks at security conferences than anyone else.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that Deviant has actually given more talks at security conferences than anyone else.

300 or 400 talks about physical penetration testing. Yowzers. How in the world am I going to fit all that information into a one-hour episode? Hmm. All right, I got a plan. I think I'm going to take a break, play Elden Ring for like 200 hours, and then listen to like as many of his videos and then come back later. Okay, that was fun. And through the magic of editing, I'm back.

300 or 400 talks about physical penetration testing. Yowzers. How in the world am I going to fit all that information into a one-hour episode? Hmm. All right, I got a plan. I think I'm going to take a break, play Elden Ring for like 200 hours, and then listen to like as many of his videos and then come back later. Okay, that was fun. And through the magic of editing, I'm back.

And there's some good stuff that he talks about there. My favorite talk of his is this one.

And there's some good stuff that he talks about there. My favorite talk of his is this one.

Because here's the thing. This is a full one-hour talk of him and his friend Howard Payne going over so many ways that you can take over an elevator, hack an elevator, and make it do stuff that you shouldn't be able to do. But since this was a talk in Las Vegas where there are a lot of elevators, DEF CON was a bit worried about what people would do with this information.

Because here's the thing. This is a full one-hour talk of him and his friend Howard Payne going over so many ways that you can take over an elevator, hack an elevator, and make it do stuff that you shouldn't be able to do. But since this was a talk in Las Vegas where there are a lot of elevators, DEF CON was a bit worried about what people would do with this information.

So they pushed the talk back to be on the last day and the last talk of the last day when people were flying home. So it was kind of a hidden talk where most attendees had already gone. But it's the most watched video of all of DEF CON's videos on YouTube. And so it's no secret anymore. And I think you should watch this video too on elevator hacking.

So they pushed the talk back to be on the last day and the last talk of the last day when people were flying home. So it was kind of a hidden talk where most attendees had already gone. But it's the most watched video of all of DEF CON's videos on YouTube. And so it's no secret anymore. And I think you should watch this video too on elevator hacking.

It'll make you think differently about elevators after you see it. Like, for instance, you may have been in an elevator where you couldn't get to certain floors unless you scan a key card. Deviant can bypass that. He can get on an elevator and then get it to go to whatever floor he wants. He shows you that there are some common keys that a lot of elevators use, and they aren't hard to get.

It'll make you think differently about elevators after you see it. Like, for instance, you may have been in an elevator where you couldn't get to certain floors unless you scan a key card. Deviant can bypass that. He can get on an elevator and then get it to go to whatever floor he wants. He shows you that there are some common keys that a lot of elevators use, and they aren't hard to get.

So elevators aren't as secure as you think. You should probably consider them to be like doors, where you really should test the security of them, and not like an elevator, which is just some mysterious box that goes up and down that only the elevator technician knows how to control.

So elevators aren't as secure as you think. You should probably consider them to be like doors, where you really should test the security of them, and not like an elevator, which is just some mysterious box that goes up and down that only the elevator technician knows how to control.