Need to get into a tricky lock, why not make a lock pick out of one of your old hard drives? That is what the guys over at sorgonet.com did.
wtf! I know what I’m doing next weekend.
Well isn’t that special.
ah this article came too late! a month ago I’d to lockpick my own lock - I’d to cut it spending lot of sweat…
Damn. I saw this exact hack years ago :S
It might, however be on another forum now. Anybody else seen this before?
Ah. Here it is: http://hackaday.com/2005/04/29/hard-drive-and-mouse-lockpick/ From ‘05!!
Grats, Martinmunk..
I noticed from the hackaday entry Martinmunk linked to that there already is an English version at http://www.sorgonet.com/security/hdlockpicking/
Hi Martinmunk,
I must not have seen that article when it came out. Thanks.
Hi Paul,
Much better than the Google translation. Thanks, I have updated the article with only the English link.
[...] to my washing machine and do the same thing. Clearly I’m no expert on lock picking. via hacked gadgets var addthis_pub = ‘craziestgadgets’; var addthis_brand = ‘Craziest Gadgets’;var addthis_language [...]
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October 18th, 2009
wtf! I know what I’m doing next weekend.
October 18th, 2009
Well isn’t that special.
October 18th, 2009
ah this article came too late! a month ago I’d to lockpick my own lock - I’d to cut it spending lot of sweat…
October 18th, 2009
Damn. I saw this exact hack years ago :S
It might, however be on another forum now. Anybody else seen this before?
Ah. Here it is: http://hackaday.com/2005/04/29/hard-drive-and-mouse-lockpick/ From ‘05!!
Grats, Martinmunk..
October 18th, 2009
I noticed from the hackaday entry Martinmunk linked to that there already is an English version at http://www.sorgonet.com/security/hdlockpicking/
October 18th, 2009
Hi Martinmunk,
I must not have seen that article when it came out. Thanks.
October 18th, 2009
Hi Paul,
Much better than the Google translation. Thanks, I have updated the article with only the English link.
October 20th, 2009
[...] to my washing machine and do the same thing. Clearly I’m no expert on lock picking. via hacked gadgets var addthis_pub = ‘craziestgadgets’; var addthis_brand = ‘Craziest Gadgets’;var addthis_language [...]