The 6 people you need in your corner

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Picking handcuffs with laser cut keys

 

Picking handcuffs with laser cut keys

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At this year's HOPE conference, German competitive lockpicker and security researcher [Ray] gave a talk about escaping high security handcuffs that are probably being used by your local police and other LEOs. He's doing this with 3D printed and laser cut keys because, you know, security through obscurity never works.

Two years ago, [Ray] gave a talk at HOPE on 3D printing Dutch handcuff keys (you can listen to his conference as an .MP3 here). This time around, [Ray] copied the keys of Bonowi and Chubb handcuffs, very popular brands for American police. After obtaining a key from each of the two brands, [Ray] broke out the calipers and micrometer and designed his own versions that can be printed on a RepRap or Makerbot, or just laser cut from a piece of plastic; the perfect material for sneaking one through a metal detector.

The .DXF and .STL files for the handcuff keys will be available on Thingiverse shortly. We'd suggest watching this Thingiverse account (nevermind), as they have the files for [Ray]'s earlier Dutch handcuff key.
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10 Things that will make you happier at home

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Google may be forced to censor 'Torrent' and 'Megaupload'

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The French Supreme Court may force Google to remove terms including 'Torrent', 'Rapidshare' and 'Megaupload' from its Instant and Autocomplete search tools.

The search engine has been embroiled in a back-and-forth on the matter with the French music industry group SNEP (that's the Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique, Francophiles) since early 2010.

The reason being, SNEP says, that autocompleting 'torrent' or the name of a filesharing site after an artist name is tantamount to facilitating piracy.

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It hasn't gone well for SNEP over the past couple of years – two lower courts ruled against it, prompting the group to head to the Supreme Court where it's had more success.

The court says that Google isn't responsible for the content of these links but should be in favour of making it harder to find pirated content.

Google, for its part, has already removed a lot of piracy-related terms from Autocomplete – so if you start typing 'to…' into Google it won't suggest you finish up with 'rrent'.

So why fight? This case sets a dangerous precedent for rights holders to demand Google filter search suggestions more and more rigorously; the company, which has been outspoken about more damaging forms of censorship in the past, will want to keep as much control over its search tools as possible.

Although the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the SNEP, it's not a done deal yet; the case is now with the Court of Appeal which will have the final say.



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YouTube video series - The Real Hustle

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This is a series of videos where The Real Hustle team shows how easy it is to con people. This is Social Engineering and some clever wit combined, with some identity theft cases also thrown in. Great show.

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Another series of blasts in London

Another series of blasts has hit the city of London. The casualty figure this time is a solitary one. It seems this was not a properly planned one and was intended more to show the intelligence agencies down than to cause material harm to the people of London

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