So you've locked your front/rear disc brakes with a Kryptonite lock have ye?

Well, if your bike isn't there in the morning, blame the Bic Pen
Corporation and Al Gore (for he, as we all know, invented the
Internet).

This is such a clusterfuck.

http://biginjapan.com/extranet/assets/ben/krypto_ev_disc_web.mov

 

News is out in the bicycle world that kypto locks are easily defeated by bic
pens. Even the company doesn't dispute this and is rushing new designs out as
we speak.

This isn't a fluke.

 

And it wouldn't suprise me if its common to cylindrical key locks in
general: as each pin only has a couple of positions and the BIC looks
like its acting like a rotary lockpick.

Note this is speculation, in 30 seconds of fiddling, I couldn't do it.
But then, I only tried for 30 seconds on a friend's lock.

THis may be something like the master-key-escalation attack of about 2
years ago: something the locksmiths and lockmakers kinda knew, but
didn't do anything about and generally kept it quiet until Matt BLaze
and Steve Belovin started playing with locks [1].


[1] All it takes is a file, a few key blanks, and access to the normal
key to derive the master key for the common design normal/master keyed
lock.