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[00:00:00] Charles Current: Welcome to Lock Sportscast. Your weekly source for Lock sport news. This is episode 1 0 6. Recorded June 19th, 2022. I'm your host Charles Grant in today's episode. The end of push buttons. Start relay attack prevention, methods, another unpickable Lock contender, car thieves, and other criminals products, meetups sales, giveaways, and more. 

[00:00:36] You can subscribe to the audio version of the show on most podcast apps end at the Lock Sportscast dot com. You can subscribe to the video version on YouTube Odyssey or apple podcast. Links to stories discussed will be in the show notes. Some apps limit the length of show notes and the ability to post full links. 

[00:00:50] But you can always find full show notes with all of the links after Lock Sportscast dot com. First up in the news, back on the 31st of May, the verge published in auto call called push button starts days might be numbered written by Mitchell Clark. It's a pretty long article. So I've distilled down the important information here. 

[00:01:11] They say, push button. Does have problems as with many conveniences push button starts have come with a cost, including several dozen people who have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning or uncontrolled motor vehicles after they left their cars running, assuming that they would turn off after they got out with the key fob, the national highway traffic safety administration even has a page warning people to be extra aware if their car has keyless ignition. 

[00:01:37] In 2021, several senators proposed laws that would mandate features to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning and roll aways. But so far the acts have been passed. Many manufacturers have started to come up with systems to prevent further deaths, but push button starts days may be already numbered. Thanks to companies that are pushing the convenience envelope, even further many luxury vehicles, most notably Teslas forgo, a manual startup process altogether you get in select your drive mode and the car is ready to go. 

[00:02:10] Volvo's XC 40 recharge automatically turns itself on and off. And while Volvo's ID four has a start stop button using it is completely optional. According to the car's manual. They both use more or less the same technique. The cars authenticate you via a fob card or even your smartphone, but they just activate or deactivate the motors when you use gear selector, rather than making it a separate step doesn't sound like it's actually anything to do with security as you're still using the fob card or smartphone wireless activation, they're just doing away with the actual button, put it in gear and it'll go. 

[00:02:51] Most of the ones listed here are electric cars, which is, that is, uh, quite easy on, but with a lot of the cars nowadays, automatically stopping end the engine and starting it back up at stoplights, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to do the same thing on a gasoline powered car. I wouldn't think. And then we have an article from auto evolution by Christian ADI, uh, from the 13th of May Ford patent's key F relay attack prevention system. 

[00:03:19] We'll make stealing cars a lot harder. That's the headline. The article says that keyless entry systems are easy to break. Thanks to vulnerabilities of the radio signals used to unlock the doors. Ford thinks it has solution to prevent most common theft method. The key fob relay attack. The keyless entry system adds convenience since the fob can be kept in the pocket or a purse and everything just works. 

[00:03:43] Unfortunately, even though the technology was supposed to improve theft, prevent. In reality, it seems to make a thieves job easy to get access to a vehicle. Thieves, use a method called a relay attack, which we all know about, which involves relaying a radio signal from the key fob to the car. The car thinks the owner has approached with the key and opens the door accordingly. 

[00:04:04] It pushes the button later and the thieves drive off with your car. Of course car makers have tried to improve the system. They say that modern keyless systems put the fob in sleep mode while not in motion, preventing any radio signal from being transmitted Ford thinks it has found a better solution and it filed a patent to protect it called system for preventing vehicle key fob relay attacks. 

[00:04:26] The patent describes a new authentication system that allows the car to know whether the original key is near the car or. According to the patent filed on October 29th, 2020, and published on May 5th, 2022. The system is able to obtain historical data, including the time and location the fob is used. 

[00:04:47] Thus, it can determine if the person trying to unlock the car is the owner or another person. For instance, since car knows that the key moved away. When the owner left the vehicle, it will not respond to a signal that suddenly appears in its Vic. The article says, of course, that this is far from perfect. 

[00:05:03] As the spoofing devices can emulate the key, even in approaching the vehicle. But at least it's better than nothing. They also say that other systems are being developed to avoid this kind of MI man in the middle attack. Some newer vehicles use NFC to open and start, hopefully making those systems more secure than the older systems that can be sniffed from further away. 

[00:05:24] Lots of people, uh, Trying to work on this relay attack problem, but they're all trying to find ways to do it without doing away with the convenience features of keyless systems. In fact, from the article we saw earlier, doubling down on the convenience, even wanting to do away with the start button, but without changing the underlying security problem that exists with the keyless system, there seems to be such a focus on convenience that they're not willing to admit. 

[00:05:55] Some user interaction might be needed to authenticate that the person interacting with the car is the authorized user. Our next article out of Bridgeview, Illinois, by Eric Horn, Bridgeview locksmith burgled for key fob programmer, which helped thieves steel cars. This is from June 8th. The article is another example of an increasingly common crime, the theft of, uh, key program. 

[00:06:23] In the hands of a criminal, it makes stealing a car a lot easier and more profitable. The locksmith says it's a dangerous tool that can pretty much make a key for any car. In the video. The burglary, a sledgehammer is used to break the business' window. One thief climbs through the window while the other still holding the sledgehammer stands, watch outside. 

[00:06:44] It appears that at least one of the men is armed as he searches for programmers. And soon his partner climbs through the window to join. The article says that they stole eight programmers in less than two minutes after making their initial entry. And then the pair race out of the business. A third offender is waiting in a vehicle to drive them away. 

[00:07:03] The locksmith is quoted as saying that they are not amateurs they're professionals, the way they're doing it. The article continues to say that the crime is part of a larger pattern. That includes the theft of programmers as well as key fobs from dealerships in may, two men stole a safe, full of keys from a dealership and used a programmer to swipe a red Corvette and 24 hours. 

[00:07:26] After this locksmith break in here with the sledgehammer, a sledgehammer was also used by these at a dealership where some luxury vehicles were stole. Locksmith said he's been working to disable those stolen programmers, which can be taken offline by the manufacturer. Let's hope he's successful in that and can stop their use. 

[00:07:50] And last week I reported on a locksmith that had been apparently murdered and his body was found inside his burning work van. This week, we have a follow up on that story and a teenager has been arrested and charged with the death of the Lock. To Cal county police confirm that a 16 year old has been identified as the suspect in this case, and is currently in police custody, 16 years old and already in trouble for murder. 

[00:08:17] If this suspect is actually the perpetrator, this is now ruined their life, as well as taking the life of the locksmith and Roon the life of his wife and children. So sat all around now onto some community news. Lethal Logica X has scratch built a Lock. It's a 3d printed Lock that was featured in their new video called a new concept for an unpickable Lock. 

[00:08:44] The description reads. I've been working on this project for a long time, and I'm almost ready to release it into the world. Here's a teaser of what's to come in the near future. Subscribe for updates. As I will be posting another video here soon with more info. This video has no spoken words. Just, uh, shows the exterior of a 3d printed pad Lock and a key. 

[00:09:06] And the key appears to have dual blades and not sure if that's magnets, we're seeing embedded in the key or not, but, uh, will be interesting to see the full details when the video is released. But for now, the link for this video will be in the show notes, be sure to check it out. And there was a question posted on Twitter by Lock picking, dev. 

[00:09:30] He asked anyone know where to buy small steel strips, the size of windshield wiper blades. I would like similar size, but a couple sizes, slightly wider and thicker as well. There were a couple suggestions. One was to contact, uh, Jimmy longs because he has some street sweeper, bristles, and also to contact Sparrow. 

[00:09:54] If anybody else has any good suggestions, head over to Twitter or find Lock pink, dove anywhere else and let them know what you, uh, what you know. And then this week Lock NBE put out a new video called new multi pick elite dimple tension tools designed by me. So Lock NBE, put out this video. It is basically featuring the tension tools that I mentioned in the new product section last week. 

[00:10:20] So, if you wanna know more details about those and how he designed them to be used, be sure to check out his video link in the show notes. And then I F sent in this video called car key signal blocker. Fairday pouch alternative by an Adam Farlow. I'm not sure. So what he's demonstrating in this video is what he calls a cheap option to the fair day pouches for people who don't wanna spend the money. 

[00:10:49] Basically cutting the top off of an aluminum soda can and sticking the fob inside of that, he demonstrates that sitting inside his vehicle with the fob outside the can, the car starts put the fob inside the can and the car says it can't find the key. So all of this may not be the most portable option is not something you're gonna stick in your, uh, pocket when you're at work or, or out with friends. 

[00:11:14] It is something you possibly, if it works with your vehicle, I would do some testing before I relied on it. But you might be able to use that something like a, a can like that to place your, your car keys in while you're at home to present, prevent a relay attack. So moving on to products, we have another new release from bear bones, Lock, picking the bottom of key radius and ulna tension wrenches. 

[00:11:41] I'm gonna read the note that was sent into me by bare bones about this product. They say bare bones has maintained a dislike towards bottom, the QA wiper tension wrenches since the beginning, but after enough pressure and inquiries, we have added the radius and Ona it's available in two sizes suitable for pin Tumblrs and dimple locks. 

[00:12:01] Most Lock boarders, agree that a 90 degree twisted bottom of key wiper tension tool provides poor feedback and dampens tension to the. It's for this reason, majority of bottom of keyway wiper, attention wrenches sold by manufacturers use the sharp right angle profile. So what happens if you twist one end by 360 degrees, it improves the feedback compared to the 90 degree twisted profile. 

[00:12:25] As the dampening effect is now reduced. Full twist provides equal strength in all directions and therefore equal feedback, but still provides some flex compared to the sharp right angle profile. As a bonus left, right. Tension, direction or left, right handed use is identical for feedback. It seems an easy choice then to provide both the sharp right angle profile at one end and a fully twisted profile at the other. 

[00:12:52] So how else can we improve the bottom of K Y retension by increasing the length of the tool we can improve control over the torque, a main body length of approximately 100 millimeters. Plus the length of each profile seems a pretty good starting point. Not really interested in the radius and Nona and prefer to make your own no problems. 

[00:13:11] The same 3 0 4 stainless steel will be made available in flat lengths to make your own design or small finger picks. Moving on to meetups. Jeff Moss sent in that AOA 2022 is July 24th of the 30th in Vegas, though. It is not open to the general public. If you are interested in that link will be in the show notes, Lock con 2022. 

[00:13:36] From Thursday, August 25th to Sunday, August 28th in Barlow, Def gone 30 August 11th through the 14th in Las Vegas. And they of course have their Lock picking village. And there has been a call for volunteers for Lock picking village, a link to Def con's page. And the volunteer form will be in the show notes. 

[00:14:01] And St. Con 2022 will be held in Provo, Utah, October 25th through the 28 keynote speakers include DV, N O Stephanie, snow, Caruthers and Jason E street this year. So consider that if you're gonna be in that area or if you're willing to travel. 

[00:14:27] Moving on to Lock picker's United belts. We have some changes that I neglected to get, uh, read out earlier. These were posted, I believe June 6th and there might have been some others that I missed during my busy spell, but I'm not gonna go back and read them all. So, uh, first off we have for. New additions. 

[00:14:47] Uh, the Abus T 12 is orange. The kale 1 64. GNC is green. The Lock wood, 3 34, B 45 with tapered and bevel. Drivers is gonna be green. The Lock wood, 2 3, 4 B 45 is going to be green Lockwood two 70 S 70 is blue Lockwood V seven will be blue, the SS 700 with taper drivers blue. The Eva ALS is blue. The Kaba Gigi P extra is blue and purple blue with five pins purple with six to seven pins. 

[00:15:22] The cen KX three exterior cylinder will be blue. Purple. The difference being mastering to be purple. At least six side pins must be present or else it will count as a blue. Isaiah R seven is gonna be purple. The Tessa T 80 and TX 80 will be purple for the she VDIs. And the V D I S plus will be purple. 

[00:15:50] The goal P counter milled and over milled with matching drivers purple. The GTA rim, 6,000 brown, the COBA 14 brown or red brown with less than 13 pins and red. If it has. Optus. Mm. X II, um, is going to be a black four. The Optus Milos is gonna be a black four. Now we have Lock that have been upgraded. The Kaba G G AP 1000 is going from orange to green Thele Everest 29. 

[00:16:28] SL Primus XP goes from brown to. FACHE four 50 and 4 84 have their, uh, thresholds changed. Red will be with two to three master elements now, black with one mastered element and a black two with zero mastered elements. Therom protector goes from black four to black five, and then we have downgrades. The ACE, a 5 27 goes from blue to green. 

[00:16:54] The Mako 4 27 goes from blue to green. Mature champions, C 30, C 31 C 39. Go from purple to blue, the ABA 1 0 9 5 8 2 from brown to purple. And it looks like we have a few organizational changes in the list there, but those are the major changes. As far as new belts this week, we have the big Kebar earned brown this week. 

[00:17:24] Lon red. We have three new black belts this week. So, uh, please welcome black friend. The finagler just earned black for picking the SSA 700, the twin combi 5,800, the twin 5,700 Baltic, 6,000 and the 10 with gins as well as the goal Z. So a whole lot of difficult Lock picking there, taking the difficult route to black and arm Lock. 

[00:17:52] Also earned black. This. He went pretty heavy on the dis detainer route with the Ablo Kosik the Ablo profile, the Ablo century, and the Ablo exec also thrown in was the do DIMONT and thes 700. And then as some of you may already know the newest of the black belts announced this week was Lock new. I'm just gonna read the post as it was put in the discord here, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Lock new as our newest black belt pick. 

[00:18:21] Clearly you won't have heard of this obscure Lock Porter. So it falls to me to tell you that this friendly and supremely helpful Lock picker has achieved this rank by picking the Rosen grins 32, a 81 S with a homemade tool. He also picked the Dom Demont with a homemade pick tool. He has shown breadth in picking skills by opening the Lagar 2270 safe Lock. 

[00:18:46] Dis detainer impressioning and making cutaway locks. He has shown depth of knowledge of locks, like the Chub, Ava and commitment to the community by moderating the UK Lock sport forum and core organizing the yearly UK meetup. Oh. And he runs one of the biggest Lock sport channels too. So congratulations to all of you on your new belts and for anyone not already familiar with the Lock United belt system. 

[00:19:11] Links in the show notes to all of the rules and some videos explaining how the process works. So be sure to check those out. And now it's time to thank you to the people that made this episode possible. We'll start with Patreon subscribers and those include. Jimmy longs Meddler. Panda-Frog Michael Gilchrist. 

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[00:19:42] Chief content producer for this episode is I Fisk sending the most information used in this particular episode. Other content producers are Albert LaBelle, bear bones Lock picking Chirael correct jeans, dark art Lock picking. Karma HP logic, a B metal head Ivan, Jeff Maas, Joe picks, Joshua Gonzalez, Newhouse Lock and key rain. 

[00:20:01] Snake tiger. Trav and Tony Reley. Thank you to all of you for your support, quite a list. Thank you very much. And remember the show is only possible because of all that support. So if you value this show and the information. Please help. Keep it going. The number one thing you can do send in your news links, events, give away information, anything you can think of that you think the community should or would like to know about, send it to podcast at the Lock Sportscast dot com or any of the other methods listed in these show notes. 

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[00:20:52] Quick reminder stories about things that happen in Lock sport, either to you or to your friends. Um, something that happened because of your involvement in locksport or because you're locksmith that you think is an interesting story that should be shared on the show, feel free to send it in Locksports gas.com/contact. 

[00:21:08] You can send them there. You can also send feedback there. If you want that shared on the show or kept confidential either way is up to you. And you're welcome to, uh, submit it in the form of a note, video, audio, recording, whatever you want. Just remember to keep it reasonable length, polite work, family safe, no politics, and not just drama. 

[00:21:24] If you do want your comments shared on the. And moving on to second half of the show, we start off with the criminal news. This one is entitled, highly priced Pokemon and LeBron James rookie cards stolen from card shop in Northwest fresco. This is an older article, actually back from April 26th, written by Peter Lopez out of Fresno, California. 

[00:21:47] Uh, police said that someone broke into a trading card in collectible store over the weekend. According to the owner of bases loaded someone used a Lock picking tool to open this door's front door and walked in. They also helped themselves to a variety of highly priced collectible cards, which set the store back. 

[00:22:05] Thousands of dollars. The store owner says this sort of thing has happened to them in the past, but it's been about 10 years since then. He also mentioned that the suspect knew what they were doing when they broke into the store. Saying that they had an agenda among the stolen items from bases loaded include LeBron James rookie cards, a Kobe Bryant card worth about $500 and many others. 

[00:22:27] One card was a limited edition Pokemon trading card that was only offered to those who participated in a competitive event. Back in 1997 in Japan, that card alone worth about $1,200 us. The article says that the basis loaded store reached out to other collector stores within the community to create an awareness of the recent incident. 

[00:22:50] I would say if you've had this type of thing happen in the past, if that refers to your Lock has been picked in the past even 10 years ago. And then again, during this episode, probably want to think about getting a different Lock. Normally I would say you don't need to worry too much about your Lock being picked, but since you have an actual history of people picking a Lock to get into the. 

[00:23:11] I think then it's time to upgrade to a Lock. That's more difficult to pick as well as possibly some other security measures. And then this article was from May 28th thieves in India. Allegedly got inspired by fast and furious and stole over 40 vehicles. This article was featured in auto evolution written by Sebastian Toma. 

[00:23:33] The top paragraph in the article says in a Hollywood inspired story, three thieves used what is described to be a software based hacking device to steal over 40 vehicles in new deli. Each of the targeted vehicles were stolen within two to three minutes. As attackers tricked their system into accepting new keys. 

[00:23:52] The rest of the article goes on to say that new deli police have arrested the three men and they discovered the crew's high tech tools, including scanners and GP. Jamming devices. Um, according to the police series of thefts was inspired by the fast and furious franchise. After stealing the vehicles, the suspects would apparently park them in locations where there were no cameras until the vehicles were ready to be sold. 

[00:24:16] In other regions of the country, the police apprehended the suspects during one of these transactions, when seizing the vehicle, police also found some of the tools that they had used. Those tools included what police described as a sensor. Magnets Lock, picking tools and eight remote car keys. So car thieves, physio, physio. 

[00:24:37] I work in India. I don't know where they got the inspired by the fast and furious franchise from, I don't see where they're making that tie from what they've released in the article. But interesting. Anyway, the next story is out of Kuala Lumpur. Police arrest, a gang of car thieves on the para since 2014. 

[00:24:59] This article came out on the 14th of June, says a gang of four car thieves who have been active since 2014 were busted by central police. Central O C P D said, members of the gang were arrested between June 4th and June 8th, four gang members, and two women who are believed to be the girlfriends of those arrested were caught after a number of raids. 

[00:25:22] Following the arrest police managed to locate eight stolen cars. This sentence right here is the one that brought it to my attention. It's kind of weirdly phrased. So I'm not sure it means what it says, but says the suspects would identify cars before sending out one of their members who is a car mechanic to Lock, pick the cars. 

[00:25:42] Now, whether that means they were actually picking the locks, or if that's a translation issue saying that they broke into 'em, I'm not sure. Uh, the police say they would then disable the alarms before starting the engines with a modified Allen key. One of those arrested had 33 previous criminal records and was wanted for car theft and drug offenses. 

[00:26:02] 13 cases have been solved. Following the arrests. Investigations are underway to trace the remaining stolen cars, linked to the group. Moving on to sales southward sale page has been updated. There will be a link in the show notes so you can check out what's listed there. Bare bones Lock picking has 10% off store wide on top of other discounts with the code down under monkey 10, that expires on June 30th. 

[00:26:27] And yes, I know I screwed up on my listings of sales last week. I apologize everyone. Um, several people caught me on it and then I tried to fix it and screwed it up again. So thank you to everyone who pointed it out so I can get it fixed as quickly as. New house locking key 10% off with the code Lock Sportscast without the last a that expires the end of June Lock pick mall.com. 

[00:26:54] We have three codes, one for dark arts Lock, picking the code dark VIP one for Albert LaBelle with the code Albert and one for Joe picks with E code Joe picks. So pick your favorite Lock border and use their code. If you are at Lock pick mall dot. Over at 3d Lock sport.com. We have one code 10% off with the code LS, cast 10. 

[00:27:15] So be sure to check that out. If you are shopping over at 3d Lock sport, picking up your favorite 3d printed Lock sport gear. And of course these never seem to expire. Make a locks.com 15% off with the code by Mako. No known explor. UK Lock Pickers dot code UK. Same thing, 10% off with the code gift with no known expiration. 

[00:27:40] So be sure to just add those to your list. Anytime you're shopping at those places, use the code moving on to giveaways. We have a new giveaway from snake. It's the Lock sport stickers giveaway. The description says I'm in constant amazement over how awesome the Lock sport community is. All I see are people helping each other by sharing knowledge and items. 

[00:28:02] As a small token of appreciation, I'm going to give out some Lock sport stickers for a chance to win. One of them. Simply comment on this video with hashtag Lock sport, and I will enter you in a drawing to be held on June 24th. So a link to that giveaway video in the show notes, be sure to stop over, check out snakes channel and ensure the giveaway. 

[00:28:25] And we have the Lock new 100 K subs Lock master picks giveaway. Looks like they have a total of 10 winners with two different prize packs. So be sure to check that out that is run over at gleam IO. So a lot of the entry conditions are things like follow blocker and block new on different social media sites. 

[00:28:46] If that's something you're willing to do, be sure to check out that giveaway. And then CLK supplies always has their hashtag Lock boss giveaway running lots of good prizes over there. So be sure to check that out. If you're into giveaway. And remember to send me any information you have that's Lock sport related. 

[00:29:01] Even if you don't think it's important, it could be the bit of information I need. If you think it's super important and big news, and everybody knows about it, guess what? I probably don't send it anyway. I would rather get too much information than not enough. I really, really, really need the, uh, the support. 

[00:29:17] I know I bake a lot for it. But it's cuz it really helps the show keep going. And I appreciate all of you who continue to listen, check out the show and share information. So remember to keep it legal.