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Our articles on tamper evident bypassing, lock picking, hacking and other physical bypass methods. We also have the content from talks we have given at various conferences, and info about hacker conferences we have attended.
Tamper Evident Fixed Length Seal Bypass
In this post, I'm going to show you how to bypass the B-Sealed EnaTail 2 fixed length seal. This tamper evident seal bypass is one Boo and me came up with as part of the OzSecCon 2018 Tamper Evident Bypass Competition. There are a few ways to bypass this seal but I...
How to Pick a Combination Lock
Today I'm going to take you through how to pick a combination lock. A couple of weeks ago we picked up a pair of 4 digit combination padlocks from Bunnings to see if we could easily bypass them. As it came in a pair we thought we could have one for picking and one to...
What is Tamper Evident Bypassing?
I started writing this article two years ago and only finally finished it! The idea to write about tamper evident bypassing and what it is came up because we had an interview to get into a new school one morning and we were asked about tamper evident bypassing. We...
How to Open a Safe Without the Key or Code
We have had this safe at home for a while. So the other day we thought we would see if we can work out how to open it without the key or knowing the code. It didn't take us too long to work out three different bypasses for the safe: Bypassing the lock entirely by...
Lock Picking is Not a Crime – It’s a Sport
Lock Picking is a Great Sport for Kids We have had a few negative comments since we first started posting on YouTube and other social media, with people saying that lock picking isn't a sport, it encourages criminals, and kids like us shouldn't be doing it, but today...
How to Bypass Tamper Evident Wristbands
In 2017, 2018 and 2019 we competed in the Tamper Evident Bypass Challenge at OzSecCon in Melbourne. In 2018, after the conference, we put up a post about the 15 challenges and how to bypass them. In 2018 we also presented on bypassing tamper evident seals, many of...
Taking Over The Blog
If you've been following our blog you'd notice this is the third post we have made in 3 weeks. We had the ABUS Combination Padlock Bypass and our Keynote from Kids SecuriDay 2019. We had a really long break from posting but now we are back into it and I thought I...
Kids SecuriDay 2019 Keynote Presentation
Last year we presented the keynote presentation at Kids SecuriDay 2019 in Canberra on Privacy and Hacking Pokemon Go. Sorry it took us so long to put it up here. Here is the transcript, slides and videos from our keynote speech. Let us know in the comments what you...
Bypassing an ABUS 158KC/45 Combination Padlock
Why I Wanted to Bypass an ABUS 158KC/45 Combination Padlock In year 5 and up at my school we are given a locker with an Abus 158KC/45 combination padlock. One of my best friends forgot her locker code and came to me to ask me if I could open it. Not sure why she would...