Ancient or not it's new to most people! Claims are the government has known, about locking bumping for 50 years and locksmith's for 20 to 30 years.

Due to the internet, mass knowledge of lock bumping is available to everyone and this make it a current and future threat to everyone.

An estimated 80% to 90% of locks installed in homes and being sold currently can be bumped in seconds. It's time people get wise, spend a couple gas tanks worth of gas and install quality locks to protect their thousands of dollars in investments!

I purchased a 21 bump key set myself to test my apartment locks. I'm thinking about notifying the Apartment Manager of this huge insecurity and will tell her I'm moving out if they don't find a fix quick.


I just had my new 2007 vehicle broken into last week and a hundreds of dollars of stuff stolen. Mostly, my Valentine One. It has a factory locking system and they found a way to bypass the drivers side door. I'm now going to get a two way paging viper alarm system on it. I'm not ready to get my apartment broken into!

Old to you but not to me

Well, looks like the Mythbusters have broken the biometric finger print scanners with ballistics gel! Who would have thought? Of course, that requires obtain a decent finger print sample. However, I don't see anyone going through that kind of trouble to get in a house or being smart enough.

I think the weakness of security is NOT having multiple levels or chances to verify correct identity. An simple example would be using not only biometric finger print reader, but also enter a 4 to 5 digit pin number that might be rotated or changed every so often. Rotation is a good strategy to avoid weakness and added multiple security checks. I think we see enough security checks in windows now with Vista..lol The real trick is having enough security without compromising a certain amount of convenience, otherwise people won't want higher security.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E20lHqbWqN4

Well, I have a built in fingerprint reader on my HP notebook. I swipe your finger over a small stripe.

It suits my needs and works for me. I use it mainly to avoid keyloggers for my bank accounts and such. It will automatically enter the password for me and log-in once I swipe my finger.

For my security purposes a finger print reader offers more protection even if it has been compromised. I still would like to see banks use Smart Card as part of the validation to log into bank accounts online with a password.

I talked with Wells Fargo and they were not interested in such an idea and it would cost them to much.