Medeco

Researchers at DefCon in Vegas have demonstrated that they can make "high security" Medeco key-blanks out of the plastic used in credit-cards, and then whittle them into working keys by referring to low-resolution photos of original keys.

Boing Boing 2008

Working Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic

Boing Boing 2008

But last year at DefCon, Tobias and his colleagues showed how they could simply insert the end of a bent paper clip into a Medeco high-security lock to push back the slider, rendering the slider ineffective as a security layer.

Boing Boing 2008

Keith had gone with a Medeco Biaxial, a lock advertised as impenetrable, though imperfect was more accurate.

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The researchers demonstrated the technique using a Medeco mortise cylinder that Threat Level purchased in California before leaving for Las Vegas.

Boing Boing 2008

The Medeco M3 key does have an extra feature to secure the lock -- a step protrusion on the side of the key that's designed to move a slider inside the lock.

Boing Boing 2008

Yes, even to the thousands of homes that cost from three million to forty million dollars here, just fifty six dollars a year, (the cost of one Medeco key).

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The doors all have special Medeco high-security key cylinders, as do the interior safes or lockboxes.

The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

Fuad stepped into the doorway, unlocked the gate, and opened the Medeco lock on the front door.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

Fuad stepped into the doorway, unlocked the gate, and opened the Medeco lock on the front door.

Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003