Deviant Ollam

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The physical security researcher and TOOOL member whose lockpicking talks put the discipline in front of network audiences that had never considered the door.

At the fifth edition of YSTS, in May 2011, he opened the event with the basics of lockpicking and sold kits to the room afterwards - which is the whole argument in one gesture, since a lock is a control whose failure mode you can hold in your hand. Physical access defeats most of what the rest of a security programme buys: a server room door, a rack lock and a badge reader sit underneath every network control, and they are usually the least examined part of the estate.

Also known as: toool, lockpicking

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