Opening locks with a hard disk

[DrDoom]

It was fun and interesting, we managed to open locks by using computer spare parts, like a hard disk and a mouse. Pictures and video here: http://www.sorgonet.com/security/hdlockpicking/

[Romstar]

Geez guys,

Modify an electric razor for heaven sake. It's smaller.

Although, if your like me junk computer parts are cheaper. <G>

Take the motor out of the hard drive, put it into the mouse, and use the mouse by itself.

Romstar

[logosys]

It was fun and interesting, we managed to open locks by using computer spare parts, like a hard disk and a mouse. Pictures and video here: http://www.sorgonet.com/security/hdlockpicking/

Nice, I never would have tried that!

[Murph]

After reading about all that work, I'll just stay with my pickset.

[toomush2drink]

Nutters i love it

[sevenply]

Blasphemy. That is electrical tape not duct tape!

[hzatorsk]

There are plenty of good sources of electromechanical motion that are easier to get at than an voice coil out of an old hard disk.

Take for example: An old school bell, A doorbell, a cheap door buzzer, old relays or electric latch solenoids.

All of these devices will work based on the theory that a coil wound to create a magnetic field wired in series with itself will provide cyclical motion (vibration) if the energizing of the coil causes the device to interrupt its own circuit.

Bells and buzzers are already wired to do this and just need the appropriate battery and picking tip.

[Varjeal]

Oh...c'mon guys, give 'em a break....that's very innovative...suprised that wasn't on a MacGyver episode...hehehe..anyways, cool idea, I guess....though I'm still not tearing my computer apart to try it.

[S3rratedSp00L]

I'd like to look at this as a kind of camouflage.... I'd get rid of the mouse and try to make it look as much like a normal HD as possible.. For the power switch, I would cut a few traces that go to the header and wire it up to allow me to use a jumper for on or off. (Like the jumpers for master and slave for instance.) While it was apart, I'd screw the weight on to make the vibration. As for the screwdriver, I'd just grind a special straight pick that could be fastened to the drive, but try to keep it looking as untouched as possible. Then if you get stopped with it in your pack, most people won't even check it to see if it works like they would a flashlight! It's an interesting concept... although it might be easier to just sneak in a manual pickset. You could always use the hard drive as a pick case for your maual picks that doubles as an electric pick gun!

Those magnets they put in the drives are very strong and great to mess with!

I have a stack of old hard drives with nothing to do.. I might mess with them a bit and see what happens! Might be fun...

It might be nice to take the HD motor and control out and make a more normal electric pick gun.. It would be a lot of work, but old crappy hard drives are free

[RangerF150]

Totally mad , but i'm impressed

[Kodack]

That's pretty cool.

Your methods remind me of my attempts at modifying common items when I was a kid.

I once took a Nintendo light zapper and dug out all the internals, attatched a step down transformer on the outside with duct tape, took two headphone plugs and stuck them out of the front of the barrel and powered the whole thing with a 9v battery.

What did it do?

Simply touch the two electrodes (headphone plugs) sticking out of the barrel to somebody's skin, pull the trigger and the reversed transformer stepped the voltage up to 200+volts and gave a nice little shock.

IT had a built in safety as well, since 9v batteries are DC and transformers only work on AC it would only shock for a split second and then stop. Like a half wave AC rectifier.

Hmm.....A nintendo lightzapper lock pick. Now THAT would be cool. I'm' thinking, a tatoo gun solenoid attatched to the 'pick' and run off a battery inside the handle.....