We don’t regularly follow physical security, but I enjoyed the article (thanks Bruce Schneier). It’s interesting to note that “high security” locks mean that they can stand up for 10 minutes — and according to Marc Weber Tobias, none last more than a few seconds reliably.
But the parallel that I find most interesting is how, as I’m prepping our next demo (where I hack a SharePoint server), is how little original work I had to do. Smarter people than me had already done the legwork, just like regular crooks who use Tobias’ work to bump the lock on your bike. You don’t have to protect your doors & servers against what you can do, but what the sum of the smartest hackers can do.
Side note, I want to buy this laptop just to have the big guy’s computer 