Combination locks! They’re great if you’re skilled at remembering arbitrary strings of numbers, and have a dramatic flair that’s made them a famous part of many a heist movie. They come in a wide ...

3D printers may have failed as a home appliance, but researchers at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut aren’t ready to give up on them just yet. Last year they successfully 3D-printed a working door handle ...

Over at the 23B hackerspace in Fullerton, CA, [Dano] had an interesting idea. He took a zip tie, and trimmed it to have the same profile of a lock pick. It worked. Not well, mind you, but it worked.

The University of Michigan has developed a programme called KeysForge that, on paper, looks like it kicks open the door for a burglar-friendly dystopian future. With Keysforge, users can apparently ...

The Transportation Security Administration can bypass almost any luggage lock using a set of master keys. And now, so can anyone with access to a 3D printer. A set of CAD files were published this ...

Three hackers have developed and released a 3D printable master key used by Transportation Security Administration, which opens Safe Skies luggage locks. During a talk given on Saturday, the three ...

Apple software engineer Nirav Patel wanted to create something useful with his 3D printer, so he designed a system that generates any key from any lock from any manufacturer using just the lock code.