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Last year, eleven year old JennaLynn demonstrated her ability to bump open a Kwikset five pin cylinder in about five seconds at Defcon 14. That event was perhaps the main catalyst to focus attention on the security threat that bumping posed to the general public. Well, this year she has graduated to high security locks. After several attempts, she was able to bump open a six pin Medeco® Biaxial® cylinder three times. One of these demonstrations was captured by the news media and a short segment of that interview between Marc Weber Tobias and JennaLynn is shown here.

Was it just luck, or has she advanced her bumping skills during the past year. Medeco has claimed publicly there cylinders are “virtually bump proof” and assume that all of these locks that have been bumped are manipulated. We can attest that this was a standard Biaxial cylinder and was working properly. All internal components were factory original and the lock was complete in every respect.

The cylinder was immediately sent for independent forensic analysis to confirm that the lock had not been tampered with or was in any way specially prepared for this demonstration.

See the brief excerpt from the complete interview with JennaLynn.

See the complete interview with JennaLynn at Defcon15

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