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SUMMARY:High security locks: illusion or reality - Marc Weber Tobias
DTSTART:20071002T151500Z
DTEND:20071002T161500Z
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CONTACT:Saar Drimer
DESCRIPTION:A case study in compromising the most popular high security lo
 ck in America: The Medeco m3.\n\nIn the United States two standards organi
 zations rate cylinders for their ability to withstand forced and covert at
 tack and certify these locks as suitable for high security installations. 
 Yet are the standards actually what they represent and are consumers reall
 y secure if they rely upon them especially if high value commercial or gov
 ernment targets are involved?\n\n\nMany high security lock manufacturers c
 laim that their cylinders will be impervious to covert methods of entry in
 cluding picking and bumping and that they offer high levels of key control
 \, effectively preventing the illegal or unauthorized duplication of their
  keys.\n\nIn this presentation\, Marc Weber Tobias offers a detailed analy
 sis of how the Medeco lock\; of one of the most respected manufacturers in
  the United States and Europe was compromised by his research team. These 
 cylinders are utilized to protect the most secure areas of commerce and go
 vernment\, not only in America but also in many other countries. This is a
  serious case in which there has been a basic failure of imagination on th
 e part of design engineers to properly assess the security of the locks th
 at they produce. This has resulted in the exposure of facilities to seriou
 s potential vulnerabilities.\n\nBio: Marc Weber Tobias is an investigative
  attorney and a physical security expert in locks and safes. He was traine
 d as both a lawyer and criminal investigator and has been a certified poly
 graph examiner for the past twenty years\, employed by government agencies
  and private clients. He works in the United States and has conducted thou
 sands of polygraph or lie detector examinations in both criminal and civil
  investigations involving cases of kidnapping and murder to employee theft
  from commercial businesses. The polygraph is utilized throughout the worl
 d by police and intelligence agencies for a variety of purposes\, includin
 g the verification of statements by suspects and victims\, plea bargains i
 n criminal cases\, and vetting of government employees and intelligence ag
 ents to obtain and maintain security clearances. Marc Tobias has worked se
 veral high-profile cases and in one investigation\, he conducted the polyg
 raph examination of the career criminal in Sweden that provided the gun th
 at killed the prime minister of that country in 1986.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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