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Subject: To all Bike owners who use U-locks by Kryptonite - BAD NEWS
This is not good. I never lock up my road bike but I am always on my MTB in the city and this is not good.

A friend of mine forwarded this to me. It was apparently just in the NY Times.


I haven't seen a posting on this yet, so I thought I'd warn all of you who depend on these locks to keep your bikes safe. U-locks by Kryptonite and other companies which use the barrel-shaped key are vulnerable to picking with--believe it or not--a plastic Bic pen. I tried this myself, successfully, on my own lock and was able to spring it in less than 30 seconds. These video clips show others doing the same thing:

http://thirdrate.com/misc/krypto.mov
http://biginjapan.com/extranet/assets/ben/krypto_ev_disc_web.mov

http://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=66128&page=1&pp=30

I called Kryptonite (see www.kryptonitelock.com) and they said they'd only heard about the vulnerability on Monday and that "things are going crazy here." No doubt. But they said they were looking at solutions.
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