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The Search for the Perfect Door - Deviant Ollam

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  • Presented by Deviant Ollam, physical security specialist

Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Deviant Ollam demonstrates how physical doors and entry systems are bypassed by penetration testers and criminals without picking locks.

You have spent lots of money on a high-grade, pick-resistant, ANSI-rated lock for your door. Your vendor has assured you how it will resist attack and how difficult it would be for someone to copy your key. Maybe they’re right. But… the bulk of attacks that both penetration testers and also criminals attempt against doors have little or nothing to do with the lock itself! This talk will be a hard-hitting exploration (full of photo and video examples) of the ways in which your door — the most fundamental part of your physical security — can possibly be thwarted by someone attempting illicit entry. The scary problems will be immediately followed by simple solutions that are instantly implementable and usually very within-budget. You, too, can have a near-perfect door… if you’re willing to learn and understand the problems that all doors tend to have.

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What people say. Highly recommended as an entertaining and eye-opening presentation on physical security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.

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…ou can just open the external box with some easy to get (and relatively standard) key. And hit a button. Related: link This is a good related talk - goes outside the box on all the ways you can often get into commercial buildings without picking (or even in many cases, interacting with) the lock "The Search for the Perfect Door" by Deviant Ollam link to this video Also good: link Howard Payne & Deviant Ollam - This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key link [DEF CON 22 - Deviant Ollam & Howard Payne - Elevator Hacking - From the Pit to the Penthouse]…

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On “Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?”

I hope this isn't too much of a stretch. Heard it recently and thought it was really interesting. link to this video

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On “Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?”

Deviant Ollam - The Hotel Room Gourmet link Also not 2018 but his elevator with Howard Payne talk: link (1h version) link (2h version) And the search for the perfect door: link to this video

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On “Socially Engineering Myself into High Security Facilities”

Someone leaves their computer unlocked when they walk away -> network access. door locks: locks are bad, and doors are awful link to this video

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On “How to mitigate the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident”

Assuming this was done at the government's request, I assume Hetzner is more than willing to comply with a court order mandating they allow them to monitor and physically size a machine. And outside of nation-state requests, even ignoring the fact that someone could probably pay-off an employee, I think ease would depend a lot on the datacenter and target; judging by the awesome and hilarious story behind the Fremont Cabal accidentally becoming an internet exchange by essentially having some dude barely secretly slipping unauthorized cables into the raceways 1, I figure there are a lot of places where if your target is simply renting a couple rack units or single rack rather than an entire…