Lockpicking - by Deviant Ollam

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Presentation Slides

I keep copies of all versions of my slides as they are presented at events around the country and the world. I do my best to keep these files as small as possible by not embedding all the videos and other content that is part of my lectures and trainings. If you are viewing one of my presentations and wish to have these additional files, they are available on the resources page.

The most updated versions of my main presentations are available here...

Full Training
Ten Things
Four Locks
Lockpick Village
These are the slides for my full "Lockpicking and Physical Security" training program offered at Black Hat, HackCon, and other events around the world.
This is my "Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Lockpicking & Physical Security" talk which covers the most popular material in a one-hour format.
This talk, "The Four Types of Lock," was first presented to the Secret Service. It assesses the differences between basic, commercial, high security, and nearly unpickable locks.
This is a PowerPoint file that is used to give quick overview presentations at Lockpick Villages which TOOOL runs at security and hacker conferences.

Archives of past versions of my slides are available here...

2010/01/30
Black Hat DC The Federal side of the Black Hat conference series is held in Arlington, VA in the spring. At the 2010 briefings my topic of "the Four Types of Locks" was included and it's become very polished and properly fleshed-out.
2009/12/7
PaulDotCom I gave an interview on the PaulDotCom radio podcast and these are the slides that i had submitted to them for inclusion on their web site and reference during that session.
2009/10/20
SeaCure
(preview)
At the SMAU conference in Milan, Italy there was a preview of the SeaCure material that will be shown the coming spring. Here are some slides i used to show why phyiscal security matters, some common examples of weak Italian locks, and how to hack one's love life.
2009/10/06 HackInTheBox At HackInTheBox, Babak and i prepared a whole new chapter of material concerning rotating disk locks and how they can be exploited. Since this is considered the "premiere" lock in Malaysia, it was astonishing how weak they are and how many ways they can be attacked.
2009/09/17
ekoparty
(talk)
At ekoparty i gave a new spin on my "four types of lock" talk. Again, with some more focus on things in their part of the world. Heh, and at the end of it i introduced Gringo Warrio with an all-new storyline geared towards this audience.
2009/09/16
ekoparty
(training)
Down in Argentina i gave a one-day training that focused a bit on what flavors of security one sees down southward. It was well-received.
2009/08/25
Philly JECTF I wound up revising the new "four types of lock" talk just before my presentation... this was the final version of that talk at the time.
2009/08/24
Four Types of Lock When i was invited to speak to the Secret Service and some FBI folks at their quarterly meeting, i wanted to come up with something new... so i made this talk about the "four types of lock" and this is the first version.
2009/07/27
Black Hat Vegas This is the slide deck that Babak Javadi and i used for our training session during the 2009 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
2009/06/10
ShakaCon III Again i gave a full training at ShakaCon. The new forensics material went over very well, as did my demonstrations of how many places truly shitty locks appear.
2009/06/06
SummerCon This was my first time at what is known to most as the world's oldest hacker con. In a real throwback bit of fun, i conducted just a plane jane intro to lockpicking workshop and it was a smash.
2009/02/15
HackCon 4 This was my first time giving a full-course training at HackCon in Oslo. I included a little bit more focus on electronic locks than i often do in my physical security trainings.
2008/10/08
SecTor 2008 The SecTor conference in Canada was wonderful enough to have me stop by and setup a Locpick Village. On day two, i gave a new version of my "10 things" talk. Here are the slides.
2008/08/15
major update After Black Hat & DEFCON i rolled in all of the new stuff i added during those conferences and also worked on some other additions i've been meaning to get to for a while.
2008/08/08
DEFCON 16

I did not give a full talk at DEFCON this year (well, other than a version of my "Flying with Firearms" talk in the 303 skybox) but did often give intro to lockpicking lessons in the LP Village. These are the slides from that mini-lesson.

By the way, the Master Lock combination dial decoder spreadsheet that we used in the shimming/combo mini-lesson is available to the left under the "Resources" section of this site.

2008/08/02
Black Hat Vegas This is the slide deck i used for day one of our two-day training sessions during the 2008 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Day two's material on electronic locks and access control systems will be made available in time.
2008/06/10
ShakaCon II
(talk)
During ShakaCon itself, i had a traditional speaking slot and gave the one-hour Ten Things Everyone Should Know presentation, with some small updates.
2008/06/09
ShakaCon II
(training)
An update to the existing full-length training that i devised before ToorCon Seattle, this was my most successful event to date... a room packed with over thirty people and i ran the whole course start to finish.
2008/04/17
ToorCon Seattle This was my first full-scale training event, an all-day affair conducted with the assistance of Datagram, a west coast notable in the hobbiest lockpicking scene.
2008/03/24
BlackHat Europe This is the PDF writeup document that went with the above talk. The crew at Black Hat found my preparation for their event quite impressive, i must say.
2008/03/24
BlackHat Europe For my first Black Hat talk, i created an entirely new presentation focused toward a corporate audience. Entitled Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Lockpicking and Physical Security, this covers some of the basics as well as some key factors concerning concerns specific to larger institutions.
2008/02/15
ShmooCon 4 Virtually the same as the presentation at ToorCon 9, this was a half-hour lightning talk about bump keying. I did, however, intoduce the Gringo Warrior game for the first time ever here.
2008/02/06
HackCon 3 My third presentation in Norway, this time at HackCon i was with Q (Andrew Righter) and we discussed electronic security technologies.
2007/10/19
ToorCon 9 This was a very short half-hour talk, focusing exclusively on the current status of the bump key attack.
2007/09/26
SecVest This talk represents the first time i reorganized my presentation materials, covering all weak locks first and then introducing high security materials in the second half.
2007/09/05
HITB Malaysia A very short talk, covering just a few basics and introducing the Lockpick Village.
2007/02/05
HackCon 2 My first time in Norway, this talk was also one hour and similar to the SUMIT lecture above.
2006/08/11
SUMIT 2006 A shorter, one-hour talk covering the essentials of lockpicking only.
2006/01/15
ShmooCon 3 My talk with Renderman, it's a pity that there aren't detailed slides for his segments on antique locks, safecracking, and the Scorpion system.
2005/07/30
DEFCON 13 My first major talk, i spoke for over three hours. New additions included sections on handcuffs and gun locks.
2005/04/18
West Point Similar to the ShmooCon talk, some new topcis like barrel locks, SFIC systems, and the American Lock fable.
2005/01/16
ShmooCon 2 My first talk ever, with all HTML slides.