Key Bumping and How Medeco Doesn’t Protect You
A lot of chatter has been generated lately about Key Bumping. Key Bumping is a real thing but you’ll often hear people say that you just need to install a Medeco lock or one other specific type of Schlege lock in order to be protected. Turns out that’s not entirely true.
I don’t know about Schlage’s bi-lock or Primus locks but Medeco’s locks have very recently been easily compromised.
Medeco deadbolt locks relied on worldwide at embassies, banks and other tempting targets for thieves, spies or terrorists can be opened in seconds with a strip of metal and a thin screw driver, Marc Tobias of Security.org demonstrated for AFP.
If you continue reading the article you’ll see that even electronic locks are no longer secure.