Oct 192005
On September 11th, 2005, Sportsfreunde der Sperrtechnik (the German lock picking club) sponsored an impressioning contest. Impressioning is the technique of taking a key blank and filing it down to make a working key. This is done by inserting the blank inside the lock, twisting it back and forth, and then filing where marks appears along the upper edge. This year champion was Oliver Diederichsen from the Hamburg Sportsgroup. He successfully made a working key for an ABUS C83 in 6 minutes and 53 seconds. You can watch a video of Mr Diederischsen during the contest here.
Great article, but should it have said “November 9, 2005″? If that’s right, you’ve got some impressive up to the minute reporting.
Love the site tho!
Josh
Oops, I was even farther off than that. The date should have been September 11th, 2005. The article has been corrected and thanks for pointing that out