TOOOL is once again proud to be hosting DEF CON's Lock Pick Village! An important part of the LPV is the many informative talks hosted throughout the weekend, furthering our mission to advance public knowledge about locks and lockpicking! To that end, we are excited to officially open our call for content. If you have a locksport themed talk or presentation please submit it below. We're also excited to continue bolstering the contests side of our content this year. We have an official dozier drill tourney on the DEF CON contest list, but if you have something you'd like to pilot we'd love to hear about it! If you have any questions about the application or lock pick village content please email our content lead Kataze at [email protected]
If you're in or near Brooklyn NY, next Friday and Saturday is #SummerCon the oldest hacker conference in the US. We were invited by some of the nicest people to host the Lockpick Village. If you're going, drop by #Lucky13 and pick a few of our locks or pop a safe.
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented "backdoor" that could be leveraged for attacks.
Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term "backdoor" to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated the title of our story.