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Kryptonite: Kryptonite Lock
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Kryptonite is a leading provider of security protection products and has been the authority on bicycle and motorcycle security since 1971. The company is using its experience to develop the first complete product line of travel-friendly locks for notebook computers, including an innovative KryptoVault( and the computer industry's first 8mm braided steel locking cables. Braided steel is tougher to cut than the twisted steel cables found in most notebook computer locks today, offering greater theft resistance. Current competitors offer a limited product selection, with twisted steel cables that are only 4mm thick.
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Kryptonite, one of the leading manufacturers of bicycle locks, is in the PR fight of its life thanks to some enterprising bloggers who figured out how to pick the locks using just a ballpoint pen. You can track the blog buzz here.
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Kryptonite ... has its premier line of locks, named after the city with the toughest thieves, the New York 3000, New York Chain, New York Fahgettaboudit and the New York Chain and Molly Lock. All of these products come with an anti-theft protection offer nationwide for added peace of mind, including in New York City.
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Until 2004 Kryptonite locks used the tubular pin tumbler locking mechanism. In 2004, videos circulating on the Internet demonstrated that some tubular pin tumbler locks of the diameter used on Kryptonite locks could be easily opened with the shaft of an inexpensive ballpoint pen of matching diameter. Trade website BikeBiz.com revealed that the weaknesses of the tubular pin tumbler mechanism had first been described in 1992 by UK journalist John Stuart Clark. For an article in New Cyclist magazine he teamed up with a bike thief to show how easy it was to break in to the majority of bicycle locks then on the market. One of the methods he revealed was the ballpoint pen method. His article led to follow-ups in bigger circulation bicycle magazines and a BBC TV consumer rights programme ... carried a feature on the pen method.
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Specifically, Kryptonite will provide for free cross bars featuring the company's new disc-style cylinder lock technology to consumers who have purchased Evolution and KryptoLok series products. In addition the company will replace for free recently purchased Evolution Disc Locks on New York Chain and New York Noose with its "Molly Lock", a heavy duty solid steel padlock. Kryptonite ... will upgrade recently purchased disc locks.
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The Kryptonite lock was developed in 1972. Before then, the only comparable security available was from a chain, which could weigh almost as much as the bicycle itself. (A common humorous observation in bicycle magazines at the time was that the total weight of bicycle plus chain was constant regardless of cost, since owners of more expensive, lighter bikes would buy heavier, more secure chains). Inexpensive chains or cables were easily cut using commonly available tools. Indeed, local hardware stores would often sell chain cut to length with simple bolt cutters. The first Kryptonite lock model was made of sheet metal cut and bent to shape, but the company soon went to the circular cross section now universal.
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