Presented at
The Circle Of HOPE (2018),
July 20, 2018, 8 p.m.
(120 minutes)
Lockpicking has been an official part of the presentations at Hackers On Planet Earth for almost 20 years now. (The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers (TOOOL) has existed for nearly two decades in the Netherlands and emerged here in the USA at The Fifth HOPE in 2004.) And yet there are still so many stories to tell and new things to share! This year's locksport panel will again include voices and faces from a wide range of picking groups around the country and around the world, but will incorporate more lessons and instruction than last time's free-for-all. Everybody who asks a cool question will win a small prize. If you ask a question that none of the panelists can answer, you win an even bigger prize. If you bring an awesome demo device to show the panel and the crowd, you might win the biggest prize of all... audience members can offer up a lock or key of their own for inspection by the panel, who must endeavor to identify it and discuss how the mechanism works and how it might even be opened.
Presenters:
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SPAM
as Spam
**Spam** is one half of the duo that brings locks, liquor, and love to many events here for decades. How does he look so young?
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Deviant Ollam
Both Hermione Granger and Vinz Clortho the Keymaster have nothing on **Deviant Ollam**. He appears, looks at an elevator, and produces the proper key. It fits perfectly every time, taking him to Platform 9 3/4. Unlike Hermione Granger, Deviant doesn’t need the Alohomora spell to open doors. He just spits whiskey at them and Voila! They open! The proof is on the Internet, folks: you want pictures, it’s got video. He even does it all in a suit with proper glassware.
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TheSleep
**TheSleep** [bio redacted by order of the Department of Hopeland Security, directive 456.31D(4) - Secrecy Surrounding Details of Awesomeness So Great That They Would Make Others’ Heads Explode]
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Smoke Legend
Ninjas vanish in a puff of smoke... but this TOOOL member named **Smoke Legend** not only can appear in a puff of smoke, but also open locks with a puff of smoke, makes puppies wag their tails with a puff of smoke, and leaps relatively run-down midtown New York City hotels in a puff of smoke... before ultimately vanishing in a puff of smoke.
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NoHackMe
**NoHackMe**: You’d better not hack him... it’s right there in his name. Seriously, have you heard the stories of what happens if you try? That’s right, you haven’t... those who attempt to are never heard from again.
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Nite 0wl
**Nite 0wl** (@nite0wl) is a lockpicker, a locksmith, a whisky aficionado, and he has secretly been carrying the Hope Diamond in his beard since he stole it in 1987. (The one now on display in Washington’s National Museum of Natural History is a copy that he made by hand-filing leaded glass.)
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Max
**Max** is a TOOOL Boston mainstay and former Antarctic powerlifting champion, a title he garnered in 2006 by dead-lifting 144 penguins, besting the record formerly held by Konstantin Pavlov who lifted 126 penguins in 1973.
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Lady Merlin
**Lady Merlin** is director of operations of TOOOL and the first NASA scientist to pilot a remote craft to low earth orbit while controlling it exclusively from the driver’s seat of a 1964 Ford Mustang that she rewired to interface with the remote unit’s controls and telemetry data.
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Click
**Click** is the TOOOL NYC member who had to move across the country because he picked all the locks he could find in the Big Apple. Now he spends his time synthesizing new elements, a la Tony Stark, for the fabrication of new tools and hardware.
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Chaz
**Chaz** is frequently mistaken for Chazz Palminteri, but his name is not spelled the same way. While he shares a surname with the famous New York City actor, Chaz from TOOOL spells his first name with only one letter Z.
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Ann
**Ann** is a TOOOL DC force of nature... and also, somewhat ironically, mad scientist who has created a weather-controlling machine in her lab. If you’re enjoying the sunshine and blue skies this HOPE, thank her!
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Aidan
In addition to being a fabulous lockpicker and escape artist, **Aidan** claims to have secretly ghost written the epic biography: The Secret Life of Harry Houdini (ISBN 10: 0743272080).
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