NSL Lockpicking meets next Friday, June 17th starting at 7 PM.

This month’s topic will be Medeco pin-tumbler locks. King with give a
short presentation about how they work and how they can be opened
through a variety of methods. He is the inventor of the “Medecoder”
picking and decoding tool and is very proficient at picking these
locks. I’ll be bringing a number of padlocks that use Medeco cylinders
for everyone to see. These are heavy duty armory locks used by the US
Military for securing weapons and ammunition.

In addition, this will be the LAST CHANCE for you to get points in for
our first competition! Whoever has the most points at the end of this
meeting will be crowned the winner and will be awarded a fantastic
prize at the July meeting.

There’s still lockpick sets available (the new one with nice handles)
for anyone interested.

Hope to see you all there,
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Introduction to Microcontroller Programming (using the PIC 16F628A)
Thursday, May 12, 2011
7pm – 10ish
Price: $0.00 (Donations to NSL’s beverage fund are appreciated)
 
Topics covered:

1) Configuration:
Learn how to set up pins for input and output.
Understand the elements of the configuration word.
How to connect the PIC to your circuits.
 
2) Programming:
The complete instruction set. (35 commands!)
Using MPLab, and the simulator.
Program flow.
Bit-masking.
How to mimic instructions that don’t exist.
 
3) Troubleshooting:
Common programming errors.
Common PCB/Breadboard errors.
Debouncing / Output amplification
 
This class will be taught entirely in PIC Assembly, so if you’re thinking about learning Assembly, this will give you an introduction on one of the simplest systems there is. If you are already an x86 Assembly genius, most of the programming will be a piece of cake.
 
By the end, you should be able to make your own blinky-lights projects, read digital input, and control things on a circuit board. I have a few little demo-boards built that we might get to use at the end if people want to mess around with them. If you want your own, tell me and I’ll give you a kit to solder.
 
If people are interested, we can do a second class later on topics like PWM, USART, and ADC.
 
–Viduata

Super duper non-meeting tonight at NSL.

Absolutely nothing planed, Docwho is making an arduino based network monitoring device which will be fun to watch.  A special vote will be held by all keyholders to oust M from his position as benevolent dictator of NSL…..kidding M, have fun in Korea!

Enzo will be inventing new swear words as he works on his Moog theremin of Doom…

So come on by and say hello.

Cheers,
-DES aka M in absentia

This month’s topic is HIGH SECURITY LOCKS and how they work. King will be giving a small presentation in preparation for the Lockpicking Village at LayerOne 2011 (http://www.layerone.org). Contest meeting #5 continues this month, with Eyes still in the lead (scores did not change from last month). Remember, there are only two more meetings to get points in! Getting in the lead is easily possible by getting a few more locks open : )

Remember that LayerOne is coming up. Register through NSL, LA2600, or on the website at http://www.layerone.org. There will be a LOT of lock stuff going on, with many of the big locksport names coming out from all over the country to give presentations at the Lockpicking Village, provide some fun lockpicking competitions, and general dick around and enjoy the conference. You can get some more info on LayerOne’s lockpicking area and see some photos from the last L1 at http://www.layerone.org/?page_id=105.

hi!

I am no longer feeling like a crazy person, so the malwares are back on! Though this month there’s gonna be a twist: this week isn’t gonna be about reversing! Nope, this week is going to be about writing.

I’m going to be going over some basic concepts such as cool places to hide your evil binary, communicating with a command-and-control servers as well as some fun anti-debug/obfuscation things! If you’re into coding at all– or even interested in seeing how the bot folk like to hide in the system’s thickets– this Friday will probably be the malware Friday for you!

Fri Mar 25th, starting sometime between 7 and 8pm.  Hope to see you there!

–frank^2

NSL Lockpicking meets again on Friday, March 18th (Two weeks from today).

This month we’ll be having part 3 of the competition (ending in June) and for those interested a hands on workshop (bring your own tools) for impressioning. Impressioning is an attack where we take a blank key and gather information from the lock to make a working key. The poor man’s toolkit only requires a fine file and a pair of vice grips, but if you want to get GOOD tools (which, in my opinion, make a huge difference) I would recommend the following:

http://www.lockpicks.com/standardplastichandleimpressioningtool.aspx
http://www.lockpicks.com/pippinfile2-cutmediummostpopular.aspx
http://www.mbausa.com/item.asp?num=MB16-A (optional, but pretty awesome)

The finer the file the better, and preferrably a swiss, pippin, or round file. Remember: A finer file will allow you to better distinguish impressioning marks, a good grip will let you get better impressioning marks, and the viewer, though optional, does help identifying hard to spot impressioning marks. Impressioning is not very easy to do the first few times, but once you get it down it is a very powerful and relatively easy to perform attack that just takes patience and practice.

I will also have a new batch of lockpick sets if anyone is interested. These are not the same as the ones we have had before and they have a few different types of picks in them. Many people said they would like picks with the reinforced handles, so there are a few of those in the new set. Price for the new set will be 25$.

Here are the standings thus far in the competition. You can see some of the changes in score based on people beating each others’ times:

Anna 65 (-2)
Eyes 55 (-1)
Jeremy 35 (+35)
Fred 26 (+19)
Sam 24 (-1)
Daniel G. 17 (+0)
Strap Pappy 15 (-1)
Braddock 5 (+5)

I will print out a sheet with all the current scores and times so that you can focus on locks you haven’t tackled yet as well as improve your time on those you might be behind on. Hope to see you all there, and maybe Adrian’s dumb ass will make it to this one

With love,
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Imperial Wizard, NSL Lockpicking
Motherfucking Professional
Co-founder, Dick Swang Affiliates

This week at NSL we will start building logic analyzers, will put up new build notes as the design is completely different. We changed some bits to make it compatible with more software, and cx wanted to do some stuff so it didnt need any jumpers. Its going to be $30 with the probes $25 without.

You can use: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10086 if you already have them.

http://wiki.032.la/nsl/Talk:AnnaLogic – sign up, gonna order more parts tomorrow.

the spoils of last weeks trip

On Thursday, if enough people are interested we will be heading back to Far Bar. $20 for 15 different types of sake, and you get to keep your glass.

Cheers,

-M

It seems we have settled in to a nice schedule at NSL.

Tuesdays, open night… bring stuff in to fix (we supply the tools you supply the fixing). We have a pretty good success rate, so far 6~7 laptops fixed and one PS3 that wasnt.

Fridays we have lock picking and malware.

Saturdays, we are going to start build night and general ‘STFU I’m hacking over here’ night… (this Sat is the DIYBio Party!) Where we will put on a movie (sorry Enzo) and build stuff.

Sundays DIYBio

And of course you should feel free to stop by whenever NSL happens to be open.

Cheers,

-M