This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: a lamo hack
Article: 7540 of alt.hackers From: wmoyes@cello.gina.calstate.edu (William A Moyes) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: a lamo hack Date: 25 Mar 1995 20:47:15 -0800 Organization: GINA and CORE+ Services of The California State University Lines: 16 Approved: I can't think of anything interesting to put here. Distribution: world Message-ID: 3l2rkj$5n4@cello.gina.calstate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cello.gina.calstate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
rizzo@jerky.boys.com wrote: : Lamo hack: Needed to unlock my car door which had the keys inside, so I : grabbed a coat hanger and jerked it down inside the window, and surely enough, : the thing unlocked. It is easy as hell especially on slightly older American : models. But before you try this you must know that on many new cars doing this will DAMAGE the linkage in the door. Car manufactures will put the mechnism inside a plastic case, design the linkage to disengage if moved wrong (making the door impossable to open, even with the key!), and other assorted tricks. ObHack: Learning to pick locks. ObFutureHack: Learning to impression locks.
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