Blogging Breaks Locks

Once again, the blogging community has managed to information from the secret domain to the public one. Last week, Kryptonite locks, often heralded as the most secure bike lock, were revealed to be exceptionally easy to break (using a plastic pen no less).

In this set of breaking news, a video of how to break into the Kryptonite lock, like the one seen here on Engadget, surfaced and quickly made its ranks through blogging community and surfaced in various news sources.

What's most interesting, however, is the simple fact that knowledge of how to pick these locks was common within the security industry, but how it stayed relatively contained until this moment. More importantly, Kryptonite knew it too. This flap is expected to cost them tens of millions of hard cash and immeasurable dollars from the depletion of reputation in the public eye.