The inconspicuous lock hacking device is an adaption of one demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in July by Cody Brocious, a hacker and software developer for Mozilla, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Onity locks, a cheap and popular hotel room lock that the company says are used on at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.

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Sometimes you will have to lock yourself in a room to write or code for 72 hours to make a deadline or ship a product.

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Not the type of songwriter to lock himself in a room until he's finished, Birdlips' Cliff Usher gathers the pieces for his songs from wherever he travels.

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