Schuyler TowneSchuyler Towne is a mechanical security researcher and competitive lockpicker. He has won the Speed picking and Gringo Warrior competitions at DefCon in Las Vegas (netting a Black Badge in the process), and has won the Locksport Wizard and Defiant Bo competitions at Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE). While he's yet to make it to the finals of LockCon in Holland, he faced and defeated the #2 lockpicker in the world in head-to-head competition (says Towne, "I went on to face the #1 who absolutely schooled me. I've got a long way to go yet.").

His work has been covered by the Boston Globe Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, The Atlantic, All Things Considered, and the Associated Press (he even got the chance to talk locks with Pat Sajak once). Read More Read Less