hack a day has another little lock hack, this time affecting all MasterLock combination locks. By analyzing the tumblers, you can drop all the possible combinations from 64,000 (403) to 100 (10*10*1).
Or you can just jimmy it.
When you see lapses in security from the physical world like these you can almost always draw parallels to vulnerabilities in the digital world. Security protocols are rarely targeted head on, but through some sort of side channel analysis, and most of them are extremely week. We see it in everything from the latest copyright protection scheme to a company that offers data encryption for an end user application.