Thoughts on bike locks

[robbat2]

Having my bike stolen has made me wonder about locks more. Defeating most forms of bike locks are trivially easy with some lateral thinking.

This was my lock:

Lock properties and attacks against

key-based

bumpkey (given a suitable blank or other key of same style), pick the lock, drill or freeze the lock (either LN₂ or just adding in warm water on a day that's below freezing)

combination-based

guess or shoulder-surf the combination

Cable/Chain

Large bolt cutters, wire cutters or hacksaw

U-Lock/D-Lock

Use a jack inside the arms to apply outward force

Any other bicycle lock types or different attacks that you can think of? Any way to effectively defeat one of more of the above attacks? From a security perspective, we need to consider not only the permitted attacks, but all possible attacks.

In my case, they either defeated my combination (probably by shoulder-surfing), or just used some form of cutting attack. Since the lock wasn't left behind, I suspect the former more than the latter.

Comments

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

It's just as relevant in the real world as in Raven's talk, and well discussed in most decent security books.