{"id":81,"date":"2006-12-06T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T22:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=81"},"modified":"2006-12-06T01:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T23:04:54","slug":"the-russian-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Rant &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I will postpone my vacation to Russia for a little while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"blegh\" href=\"http:\/\/toool.nl\/mirror\/mirror.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trophy\" title=\"trophy\" src=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/images\/trophy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the <a title=\"scroll down to read\" href=\"http:\/\/blackbag.toool.nl\/?p=31\">comments <\/a>of the Russian lock article an interesting discussion<br \/>\nwas taking place. People who call themselves a Russian lockpick<br \/>\nsportgroup, fans of locks and lock manufacturer had spicy comments<br \/>\nabout me. They did try to invite themselves to the entire Dutch Open<br \/>\nweekend. I kindly told them people I never met before are not welcome<br \/>\nto the closed part. I guess this was one of my best decisions this<br \/>\nyear (so far).<\/p>\n<p>It took them a little while, but now they found a reason why they were<br \/>\nnot welcome: I am on the payroll with ASSA abloy group and am nothing<br \/>\nmore then a puppet on ASSA abloy strings. In their fantasy story they<br \/>\ndrag in Russian thiefs, the Mafia, the KGB and even narcotic abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Truth of the matter is I think they are just disappointed.<br \/>\nDisappointed I did not want to be the &#8216;independent expert&#8217; to publicly<br \/>\nscrutinize the Yale lock that competes with them on the Russian<br \/>\nmarket. Personally I could not care less if it can be bumped or not.<br \/>\nIf a company wants to hire me to publicly attack competitors locks I<br \/>\nkindly say no. It is just not ethical. If I was in it for the money I<br \/>\nwould have gladly accepted, but I did not. And of course they are<br \/>\ndisappointed they could not bluff their way into Sneek. I assume in<br \/>\ntheir area they do not hear the word NO often.<\/p>\n<p>All in all it is a very sad rant. And for me they show not to be<br \/>\nsecurity professionals. Professionals do not get carried away by<br \/>\nemotions, but act &#8230; professional. The way they personally attack me<br \/>\non me being a little bit too heavy is also rather &#8230; sad.<br \/>\nAnd for the record: I do not smoke&#8230;. never did.<\/p>\n<p>Coming back to being on the payroll of ASSA Abloy: I have an income<br \/>\nand do not need support from anyone. And I take pride not to be &#8216;for<br \/>\nsale&#8217;. If you make such claims please back them up with facts. There<br \/>\nsimply are none because I am always very careful when it comes to<br \/>\ntaking money from the lock industry. Even when testing locks for the<br \/>\nbiggest and richest lock companies I rather receive a nice cut-away<br \/>\nlock instead of money. And all the companies I work with know that I<br \/>\nwill not hesitate to publicly show attacks to their locks if I<br \/>\ndiscover them. Of course I will give them 3-6 months time to fix it.<br \/>\nBut I will always publish them.<\/p>\n<p>All in all a very sad attempt to damage me and my reputation. So far I<br \/>\nthink it only works counter productive. In showing this unprofessional<br \/>\nattitude, and publicly complaining I do not want to be hired to test<br \/>\nthe competitors locks as an &#8216;independent expert&#8217; for them.<\/p>\n<p>And the website they put up. It is weird. They seem to be in war with<br \/>\nthe entire world. Look at the &#8216;independent lock fan group&#8217; handing out<br \/>\nheads of pigs as trophies&#8230; brrrr &#8230;. it gives me the shivers.<\/p>\n<p>I can advise everyone to at least look at this link and click around a little:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/locksclub.nm.ru\/com\/new_290506en.shtm\">http:\/\/locksclub.nm.ru\/com\/new_290506en.shtm<\/a> (* <a title=\"mirror mirror ...\" href=\"http:\/\/toool.nl\/mirror\/mirror.htm\">Mirror<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>For me this is the end of this conversation. Unless there are claims I<br \/>\nfeel are worth to comment on I will not spend time on these people<br \/>\nwith their tinfoil hats and conspiracy theories. For me this case is<br \/>\nclosed. I only deal with rational professionals.<\/p>\n<p>(* that was fast &#8230; minutes after my postings the russian pages went down. Here is a <a title=\"mirror\" href=\"http:\/\/toool.nl\/mirror\/mirror.htm\">mirror<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(** that was even faster &#8230;. site is back up again. Was it a glitch or they figured it was no use?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I will postpone my vacation to Russia for a little while&#8230; In the comments of the Russian lock article an interesting discussion was taking place. People who call themselves a Russian lockpick sportgroup, fans of locks and lock manufacturer had spicy comments about me. 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