http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/world/europe/16amsterdam.html By John Tagliabue New York Times September 15, 2009 AMSTERDAM -- People of this free-spirited Dutch city, known for its legal prostitution and easy marijuana, have found another pastime that flirts with convention and the law: picking locks. On a recent Wednesday evening, Jos Weyers sat hunched over a magnifying glass studying the contours of a key that was taking shape as he filed away at it. Across the table, Jos Meyer sat picking at a standard front-door lock with a set of tools that looked for all the world like a collection of slender dental instruments, painted black. Mr. Weyers, 39, is among 100 or so members of a club in the Netherlands called Toool, for The Open Organization of Lockpickers, that is dedicated to picking locks for fun. The movement has been growing over the last five years, with a chapter now in Eindhoven, in the east of the country, and foreign branches in several places, including Germany and the United States. About 15 of the members, including Mr. Weyers, met recently around a long rectangular table piled high with boxes of locks in an artists. cooperative on the east side of Amsterdam. Ms. Meyer (Jos is a unisex name in Dutch) is not a member, but her friend Marco Zuiderveld has been for the last six years, and she accompanies him occasionally to the club's meetings. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Wed Sep 16 2009 - 22:33:09 PDT
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