Hacking ‘high security’ electronic locks has become a bit of a hobby, but what if you identify an unpatchable design pattern that unlocks buckets of cash and government secrets? How long do wait before telling ‘people’? let’s talk about how these locks are designed, where they fail and we can rip this band-aid off together. phar Mike Davis is a hardware security researcher and consultant with IOActive, and for some reason still responds to ‘phar’.