But other hackers have since refined Brocious's work, tweaking and perfecting his tool and posting YouTube videos of themselves reliably opening Onity locks on hotel room doors.

An Onity lock and (inset) the circuit board Onity has now offered to replace for a full reimbursement in many hotels' doors. After four months, countless hacking embarrassments and a string ...

Other hackers, also inspired by Brocious, have developed their own devices to pick Onity locks. However, the James Bond lock-picking pen seems to be the smallest and perhaps the coolest yet.

The Onity keycard lock that is used on millions of hotel room doors has reportedly been hacked. According to Forbes, 24-year-old Mozilla Firefox OS programmer Cody Brocious discovered the ...

The pen builds on the work of security buff Cody Brocious, who publicized a flaw in lock-maker Onity's systems earlier this year. It relies on the fact that the locks have very little security on ...