ToorCamp 2026

Lock Drilling Class
2026-06-25 , Hardware Hacking Stage

Learn the fine art of lock bypass with a drill from a professional locksmith. When lockpicking fails it's good to know the nuclear kinetic option.


Come learn how to use a drill to open a door. One on one lesson from a locksmith on using a drill bit to defeat a lock. Drill, bits, gloves, and safety glasses provided. Join us to drill, stop by to pick up a practice cylinder to pick.

Louis Piano (Qweary) is a red teamer who happens to also be a locksmith for the US Department of the Army. He researches the collision of physical and digital security; demonstrating that the boundary between them was always imaginary. His hardware work includes a year-long reverse engineering project against institutional electronic locks, from NAND flash dumps to hand-patched TI assembly firmware hooks. On the cyber side, he builds multi-agent AI swarms with agentic capabilities for red team operations. Most recently, he deployed them at WRCCDC regionals, where Anthropic sponsored a blue team of 30-40 Claude instances defending against both his swarm and the human red team; this was a first-of-its-kind experiment to see the impact of augmented red team operations vs agentic blue team defense in a live competition. Based in Olympia, WA, he volunteers with OlyMega makerspace and believes persistence matters more than pedigree. This is his first conference talk.

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