Understanding physical security products makes consumers, manufacturers, and society safer.

Consumers who understand how locks work, how they can be exploited, and how to choose the appropriate device for a situation can make informed decisions.

Manufacturers who are made aware of weaknesses in their products are able to address these issues in future products.

Educated consumers and informed manufacturers create a market that is more favorable to better products, which is advantageous even to uninformed consumers.

For the sake of improving the general state of physical security products, TOOOL presents research carried out by the respective authors. TOOOL believes that sharing information about flaws in, exploits of, and improvements to physical security devices benefits all.

We also insist that researchers ethically disclose any flaws or exploits to the manufacturer before publishing.

Research displayed here is the intellectual property of the authors.

We welcome your submissions! If you have an idea, draft, or ready-to-publish paper, we would love to hear from you! Email info@toool.us to inquire.