Elevator Obscura: Hacks and Curios in the Lift Industry

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2 жыл бұрын

You've seen Howard and I talk about Elevator Security before. This is a little-known presentation we once gave at a small hacker con in North Carolina all about the more rare and obscure side of the industry: strange settings, curious configurations, and outright hilarious hacks that keep elevators moving up and down.
It's an older talk, but one that never really got many views on another channel in the past so I'm re-releasing it here for you all.
Enjoy!
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@DeviantOllam 2 жыл бұрын

So I wanted to drop a pinned comment in here to acknowledge and share some of the really helpful messages I've gotten from folk clarifying Sabbath rules to me. I nearly married someone who was Jewish, so I'm very familiar with the hurdles of keeping a kosher kitchen, etc, but never having been Jewish myself I wasn't familiar with some of this and I have been interested to hear these details. 👍

@christopherpardell4418 2 жыл бұрын

I was once walking thru downtown Portland Oregon with my honey, when I saw across the street a very old brick building that had a cornice of granite around the top that said “Otis Elevator Company” and I stopped to stare at it and started laughing softly. “What’s so funny? “ asked my girl. “That used to be the Otis elevator company building”. And she looked and said, “ yeah, but why is that funny? “. And I replied, “Its only one story tall.”

@zac08 2 жыл бұрын

Dev, just to add on for the pet mode in Japan. What it also does is to bump up the air filtration level inside the cabin and clean it up so that when the next user (who may be allergic to the fur) will not get affected by the previous user (aka the prev occupant and the pet)

@TheSmackfan101 2 жыл бұрын

So, I work hospital security and after watching a bunch of these videos, I decided to buy some elevator keys, picks, and bypass tools for the lulz. It just so happens that we had an attempted kidnapping, so a code pink was called, but the elevators were still running because our contractor was a POS who didn't do his job correctly. While the nurses were upstairs chasing the crazy woman, I was able to use my feok1 key to shut down the elevators while my team responded.

@Spirit532 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, in almost every talk you mention "ask him(us) about the crazy stories we don't have time to talk about here!".

@clemdelaclem 2 жыл бұрын

The best part about talks like this is that for the rest of your life anytime you take an elevator you will watch it's mechanics and analyse them. 99% of people won't even think twice but after watching deviant you ascended to 1% who have nothing better to do than learn about elevator haking

@knuckle12356 2 жыл бұрын

I have absolutely cut a key from a picture my buddy posted on Facebook. I went to the new tattoo shop, of which he was (justifiably) proud of having secured a lease. I proceeded to open his front door for him with my key, handed them over to him, and then explained the dangers of posting such details online. (Especially bad that he had named business in same post as the key photo.... 🙄)

@Dingomush 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a carpenter, working in a refinery, I got trapped inside an old Ottis elevator for five hours with a guy who was claustrophobic. Bad thing was, this elevator was on a running processing unit and the whole superstructure shook. So here we are, not able to get out, stuck between the 8th and 9th floor (industrial floors, 25’-30’), being slammed from wall to wall like being in a washing machine, not knowing if the “emergency call” button was connected to anything and it’s too loud to yell for help. Come to find out, the “emergency call” button wasn’t connected to anything and/or the light had burned out. No one knew we were in there until the elevator repair team showed up. The guy that was in there with me never rode that elevator again. He would always take the stairs…..

@HamiltonMechanical 2 жыл бұрын

+1 for using footage from the Secret Life of Machines. Side note, Tim Hunkin has a youtube channel and just uploaded all the remastered old videos with new commentary at the end! Definitely worth going back and watching them! RIP Rex! Never forgotten!

@ElmerCat 2 жыл бұрын

As a twelve-year-old kid in the 1960's, I would spend hours playing in the elevator machine room at the hotel where we lived. It was fascinating to watch the equipment operating, and I eventually figured out how to manipulate the relays on the control board to make it do whatever I wanted. For example, when a passenger entered the elevator and selected floor 6, I could cancel the call and send them to floor 7. Other times, I'd send the elevator to the floor they selected but keep the door from opening, and then immediately return the car to the floor they started from. Things like that. Such fun!

@blaisetruesdell9924 2 жыл бұрын

I went to a school that had half floor numbers. The cab had doors on both sides and one side had whole numbers and the other side was half numbers. The elevator was essentially built in between two different buildings with different floor heights.

@oriolgonzalez9328 2 жыл бұрын

I can't believe how much I like a talk about elevators, but it lifts me up to a whole new level.

@Loweko1170 2 жыл бұрын

30:08

@TimpBizkit 2 жыл бұрын

11:20pm time for sleep

@laminatedsamurai 2 жыл бұрын

The elevator talks are some of my favorites. Just you and Howard yucking it up and blowing people's minds.

@elgard18 2 жыл бұрын

“We need another 20 minutes tops”…40 minutes left in the video. Love it.

@jameshealy4594 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite company is Schindler, I particularly like the "Schindler's lift" model.

@Kas_Styles 2 жыл бұрын

46:10

@davidmcnellis319 2 жыл бұрын

Funny you should say you won't run out of air. I was stuck on an elevator at Cleveland State U while delivering a 300 lb load of dry ice to one of the labs. Luckily the phone did work and they got us out in about 10 min. or so but the air was getting a bit thin in there.