Scramble key
Scramble keys, also known as luckbreakers, electrolockpicks, lottery keys, or electronic lock pick,[2] were a type of electronic lock breaker developed to bypass electronic locks that required a password or code input to open a door.
Description
An anti-security device capable of overriding alarms, bypassing security systems, and opening computer locks, scramble keys cycled through possible codes at incredible speeds, having an enormous processing power. Because of this, the device often found the correct code faster then it could input them. While manual overrides were possible, it was not as effective as allowing the machine to process the code by itself.[1]
Jango Fett owned an electronic lock breaker with an algorithmic security bypassing system. Despite heavy regulations, tools of this nature were favored by slicers, criminals, spies, and bounty hunters. The con artist Crix Griff carried a scramble key.
Appearances
"Fair Prey"—Star Wars Gamer 1- Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
- Star Wars: Yoda Stories
"Heroes Need Not Apply" – Star Wars Adventure Journal 12 (as electronic lock breaker)
"The Argovia Strike" – Instant Adventures (as electronic lock pick)- The Last Command (First appearance)
- The Last Command audiobook
Sources
- Planets of the Galaxy, Volume Three
- Cracken's Rebel Operatives
- The Star Wars Planets Collection
- The Last Command Sourcebook
- "Smugglers of the Outer Rim" – Star Wars Adventure Journal 5 (as electronic lockpick)
- The DarkStryder Campaign (as electronic lock pick)
- The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook (as electronic lock breaker)
- Gundark's Fantastic Technology: Personal Gear {{ID|Electronic Lock Breaker
- Player's Guide to Tapani (as electronic lockpicker)
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Visual Dictionary
- The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology
- Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook
- Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Core Rulebook
- Endless Vigil (First identified as Scramble key)