A glowing, neon cube key with red, green, and blue faces, featuring a keyhole and window cutout, stands on a dark, cybernetic background with glowing circuit lines.

The NTSC (National Treasury Security Council) recently released Tumblers, a security software package being marketed to financial institutions. The NTSC asserts that Tumblers is 100% hacker proof, claiming that the software’s ten unique security levels make it impervious to any online breach. In an effort to embarrass the NTSC, the anonymous group PAL (Programmers Against Lying) has developed code, referred to as the “cube key,” that can unlock the electronic locks of the Tumblers software. The cube key is available for download for anyone who wishes to try their hand at safe cracking. To prevent the authorities from tracing any users of the cube key, PAL designed it to automatically stop working after ten minutes. Tumblers is an action-puzzle game where you use the cube key to unlock as many electronic locks as you can in ten minutes. A lock is unlocked once the cube key enters the keyhole at the top of the lock. The cube key has six sides just like a normal cube, with three unique colors: red, green, and blue. Each color occupies two sides of the cube, and opposite faces of the cube are the same color. When the cube key is stationary, the near cube face is shown with flashing color strips indicating the color of the top and bottom sides. See more