No word on whether there will be a formal recall or not, but I can't imagine Ingersall Rand (current owner of the krypto name and likeness) responding any other way.
Here's their only written response so far:
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We understand there are concerns regarding tubular cylinders used in some Kryptonite locks. The tubular cylinder, a standard industry-wide design, has been successfully used for more than 30 years in our products and other security applications without significant issues.
The current Kryptonite locks based on a tubular cylinder design continue to present an effective deterrent to theft. As part of our continuing commitment to produce performance and improved security, Kryptonite has been developing a disc-style cylinder for some years. In 2000, Kryptonite introduced the disc-style cylinder in its premier line of products, the New York series. In 2002, Kryptonite began development of a new disc cylinder system for both its Evolution and KryptoLok product lines, which currently use the tubular cylinder design. These products are scheduled to be introduced in the next few weeks.
We are accelerating the delivery of the new disc cylinder locks and we will communicate directly with our distributors, dealers and consumers within the coming days. The world just got tougher and so did our locks.
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I've got a call in to their Customer Service dept., but beyond verifying which kryptos are in fact vulnerable they're not able to tell us anything else; just that they expect to know a lot more very soon.
Information about this has been floating around cyberspace for a few weeks now but the story broke wide open at about three this morning when someone posted videos and text to the global indymedia newswire.
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