User blog comment:Mr.Sleeping/SKYRIM: Confirmed Skills/@comment-72.152.153.39-20110729091814/@comment-4213014-20110730042004

Found.

Security is confirmed - May 2011 Gamer.no interview.

Q: How do you handle lockpicking?

Todd Howard: We have a mini game for it. I hate the concept of mini-games! "Combat is also a mini game!". What I mean is that if there is a skill for it, then there must be some kind of interaction onscreen, so it is not a [behind the scenes] roll.