I know where it is.
Party at @Sigene’s tonight at 11!
What, no “Hide-a-Key” rock?
Did you put a glowtag on it in case it’s at night?
In a few days, @Sigene will return to thank us for helping break ground for the new vegetable garden in the NW corner.
I discovered the Lock Picking Lawyer shortly after locking myself out of my flat. I called a locksmith who easily picked both locks, while I watched.
I have 10 yr old nephew who is really into theatrical magic and … woah, what the perfect gift!
He was raking padlocks successfully after about 2 or 3 hours.
Dick Tracy’s Crimestoppers Pro Tip: Don’t tell people your secret hiding place.
I’m pretty sure @Sigene posted that sarcastically. Thus my remark in kind.
This suggests a question…why hasn’t anyone invented more robust locks? Doubtless there are some crazy mechanisms out there but I mean more consumer level, easy to use and reasonably inexpensive (even if a bit more than the easy to pick locks).
If I were the Lock Picking Lawyer I would get to work on a lock that he’d find difficult to pick and sell that. He could make a lot of money I’d think.
As the saying goes ‘Pick two.’
There’s, at least, one lock out there that’s extremely difficult to pick, the Bowley Lock ~ $134.99 - $795.99.
Here’s the two problems; thieves don’t pick locks and the lock is only as good as the door and the wall it’s in. If you have the option to gain entry destructively the lock, no matter how good, isn’t even going to slow you down.
Yeah, the whole structure needs to be more secure before you really worry about better locks. If I lock myself out, I’m not going to break a window pane unless I’m pressed for time. I’m probably just going to jimmy a window open.
You can absolutely buy security locks that are not at all trivial to pick or drill, at least not by a non-professional, except they are by no means cheap. Look at the Fichet F3D for instance (interestingly enough, the Fichet 787 is vulnerable to a decoding attack… perhaps a deliberate backdoor?)
Yeah, that’s really the problem with looking to YouTube videos about the real security of locks
The YouTube lock community is overwhelmingly dominated by folks into locksport,
Not folks that want to get through doors as easily and quickly as possible.
(Which is understandable, they’re showing off their cool picking skills not providing a B&E 101.)
That said,
Think LPL is good with picks? Here’s what he can do without them,
A Mk 3 Mod 0 HEDP rocket will get you through that door.
Bosnian Bill and LPL did a whole series of lock vs firearm . . . don’t temp Bill with even more fun.
And I think Bill has the connections to get a Mk 3 Mod 0 HEDP rocket lock pick.
That’s pretty cool but, ISTM, angle grinders are the beat everything tool and cheap and easy to use (also some are battery powered).
I live in a hi-rise so, either you climb up 20 floors or you come in through my front door. And my front door is surprisingly robust. Very solid and in a steel frame. I doubt police could bash it down with that handheld bashing rod they use (I dunno…maybe they could…do not want to find out). Which means the simplest way into my place is probably bashing through the drywall next to my door which would put you in my guest bathroom. Not sure what pipes and conduits are there though so still probably not easy.
In the end, given time and some tools, anything can be got through. You could probably break into NORAD given enough time and welding torches and a lot of determination.
Yeah a cordless angle grinder would get through that in about 10 seconds, maybe less.
Tangent, but this has led me to seeing videos about comically huge bike locks. At some point it can’t be worth it to lug these things around can it?
