OP is a manic pixi dream something.
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tried to unlock my tragic backstory
No wait, tell the locksmith to come back.
In this part of the Pick Your Own Adventure, if you pick the "let the bos unlock you" path, you have to start reading from the back cover to the front because it turns into a manga with no girls in it.
Unless this dude looks like a complete troll I’m pretty sure he’s rolling in it with that set of skills…
Hell Im a straight dude and I wanna meet him.
I know how to pick locks for the same reason I know how to solve a Rubik's cube. I like solving puzzles
I'm a handyman. I don't advertise lock picking as a service I offer due to liability issues. But occasionally a client asked me if I can pick a lock. There have been times where I said okay. This might take between 5 seconds and 30 minutes. And they turn away. And 5 seconds later the lock is picked. Then they start asking all kinds of uncomfortable questions about how they can get better locks.
When a client moves into a new house I usually include changing all the keying for each lock because you have no idea how many people have a key to that house.
When I do a straight change out of all the locks in the house I save all of them and put them in my garage workshop. When I'm cleaning my workshop and I find one of these locks I make a point of picking it.
Never once has any of this resulted in a cute woman (not a girl) being interested in me. Some people have accused me of being a wizard or a boy scout but mostly being able to pick a lock just demonstrates to people how insecure they really are for their safety.
The first thing I learned when learning to pick locks was that locks are a lie we tell ourselves and nothing we do can stop a sufficiently motivated person from getting into an area. Even if every possible measure is taken, your house is always going to be 5 min with a drill and sawzaw away from having a new door.
Locks keep out opportunists, people who go down the street jiggling handles to try to find an open door. Locks do nothing to keep a motivated person out if they want to get into your stuff specifically.
This is it. We're basically on the honor system, and criminals are looking for easy targets.
Never overestimate how secure a lock is when there is a sandwich of vinyl siding, OSB, insulation and drywall just six inches away.
After watching hours and hours of Lock Picking Lawyer I realize that locks are merely a deterrent for honest unskilled people.
CGPGray mentions this in his older video about encryption. Locks are a deterrent, but a motivated person or government forces can bypass relatively easy. The reason it works is because of the personal danger to people trying to break in getting caught. He used it to contrast how digital locks need to be much stronger since they can be "picked" from across the world without any physical danger of being caught or arrested.
And maybe one day governments will realize that if they mandate a one size fits all key to encryption they are intentionally breaking that lock and someone will both figure it out and use it against them.
Yeah, that's what prompted the video. It was back when US government was demanding an Apple backdoor, and he argued what you said.
It's generally faster to pick a window than a lock.. and by pick a window, I mean throw a rock through it.
Find someone who thinks you're cool because you fell out of several trees and cried at a small ungulate
My girlfriend asked what I wanted in a relationship. " I want all the standard stuff of mutual support and what not but I think what I really need is someone that has experience as a personal assistant and a special ed teacher."
She happened to have experience in both of those fields. But I had to break up with her. She was desperately trying to be everything I wanted and that is one thing I can't stand.
Seven years later we got married. She said that breaking up with her was the best thing I could have ever done.
But I had to break up with her.
Seven years later we got married
You're not very good in breaking up, are you?
If breaking up was the solution and it created long term happiness then I'm going to have to say that I'm an expert at breaking up based on this one case.
But then again there were the other cases. Is a 50% mortality rate good or bad?
It's a lot like quitting drinking.
One day at work, someone locked the storeroom keys in the storeroom. Luckily the network engineer had a set of lockpicks in his car, and knew how to use them. He played it like lockpicks are a perfectly normal thing to carry in your vehicle, but we don't buy it.
I learned lockpicking at a security conference I attended with my class in college while getting a degree in networking. Lockpicking is one of those things that normies find scary but it's actually a pretty fun and easy skill to pick up. Seriously go buy a $20 kit on Amazon and have some fun!
Was it Defcon? They usually had workshops on picking locks. Those conferences were so fun.
No it was Cyphercon in Milwaukee. Lots of people there also have defcon badges and swag so there's a ton of influence from Defcon at least
Nice. I've never heard of Cyphercon, and Milwaukee is a lot closer to me. Probably a little too soon for me to manage to make it happen this year, hopefully next year.
If you don't have lock picks, handgun with silencer, scuba suit and parachute in your car, you're not prepared when your hero moment arrives.
Look all I'm saying is if you didn't work on at least one weird skill during covid you did it wrong
I only found myself saddled with a house, a degree a wife and 2 kids. Not sure how some people got off so easy with just a couple of weird skills...
I need to practice. I got a practice lock but I absolutely suck with it
It's hard to describe since it's mostly based on feel. You start by feeling around to build a kind of mental map in your head. Then when you start you're keeping the right amount of pressure on the tension wrench as you mess with each pin. You gotta have a gentle touch and it takes some time to find how much is enough.
MIT has a paper on the process too, I'll see if I can find it and link it here
Yeah, I'm feeling kinda called out by this thread... We got locked out of a job-box at work and I didn't have my kit, I was fuming when we had to call a $200 locksmith for a masterlock and I was about to start throwing fists when they said the anti pick bumps "made picking impossible" and drilled through it. I was convinced that they do that with every lock, zero knowledge or experience and just go around raking people over the coals to destroy their property.
Right? I know it's all about making money in the end but just a few minutes of picking might be enough, and if not you can say you tried.
I've watched too much LPL and feel your rage. But yeah, your typical locksmith doesn't give a shit and is on a schedule. Fastest way into a lock is gonna be drilling it or going around it.
Yeah, I have a pick, but when I need into a lock what I have is bolt cutters. Sure I'd love to get better and be able to throw open a lock with ease, but when in doubt I don't trust myself enough to buy a padlock that resists bolt cutting.
I will say though, my U lock I got for $15 and accidentally let rust to uselessness took a remarkable amount of effort to bypass. No angle grinding, but it took some serious dremeling and a pair of cheater bars with the cutters
The worst part is that it was a job-box we were locked out of. There were probably 4 drills and numerous other tools to destroy the lock and get inside.
Look all I'm saying is if you didn't work on at least one weird skill during covid you did it wrong
Some of us had to work and didn't get the chance to bake bread and connect with nature, goddarnit!
Your loss. I know how to make cheese
Great skill to have, and not really difficult, just a matter of practice and getting a feel for it. I learned from a neighbor when I was just starting college, after he saw me locked out of the house. He was a tool and die maker, had a nice set of picks he made himself. Still have the small set he gave me in a toolbox somewhere, though haven't used them in over 20 years now so terribly out of practice.
I'm a handyman. I don't advertise lock picking as a service I offer due to liability issues. But occasionally a client asked me if I can pick a lock. There have been times where I said okay. This might take between 5 seconds and 30 minutes. And they turn away. And 5 seconds later the lock is picked. Then they start asking all kinds of uncomfortable questions about how they can get better locks.
When a client moves into a new house I usually include changing all the keying for each lock because you have no idea how many people have a key to that house.
When I do a straight change out of all the locks in the house I save all of them and put them in my garage workshop. When I'm cleaning my workshop and I find one of these locks I make a point of picking it.
Never once has any of this resulted in a cute woman (not a girl) being interested in me. Some people have accused me of being a wizard or a boy scout but mostly being able to pick a lock just demonstrates to people how insecure they really are for their safety.