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Mark R

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Originally posted by: Jnetty99
The video is in europe, guessing the key styles in the U.S. are different?
My understanding is that it affects any lock with a key shaped like:

This

or

This

or

This

unless the lock has been specifically designed to withstand this type of attack.

Locks with this or This are immune.

 

Vegitto

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Dude, our locks suck. I never even bring a key with me. A paperclip is enough.. :p

EDIT: Okay, okay, I lied. A housefly is enough.
 

CKent

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My buddy used to keep his herbal refreshment in one of those expensive fireproof safes... one day, armed with a paperclicp and my swiss army knife, I got it open and tested the contents' flammability :D
 

FFactory0x

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So how did they do this? Would be cool to get a key and try it on my locks at my house.

Did the cut the end of the key off and just file down some of the pits or what?

Can this be made at home
 

OutHouse

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wow very interesting. thanks OP.

i wonder if american lock companies are going to try to defeat this. i just put 5 new kwickset locks and deadbolts in my house. i feel real secure now.
 

herkulease

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the music they have when the guy is show the technique is funny.

I can't remember what it is.

anyhow maybe it isn't the smartest thing to show this and say how easy it is to do.
 

EyeMWing

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Lockpicking is cake. And I've gotten quite adept at opening masterlocks without even picking them. (Some pricks sent us 300 PCs for disposal, armed with Masterlocks on the back of the chassis - normal people use sh!tty little 50 cent locks, but not these guys. They also neglected to give us the keys.)

Despite the "fact" that you "can't do it", I can smack them with a hammer and they pop open.
 

Toonces

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Originally posted by: herkulease
the music they have when the guy is show the technique is funny.

I can't remember what it is.

N.E.R.D. - Lapdance


 

Maximus96

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Originally posted by: Citrix
wow very interesting. thanks OP.

i wonder if american lock companies are going to try to defeat this. i just put 5 new kwickset locks and deadbolts in my house. i feel real secure now.

kwickset is the crappy cheap stuff at homedepot and the like...
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Maximus96
Originally posted by: Citrix
wow very interesting. thanks OP.

i wonder if american lock companies are going to try to defeat this. i just put 5 new kwickset locks and deadbolts in my house. i feel real secure now.

kwickset is the crappy cheap stuff at homedepot and the like...
It'd be WAY too expensive (and pretty ugly) to put Best Access Systems locks in a home.
 

SSP

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That sucks, but what about those simple little locks you just slide the rod over by hand? Ya got a key for that? :laugh: