you should not leave a safe empty, so you can just throw some electronics in there that detect opening, movement etc. To allow for save handling, the alarm can be on a time delay. For the movement sensor, that would even be good practice. Imaging you move the box and it shrills a random amount of time after the trigger: You never figure out what movement activates the alarm.
@@jort93z A light detector is actually a nice idea. When you open it for maintenance (like changing the battery), you can just do it in a dark room and deactivate the system (like by removing the battery) by feel. A simple and easy solution.
A really secure safe should probably alarm even when opened as intended, like some door alarms for secure areas do, so if anyone is nearby they know it was opened even if someone stole a legitimate key/card/pin
I like the diversion idea. I have small safe that I needed to open because the keys were in it and when searching for a solution found this channel. It now sits empty on a prominent shelf.
@emilygoodenough9052 I think it does have some empty jewelry boxes and keys for cars I don't own anymore. It wasn't intentional but the things that were being kept in it have been moved.
@@zidane2k1 if you're a single person with few friends that will be more secure than a safe, but so is any non obvious hiding spot if youre single with few friends
@@monad_tcp because then someone who breaks into the safe thinks they found your valuables and doesn't keep looking. I literally only realized why I had been given that advice for years without explanation as I read this comment thread.
Have it small enough for them to walk away with and not having to deal with the locks at all on site, but heavy enough to cause them trouble carrying it. Must be gold bars in this, after cutting it open it's filled with lead weights.
"You would have been more secure without the safe as now all your valuables are in the same place" really is more of a scathing review than the easy picking.
A small safe like this doesn't do jack shit anyways. No robber would bother breaking into it, they'd just take the whole thing with them and break it open of necessary. Source: house robber stole my entire empty safe
I got a walk in closet with really stuck in door, you gotta lift and pull hard. I'm now under impression it is more secure than 90% locking implementations out there.
I mean, "lift and pull hard", plus maybe "whack with a hammer", is kind of how a lot of these locks are defeated (either picked or forced), so I guess it's at least on par...
@@jamesphillips2285 store the shoebox together with more shoeboxes with shoes inside. And have the "safebox" towards the bottom. Anyone looking through the boxes would just find shoes. And let them be old, used shoes, possibly on the cheaper end, to prevent a shoe thief from taking your stuff on accident.
@@Celestia282 agreed. I wasn't talking specifically about this safe though. I was speaking in regards to the over all general lack of security in the devices and how they are more fitting for games than actual security.
Most of those "manufacturers" are supplied the same lock by some company in China. You'd have to have the Chinese see LPL's videos if you want any changes while RU-vid is banned over there 😂
Damn... LPL is getting closer and closer to the ultimate video: LPL: Hello, this is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today I have for you... _Lock opens itself in fear_ LPL: As you can see, this one was very easy to open. That's all I have for you today...
It’s funny, before watching LPL videos I thought it was stupid to try to pick a lock with paper clips. When I received my locker at work, they couldn’t find the key so I just picked by making a pick and turner with paper clips and got it open. I was truly impressed with myself
Don't get me started on plastic mayonnaise/dressing sachets .. For some reason they don't want you getting inside of them if they don't have the tiny tear in the corner... grrrr
Alternative sticker : "If you locked your override keys, please note that you can open this safe in seconds with the Covert Instruments Tubular Lock Pick"
I filled mine's keyhole with removable resin unless they have the correct dissolvent no keys going in there. Got the idea from a similar lockpickinglawyer video from the past about vulnerability of such safes. PS: To those wondering what stops thieves from simply taking the whole thing and going away. It has lugnuts at the rear that pins it to the wall
Urrgh! Again! Spending hours researching for a small safe. Twice now I've decided on a safe, then searched here and found them to be so so easy to open.
I'm certainly no lock picker but am addicted to your wondeful, often a lot shorter than expected (like this one) videos on picking locks, etc. But it had never occurred to me to have this as a false safe in case of thieves, not only love it but it's really an excellent idea! Thanks.
"Thieves don't put the jewelry into the safe. They put it behind the painting next to the save or somewhere else less obvious." - Dureena Nafeel, Babylon 5.
>opens lockpicking lawyer video >sees the video is on a Yale safe >looks at his own safe he's had for years >they look the exact same *nervous laughter*
Funny thing about it is that Yale is owned by Assa Abloy, so they could have potentially chosen any of several much higher security cam locks from their parts bins for the backup, but they went the Harbor Freight Safe route instead.
@Martin Baldwin-Edwards I am saying sourcing a cam lock from the parts bin of Assa, Abloy, or probably Medeco wouldn't have been so hard for them, especially Medeco. But yeah the big corporate entity doesn't seem to care much about security except on commercial installations.
But, of course, they are just rebranding a generic safe mass produced in Asia, and getting them to fit one of their secure lock would increase the price to something above practically nothing. The problem here is that the alarm should sound as soon as someone touches the backup cylinder - but that would involve including a half-cent sensor, which is far to much to add to the cost.
Most lock smiths just drill and cut. They do very little picking. There are several of them on here and every encounter I have ever had with a locksmith or people who have directly talked about it simply say they drilled or cut. Even many many news stories talk about companies that could just pick the door in 30 seconds drilled it because its about upselling and upselling a new lock is far better than wasting a service call and charging for 1 min of work. They will upsell you a 250 dollars lock because that is all I have on had at the moment. Yet I could not be bothered to go and buy a bunch of standard locks that the majority of people use. The same with car locks you will find a lot of people who attempt to bump your door lock rather than use a lichi tool. Which can be quite pricey when it comes down to owing every one they sell and knowing which models they fit.
Nice to see project farm give you a mention on his wheel lock test and review. Got my covert instruments padlock shim kit, thanks. Your customer service is fantastic. Even if my local post office sucks and send it back. Your people are great! Love your channel. Great new hobby
I feel like at this point the most secure thing would be to get an Indiana Jones style warehouse, fill it with boxes of random junk, and put a box with my stuff in there
I recently got a new 24” Samsonite Luggage. It comes with a TSA lock built into it. LPL has already shown how easy it is to defeat the TSA lock with either a cheap TSA key online or with a wave rake. However this luggage is even worse as it has a 3 digit combination lock. Not only is 3 digits a weak combination that can easily be guessed. It gets even worse. I figured out how to decode it without any tools just as fast as if I had the code. I found that when locked and firmly pressing in the open button while simultaneously moving the code wheels. The correct numbers will have a noticeable click, while the non correct numbers would just glide by. It’s obviously not a security lock only prevents luggage from opening during flight.
I've seen you use the impressioning tool you've used in this video multiple times now and i'm curious as to how and why it works. I understand picking pin tumblers and wafers already but these tubular locks still confuse me. Have you shown us how tubular locks function and how this impressioning tool bypasses them in detail yet?
Think of the pins in normal locks just in a circle. That is what the key is like. Instead of s straight line they are in a circle and pressing down pushed the pins in the right order. I think. I am just using logic. Though a video would be super cool about it!
@@kameljoe21Right distance, order doesn't matter. There's a notch in the key to turn the core, tool contains picks for each pin that get left in the correct depths after picking.
I’d like to see you use tools that thieves would actually have. These specialty tools are crafty and make your picking a snap, but how often are they going to have these highly custom tools
I want to watch LPL do something I call the turlocken challenge. The idea is to take a small item (perhaps just a marble), and lock it in a small container, lock that container in something, that one in something else, and so on until you have it all in a big safe; for preference, each layer should use a lock requiring a different technique to get into. The challenge is to see how quickly LPL can get through all the layers of protectiong to reclaim the marble, without using the keys/codes (obviously). Bonus points for each layer using a bypass of some kind rather than straight-up picking, and an extra bonus if exactly one layer is bypassed destructively.
You could hack the alarm and add a photocell to the tubular lock hole so when the backup cover is removed it goes off and it would be greatly improved.
Yale is putting out lousy products anymore. This one worked perfectly, LPL bought it. Like a vending machine that doesn't dispense the product but keeps your money, same kind of thing
I think he just buys (or sometimes is gifted) everything he can find with a lock on it. I don't think he was actually "duped" into buying it as if he was going to use it, only to find out it's junk, he bought it probably KNOWING it was junk so he could make this video with it.
@@ADoseofBuckley I didn't mean to suggest LPL was duped, I said he bought it. He reviews security devices. My original comment stands. The device functioned perfectly. Mission accomplished
Put a brick and a electronic tracker in this and lay it on bedroom closet floor. Perfect decoy. Then hide your cash and jewels in a fake AC return in a wall in hallway.
It's easy, but time-consuming. It's easier than picking a normal lock, because you can see exactly where the pins are to pick them, and you don't need a hook or a rake, you just need something that can press them down. It's time-consuming because there's usually seven pins (as opposed to four-six for a normal lock), and each pick only rotates it one-eighth of a turn, so you normally have to pick it at least twice. The impressioning tool speeds up the process, and it also allows you (if you're so inclined) to make yourself a key for the lock so you can come back and access it whenever you want.
it would be nice to have a dummy safe like this that just always sets off an ear shattering alarm. something that would cause permanent hearing damage if you stayed in the room with it without ear protection. that way, if a thief opened the safe they would not only alert anyone near by, they would brown their pants and also not get anything (the safe would always be empty). i have seen similar "trap" safes where it fires an empty shotgun shell to scare the opener. you can get specially made blank shells that not only don't have a projectile, but don't have enough powder to fire a projectile or cause damage (they just make an ear splitting bang)
If you have access to the back of the safe, there are holes for wall mounting. You can simply stick a long screwdriver through one of the holes and press the reset switch inside which changes the code back to default(probably 0000 or 1234).
This just reminded me of my uncle who had this Giant Safe that weighed tons, he would take his money put a rubber band around it and throw it behind the safe. I said what gives, he said let them spend time breaking into the safe to find Nothing. LMFIAO
As I've stated, what seems like thousands of times on the LPL's videos, it's impossible to be completely safe. The best any of us can hope for or achieve, is to make ourselves much harder targets than our neighbors. If you who are watching this don't have at least one dog then when you get up tomorrow, at the top of your list should be to get one, as long as you realize that owning one is a very real commitment. Dogs are living, breathing fantastic companions who will always give you far more than they take. This simple action puts you on the "I think we should move on to the next house" list of most burglars. Obviously there are many more measures you can and should take but, getting a canine (by this I mean a bigger sized dog with a deep bark or perhaps even better, growl) is one of the easiest and I would say mandatory actions to take. P.S.-- With regard to this specific lock/secure box I have a very similar one in a wall in my home with one added feature. After putting in place I subsequently moved a gigantic bedroom furniture set into our master bedroom and an almost permanent chunk of it sits right in front of it. So hey, all you burglars out there, you're all quite welcome to come over and give it a try. Take note however, that I've also put multiple other levels of security in place.
I owned this exact model of safe. The locking mechanism broke and would not disengage. So in that regard, it was extremely effective at keeping people out... myself included.
I purchased a non-alarmed version from this product range a while back, predominantly because you hadn't featured it on your channel. Now I have to throw it away and start another Safe Search 😭
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