"Now this lock has a particularly unique 10 pin design that requires an S-shaped, tapered key and the US nuclear launch codes. If you do wanna see how to open this lock up, you can see that in video number 8."
At one point, somebody’s gonna develop an app where you take a picture of a lock and it redirects you to the corresponding lock picking lawyer video...
I think it's funny how people worry about this stuff too much. Remember, LPL is a master hobbyest and will likely be able to pick anything. Especially since he has the tools, and can make special tools when he needs to. The majority of people who will steal from the common man usually don't carry the special tool to pick certain locks. So unless you have something big and expensive to protect that is well known, I think that the best lock to choose is any lock that requires a special tool, especially one that is uncommon, because they are unlikely to carry that tool.
More than four years after this video I wonder: Did you try to pick the unpicked locks again? Would be interesting if they can withstand the additional experience (and maybe different tools?).
My school uses that type of Best lock. Honestly I think it's the whole school system, so great job CCPS for choosing a lock that LockPickingLawyer can't open without a key.
You could easily store an index card with each lock documenting which videos it was used in, an excel spreadsheet, or if you are a leet hacker you could just use the channel search function on the youtube channel index page, but anyone could do that.
Anyone know if there was a follow-up video on these locks after his skills improved over the years? Just wondering if he managed to pick these eventually.
Lol how about that cisa but the bitting is a 717171 with torpedo key pins and Xmas top pins and added matched counter milling in the plug,now that would be evil
hah, nice. my lock is among these ones. good to know that extremely few will be able to pick my house and garage locks and will instead bust a window if they want to get hold of my whatever valuables they can find. not much worth stealing in my house tho.
@@ch33se60 haha yeah, I was surprised too. So that's why I think if the Lock Picking Lawyer can't pick it, it must be a darn secure lock! Looks like he can pretty much pick other locks in his sleep! I reckon he'll walk into a room and when he sneezes, locks just give up and open themselves out of fear.
But i'll come melt/explode the lock 🤣(edit: btw to those who havent realized yet, this reply is a joke. Thx for not taking everything with a toxic attitude (AHEM Nick 🙃❤)
None of these would be either tho... anyone who wanted to get in could watch this guys tutorials and have a sure fire way to pick any of these locks this guy just makes it impossible to have security because hes making advanced lock picking public knowledge
@@maisielb1517 Or showing manufacturers how not to make locks so they can improve their designs, making it public knowledge increases public awareness to watch out for bad locks
@@vlayers theyre pretty much all "bad locks" as demonstrated by this channel if someone wants to really get into something with the right tools they can and will, locks are essentially to detur would be theifs by making it harder and more inconvinent to achieve their goal in most cases if someone tries to open something and its locked theyl try to find something unlocked before trying to take the locked item, however as i said earlier these videos make it much easier for a criminal to learn to pick all types of locks from house doors to trailer locks to bike and shed locks this then means the whole act of locking something up becomes laughable to those who would have previously moved on to find an item easier to steal as they can readily access the info needed at any time, if he wanted to do this purely for manufacturer benefit and progression he should send his findings directly to them instead of making "how to:" guides on picking them all and instead make public lists of the safer and also the more easily bypassed locks hes discovered but not HOW TO ACTUALLY PICK THEM
Would love to see a 2022 version of this, also interested to see if you have managed to pick any of the ones you said you couldn't as your skill got better.
@@purplefood1 And, thanks again. Interesting sites like these appreciate commentary, and check the comments stats; along with the rest. As mentioned, watching a true "Master" provides me with some well needed humility; I'm just that arrogant. Certainly not withstanding confirmation from one of your Tube sites, no content and 9 bored subscribers; along with these replies to you as proof of my "need." :)
Its specifically a review of the Keyways, not the Whole lock. It may have the nastiest keyway, but the bitting on the lock, and the pins security, are Less impressive.
the only youtuber i've seen that numbers his videos, that's quite cool actually [EDIT] OK I GET IT THERE ARE A LOT OF RU-vidRS WHO NUMBER THEIR VIDEOS. But i sad "the only youtuber I'VE SEEN"
I dont think he needs to make locks any easier, im sure that he could pick every lock in the pentagon with the flick of his foreskin, even if he was circumsized
No lmao, the average locked front door on any given home is so easy to pick for a "master" locksmith that it can be done in under 10 seconds, I've undone multiple doors in less than 10 seconds, it just depends on how you pick locks and if you stumble into one that feels just right, yet sometimes the simplest of things can trick the greatest of professionals...
"now this key requires a fingerprint file from pentagon, they key to the gate of heaven and blood from an albino virgin sacrificed to satan to open. If you want to see me pick it, watch video 145"
The lock after the "Metal" is not a GEGE that's why nobody was able to identify the model. It's the "markenschutz" (i.e. trademarked, not patented, key profile) from WILKA in Germany. If you tilt your head 90° to the left with the profile upside down like in your video, you might be able to see that it spells WILKA. I don't know the exact model though as yours is different from mine but at least you know where to search now.
You know you're killing it when your content is already so incredibly (and unintentionally) hilarious that you can't even find a sex joke in the comments of a video named "The Top Ten Nastiest Keyways (In My Collection)". Bravo Sir!
Survivor locks, ie not yet picked: 4:55 CAM lock model EVA GPI 6:10 (a modified?) Lockwook Australia 7:07 core WB BEST 7:50 ASSA ABLOY Ruko series 1200 Thank you LockPickingLawyer and please keep uploading.
The Lockwood at #3 is a Lockwood MLA, not just Lockwood - that's kind of an important distinction. Side note: I grew up with those keys - we had keys that would open the house and the garage, keys that would open the garage but not the house, and I don't know the details beyond that. Oh and the keys were somewhat uncopyable - they used six-segment keys instead of the usual 5 (iirc), plus they had "Do Not Copy" so reputable locksmiths wouldn't touch them. Was about to say I didn't know how hard they'd be to pick, but hey I guess I just found out.
LMAA R3dShift Keys are for when you are not there. Once you are inside your own house, a basic bolt can barricade the doors no problem, and family members can just ask to be let in. If you are not there, you can't physically defend the place.
"Very intimidating key-way" Can I buy a home-defense key-way so I can scare the robbers with it, maybe put a sign in the front saying "BEWARE OF KEY-WAY"
@@blueninety It would be amazing, though, if you came home one day and found a note; "Greetings, sir - I am the most renowned cat burglar in the land and I was about to pick your front door lock, but...your keyway! It's is so amazing! I could never pick such a work of art! This keyway has saved your valuables this day, and I tremble in fear at its exquisite design!"
The crazy part about these keyways is that, yeah 90 degree turns in the keyway makes it so much harder to pick, but.. once you have a machine that can make keyways of that kind I can't fathom it being more expensive to produce them. So all the godawful locks that takes 2 seconds to rake could go from useless to impossible for anyone but a professional, just by adding a kink in the keyway, haha
Some of the high security locks out there, are not available to individuals. And can only be purchase second handed, often without the keys. And as a security "feature" the key blanks are restricted and difficult or even illegal to obtain.
Josuel did say that it's the key blanks that are illegal to obtain, not the keys themselves. I'm not sure myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if what he said was true. It's something I'd have to look into. If true, it's likely a means to prevent people from obtaining blanks that can be made into bump keys. That's not to say I agree with any blank key prohibitions, but that would likely be the reasoning for such laws.
That reminds me of king Henry VIII. Towards the end of his life he was so paranoid that someone would try to kill him in his sleep that he had people brick his room up every night and remove it in the morning!
......A gentle breathing outside your door, the clock is around 1000am..The muffled sound of gauntlets being put on. Silence, then a sound of something metallic being attached to the outside metal plate, and the flick of the start-up switch on a portable plasma cutter...Then that voice saying... soft and well modulated ".....This is the LockPickingLawyer, this morning I have something really special for you, in this video number 922 I will show you how I pick this welded security door with this handy plasma cutter from....."
I've never been into picking locks but have always loved solving puzzles. Your videos opened my eyes to the world of solving " lock " puzzles. Awesome content and informative.
I had to open a locked door for a customer yesterday which had Euro-style cylinders & 3-point locking bolts. I couldn't pick it with my hand picks so I used my rotary pick (aka drill bits).
@Virtual Rooster Most quality keyway shapes are patented and/or trademarked to limit who can get key blanks for copying keys or making bump keys. The patent method suffers from the 20 years or less they last before companies etc. need to change all locks and keys to one that isn't available at every low morality key cutting shop. This is why many are now going for the trademark protection, which can be cheaply extended almost forever.
Also, if the lock company wsnts to guarantee that all locks have different keys, they have to make a new shape that won't fit before running out of combinations. If they offer master keying, they also need to skip thousands of combinations and invent keyways that will fit two or more key shapes.
5:23 Maybe that lock is a good candidate for a live stream one day. Just you, your tool belt and one rule: don't stop streaming until it's open, one way or another.
AmberAmbitions There was a Hardy Boys book about a house designed by a locksmith, so none of the keyways were ever obvious. I forgot the title of the particular book.
If he can't pick it open, you can pick it up, we know you wanna buy it. Everyone is hoarding tissue paper. I'm waiting to get my hands on some *nasty locks*
Video trick. If you want to light the inside of a lock like the Fradon. Put a piece of glass or plex between the camera and the subject, at a 45 degree angle. Point a light from the side so it reflects off the glass down into the lock. Then just put a black card (cloth is better) on the opposite side. A bug inside the lock looking out would see bright light, while the camera 'sees' a reflection of blackness, so it doesn't see the glass just down into the lock. I like these videos a lot. It's made me think differently about locks. I've learned so much from your videos, mostly out of pure curiosity. Thanks
Some things I really love about LPLs content: polite, calm, confident, easygoing demeanour; and the way you number your videos and then look shit up to reference every new vid. Especially for one like this where theres about 12 different videos mentioned. That's dedicated for ya
@M B - In the world of knot tying, the gold standard is Ashley's Book of Knots. Knot tying enthusiasts simply refer to a particular knot as ABOK # XYZ. So likewise, now we have LPL # ABC as a useful shorthand!
never in my life did i think I'd be subscribed to and addicted to watching the lock picking lawyer pick locks, insult them, or call them nasty every day. but, here i am.
How could someone not love this channel. Just exactly the content promised in the title and some more. Knowledgeble, skilled and humble streamer. Keep up sir
If a good keyway really frustrates picking, why isn't it the norn? I'm a complete layman, but it doesn't seem as though it should be more costly to manufacture. Is it to do with patents?
i think its because they keys are more complicated that way and that makes it more expensive. most locks dont need to be pickproof anyway its easier to cut the chain / smash the window etc already just being more than trivial to open usually does the job
I would say it’s due to the keys. When you want to get a copy of a key for somebody else, possibly a family member, you could always go to a local store and get a copy made with ease with plenty of different looking keys to choose from. These locks that have very different keyholes to the norm explain themselves why people don’t bother with them in the first place, which is just how different they are compared to what’s being used.
Yeah, what these guys said. The average burglar doesn't bother with picking much any more; standard house door barrels are 6-pin with a couple of mushroom pins or more, which is enough that it's a pain in the arse and not reliable under pressure. Much easier to figure out a workaround or brute force method (see Deviant Ollam's talk on Pen Testing for examples of that).
Hey cool, now I know that my childhood home had /really/ good locks - we had the Lockwood MLA system that's #3 here, though I don't think ours were bitted so sadistically. I do remember thinking it was basically magical though, how we had some keys that'd open the house and the garage, and other keys that'd open the garage but not the house. (Australian btw)
I seriously wonder why (in my perspective) you hold all locks upside down i live in the netherlands all cores are places with the pins having to be pushed downwards not up (in doors atleast) for me it's really weird seeing the back of the key being faced down Edit: just looked it up has to do with dirt sand and gunk getting into the lock and getting into the pins if they are faced down
In Spain it's the same D: At least in my house xd Edit: just read your edit, so in the US the locks are placed with the pins facing down and he just hold them and storage them like that to keep them working or they have their locks with the pins facing up?
I am a 32-year locksmith and work for a lock manufacturer in the U.S. and you are correct as to why our lock cylinders are installed with the pins extending from the top downward.
We have a lot of euro cylinders in the UK, but they nearly always have the pins facing down. I have noticed that in various places in Europe, a door key has to be inserted what would be 'upside down' to us
Hugh Alexander mortise cylinders are still typically pins up. Or in the case of our dimple Yale, I believe it’s pins sideways on both sides: which means the key inserts “like a normal key”, instead of being put in horizontally.
Thomas Sanladerer We pick the locks with the pins on the top (bible above the core) here in North America, it's how the vast majority of locks are installed, so for us it's easier to pick euro cylinders the same way.
In many European countries, the default mounting position is pins down. This makes it more difficult to feel if a pin is overset, because you can't just see if it drops or not; it stays down, held by gravity.
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