Round doorknobs would be quite effective countermeasure for this kind of device. Upd: thanks to everyone for response guys, i learned a few new things from you. Building regulations are not that strong in my country, so round doorknobs are still very common.
Doorknobs are not permitted, I believe, per fire code in buildings since anyone has to be able to open the door in the case of an emergency. For example if you don't have hands or are not able to grip properly for whatever reason.
I’ve watched this several times and Noticed he gets smacked in the head every time, so eventually after a 100 or so times you will forget this technique.
As a locksmith I went to a class on high security access control locks the instructor had not seen the tool before and I showed him how it worked and he was amazed . I thought it was hilarious 😅
Eric Scheid Outswing Door’s typically have NRP hinges. Non removable pins. Also, make sure they are stainless steel hinges and it makes them harder to cut.
These handles were on the residence rooms in my dorm, back in the day. Students figured out they could use coat hangers to open the doors. "Hardening" ended up just being us students who were concerned taking our door handles off, rotating them so they were vertical with the handle hanging downwards in the neutral position, and it left little for the attacker to get hold of with a wire like this.
Genius, except door handles are locked in the horizontal position with a return spring on the FIXED vertical facia door plate, and can only be turned 90 degrees clockwise to open, but in the handles horizontal position, there is no way to turn the handle anticlockwise because there is a locking security tab to stop the handle being turned further than the horizontal. I could only assume that the handles were broken.
I was wondering why Deviant was staring so intently at me in utter silence at the start of the video. But it was just because my speakers were turned off.
LOL. i had just gotten off a conference call, removed my headset but still had audio coming through it. Took me a few seconds before I realized my mistake!
I made a makeshift version of this tool, and was able to get into my room without paying a lockout fee - dorm in college. It worked great. Thanks for the amazing video!
@@ImYahndi In what way is that hard to believe, you can make something like this out of coat hangers. Won't be as elegant and will probably take a bit longer to find the handle, but once its hooked it's about as easy a backup entry method as it gets. You could make one yourself if you have the hangers, just need a door like in a dorm to use it on
@@ImYahndi lol it's honestly harder to believe he didn't than he did considering it's not much of a story to make up, but I love how there's always "nothing ever happens" folks online, they betray their lack of imagination
I got locked out of my dorm room once. But the outside of the dorm was easy to climb and window was open. Later, a friend in the dorm got locked out of their room and asked for help. I let them in the same way. Dorm staff told me stop climbing the building for safety reasons. I think that they were probably just a little embarrassed about the poor security. I only used it for white hat reasons so I avoided any real trouble.
*hiding behind security door* "I think we're safe in here, the door is locked. They can't get to us in here." muffled voice: "This is the lockpicking lawyer, and today we are going to be using a classic under-the-door-style tool."
i seem to have watched most of his talks in the passed day since i learned about him yesterday on this channel. The "I don't normally red team" and the elevator talks are my favorites.
When I was at the University of Waterloo in the late 1970s, we called these devices "Bishop's Hooks", and we used them to get into the underground tunnels. The administration responded by welding cans around the door handles so we couldn't reach them.
@@nezu_cc the point is that almost no doors will have hooked handles, so this attack is as practical as an attack against triangular doors that open upwards
In one of the barracks buildings I was in, I found that just leaning back onto the door with moderate pressure and a solid enough swift one with the heel of the boot worked in a pinch.
Bruh you beat me to it. Did this all the time in the army. We had a long ass bent coat hanger in case someone got locked out or the door batteries died.
I love when people have "high security locks" and they get locked out so I just pop open a ceiling tile and open the door from above! their reaction is priceless, they spent thousands of dollars on their door locks and I can open them with a broom from above the ceiling. also beside the door is typically drywall which is not very strong either
@@mattlogue1300 I can cut a door opening in under a minute with a battery powered rotozip. Use the right tools and it's fast and easy to make large opening in drywall
Sometimes covert entry is important if you want to conceal the fact that anyone entered, so Juggernaut smashing your way through walls usually isn't the best answer. Fair point about the ceiling though! Tons of offices have this vulnerability, since drop ceilings are everywhere.
I always find it funny how much people rely on locks. A lock is there to keep honest people honest and make common gutter trash thieves pass up that locked whatever for an easier mark. The only true security is a layered defense of multiple differing things. A mix of alarms, locks, cameras, guards (some apartments have a guard(s) now), multiple ways to secure valuables (safes, locked drawers, document boxes and so on) serial coded items ect. The goal is not to theif proof your whatever. Its to make it such a pain in the ass to steal from you they pass you up for an easier mark. Granted this can backfire and attract a much higher grade of theif. Afterall if you have a ton of security you likely also have a lot of valuable stuff in their eyes. So you also need to keep a lot of it low key enough to not scream "Valuables here!" but more "not worth my time".
@@arcticfox5118 yeah one of my favorite examples of this is at my local Lowe’s the button to call for an employee to unlock the spray paint cage is broken but the gaps in the bars are so big I can just reach through and get what I want and proceed to checkout. And on the topic of your comment, sometimes the best defense is an ADT protection sign in the front yard, most thrives won’t mess with wireless alarm systems
Hard barrier sweeps or caps at the bottom won't help against this tool if there's carpet (like in most hotels) - you can still easily press the tool under the door. Source: I was a hotel manager on the night shift for 10 years and unlocked 5 to 10 doors a week, every week, for guests who had someone passed out inside the room with the deadbolt latched (usually drunk). For those that might wonder how pulling the handle releases the deadbolt, in hotels (at least the ones I worked with) the deadbolt is linked to the handle being opened. It's a safety thing, so that if there's a fire or some emergency and the guest needs to evacuate the room quickly, they only have to turn the handle - no fumbling with a lock that they are unfamiliar with.
Yeah. When I was in college I made a similar device out of coat hangar wire and string. I used it when I accidentally would lock myself out of my dorm. I got good enough to work around hanging towels. It was a nifty, yet crude tool. But it got the job done.
"That was way to fast!" -LPL. Yet when he picks master locks, I'm saying the same thing! "That was way to fast!" 😂 In fact, come to think of it, that is the same thing my ex-wife used to say to me!
Jollyroger Hobbies it's too, not to you moron. Are you so stupid that you messed up a single word? You didn't proof read every single word and letter? How can you be so stupid? Nobody can make a mistake, ever! Don't you know that? Jollyroger Hobbies, you are so worthless, you shouldn't even be breathing for such a dumb mistake! From now on you must be PERFECT, ALWAYS! Idiot!
locks are more for insurances and the police so that there are signs of burglary. Also if a thief has to spent more time or noise to break in a burglary could be prevented or be found easier. So it makes sense.
@@prydzen if you get robbed and your door was not locked the cops do not even file a case!! it dumb i say if someone took somthing that not theirs its robbery
Door knobs have been outlawed !! ALL public buildings must comply to disability laws These handle style must open door with both upper and downward movement with very light tension
@UCEVrYZbHv0vE0gKeQZSikiQ this door is most likely locked most doors in the us can be opened on the secure side even if locked also even if the under/over attack didnt work they could remove the hinge pins or slip the latch
Yes one tip I have seen for doors with an internal pedestrian detection device is to shine an infra red light on it and the door will open as if there is a person coming out.
@@Irisphotojournal rub vaseline on the neck of the knob (that sounds wrong) and you'll never get grip, and who completely grabs a doorknob anyway, usually it's gripped by the profile of the knob, so you can do this and not worry about getting vaseline on your hands every time you use the door
@@J__C__ He takes the name from Old Celtic. When Anglicized the word sounds like "Ollav" or "Olaf". It's sort of a title, a means of describing a person's knowledge and/or accomplishment. An ollam was a person that was a master of their trade or skill, or an expert in a certain field of study (Professor, or other academic). Someone that was the highest rank in their respective group or trade.
Back when I was a locksmith, this was one of my favorite tools. We always called it “Big Al”. I don’t really know why it earned that name, though. It was always funny to see people’s faces when we’d get called out to open someone’s inside office when they’d locked their keys inside. I’d open the door in about 10 seconds, just like the video, and their jaw would hit the floor. 🤪
Im a house burgalry and you have No idea how much help ive got from your videos i thank you and so does my customers. Um err i mean those i break into to help save them from their goods and objects. Best of wishes a Swedish House burgalry living in Texas ☺️
My favorite part is at 1:02 when he opens the door so quickly, the door knob bonks him square on his head.🤕 The reverse shot at 1:16 is a whole other take. 👍
I use a tool just like this at work (with a ragged ol piece of 550 cord attached) to open dozens of offices each month. We call it the fishing pole. Our locksmith calls it a K22 tool. It really does work as easily as shown here for the vast amount of lever office doors in the 200+ buildings in which I service. Great vid!
My wife was visiting the US from England recently, and about 2am she heard a noise outside her hotel room. She got up and walked to the door to see this tool being used to try and open the door. Thankfully she had the chain lock across the door, but she made a noise and the guy ran off. She called security and they didn't believe her. She called me (early in our morning) in a state of shock. Once I got her calmed down, and spoke to security, they reviewed the CCTV tapes and saw the guy. He had tailgated someone into the hotel, and reception were too busy on Facebook or something, so he slipped right past. He picked a random door and tried to get in. In the UK at least, almost every hotel needs a key card to be able to use the elevator, and so access to corridors is quite hard if you aren't a resident. They called the Police but there was nothing they could do. Needless to say she is now pretty scared every time she stays in a hotel by herself. Just thought I'd share that with you. Keep up the good work LPL.
@@journeyfortwo5211 round handles require firm purchase and twist to open which could be bad in a fire or even if you were attacked and your hands are covered in blood or sweat or something or even people with arthritis or hand disfigurements so lever style handles eliminates all of that
Cold climate makes these types of attack (both top and bottom) totally impossible. The doors have to have proper heat isolation and now I know that there is an added bonus.
@@jameshealy4594 Something like this: tolkostroyka.ru/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Установка-дверной-коробки-своими-руками-2.jpg Note how the door and the frame form a complex "path".
@@AndrewFomin Or something like this: www.aluminium-haustueren-direkt.de/wp-content/uploads/aluhaustueren_sicherheit_RC2_RC3.jpg (but that pic is weird, they have the outside handle on the inside...) Found a better one: www.fensterbau-koppenhoefer.de/index_htm_files/4633@2x.jpg
@Dino Sauro oh, you're so mature and cool! Nah, just kidding, that kind of attention-seeking behaviour you have lets me know you have issues. Good luck dealing with them boy.
This guy looks like those raptors in Jurassic Park movie. Hero: "Are you sure the raptors are secured" Heroine: "Yes, unless they figure out how to open doors"
Sounds like you're in the Air Force, been there done that. Best time of my life! Travel as much as you can and enjoy the brotherhood. Thx for your service!
Figured this out with a coat hanger in 2002 when my dad locked the computer room. Those sounds of it riding the inside of the door before getting the handle brings back memories.
1:18 - simply remove the "hook" end at the end of the door handle, and shorten the door handle to just long enough to fit your hand. A loop over it will slip right off.
On commercial doors the hook is required - it prevents someone getting impaled on the handle is there's a rush of people going through (which actually happened in my high school, btw)
This is the same concept as what we called “cat’s eye” unlocking where you poke a tool thru the peephole. That’s why our locks can’t be open with just a handle pull but a button must be pressed as well to unlock
After reading some of the comments on this video, and the top door video, I wonder if it would be useful to have a short explanation of how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and certain fire codes influence door design. It seems quite a few people don't understand why door knobs aren't a thing anymore outside of housing, why you can't just "lock the door from both sides," and why having doors that move freely and loosely are prevalent.
Yep, that would be great! Or why he did not mention using a different door handle as protection. We (here in Eastern Europe) usually have straight ones on which these two penetration methods would not have worked, AFAIK.
@@imzoltan My guess is that Ollam's main focus is on helping to harden existing buildings, in which case just slapping on shrouds and gap plates is more cost effective than ripping out an entire building's worth of door fixtures.
@@ScibyTravels pretty much, you need a pretty functional hand to open a knob. even the loss of a thumb can make a normal door knob pretty difficult to use. the ADA pretty much requires you to use a push bar or lever handle because you dont need a fully functional body to operate either of those. Fire codes require that all doors in public spaces unlock automatically from the inside so that nobody gets trapped in a burning building by a door that is locked. there have been cases where locked doors have led to significant loss of life in building fires, the protection of your property is secondary to preventing loss of life. i believe that the lever working in both directions is also a fire code thing, to facilitate rapid exit in a panic, but that may be an ADA thing too.
@@ScibyTravels The act mandates a lot of things, from door placement, to how much force needs to be applied to open it, to the opening mechanism. I don't believe it specifically bans knobs (It doesn't mandate levers), but it does say that doors have to be operable to people who have grip issues, whether that be because they have severe arthritis, or simply don't have hands at all. The easy way to meet this requirement is lever action doors, which pretty much anyone can use.
Earlier this year I walked out of the house and closed the door as I had a visitor and I had yet put my keys in my pocket after changing clothes. After locating a piece of wire in the yard, I was surprised how easy it was to trip the latch on the door knob to get back in the house. Long story short, I modified the door knob to always lock after taking off for a trip and almost 200 miles away wondered if I had locked the door. Nearest friend able to check the door was 45 minutes away and that prompted the auto lock feature after taking flack over the round trip. The door also got modified to eliminate the easier ways of gaining entry without just kicking in the door instead. **One other note for those who are looking at door security, check the length of the screws in your door hinges and the striker plate as most are installed with what was provided with the door frame assembly. You will be surprised that they likely are only at best 2" long and not screwed into the stud behind the frame. Changing out the screws to 3"+ going directly into the stud strengthens the door assembly from a swift kick. Add a door reinforcement kit to strengthen the frame with provided plates, kicked in doors are less of a problem. Just my two cents for those who are looking to increase their safety in their home.
In environments where sound proofing is desired, a drop down seal from the door can be triggered as the door closes. If there is a floor plate with even the smallest lip that works in conjunction with this, you can negate this kind of attack.
At least in British Columbia you can’t install door KNOBS has to be levers like these, because people with hand issue struggle with knobs. Well LPL just added to the discussion.
@@gabeonwheels4026 actually he's pretty easy to track down. He runs a physical penetration testing (or pen testing for short) group that actively tests the security of various businesses and organisations. Plus he often does presentations at security conferences.
"This is the lock picking lawyer and today I'll show you how to quickly and easily open a jail door, I'll be demonstrating the least destructive method on this door at my local jail"
I would really love to see more european doors, locks and everything on your channel. Not saying it is better, but some things seems to be soooooo stupid. :D Direct edit: many of these tools won't work in central europ, but I would be very happy to see you doing things to "our" things. :) (edit:but I)
Yeah, I saw this and thought - this is dumb, why is the door not locked? And if it's not locked, why not just pull the outside handle? Our doors here can't be opened by pulling the handle if locked, and this would not work at all.
DRSNova imagine a hotel door, now...to get in you use the key(card) and the handle works, when leaving from the inside you just pull down the handle...but from the outside without a key(card)...the handle just dips up/down...sometimes the inside handle is connected and that’s why this is possible on a locked door... Quite possible to avoid, but still common
@@BankruptGreek That's an improvement and clever ! Been a few years since I stayed in a hotel last, but will keep an eye out next time and see if it works the same now/here !
@@d-rockanomaly9243 yep but handles don't have to have the hook on the end :) I live in a new construction building in a major US that was completed in the last 5 years and is definitely up to code and has handles without a hook at the end
@@EoRdE6 There are some building codes that require the handle to return to within a certain distance of the door on fire doors in public buildings, apparently to reduce the risk of someone impaling themselves on the handle. Not 100% sure of the jurisdictions though, and presumably not relevant to private homes.
You could also use the device I use to keep my puppy from opening doors she shouldn't. I call it...the knob XD. (I am well aware of the potential drawbacks of this method in some circumstances, I just found it funny it wasn't mentioned).
I admire LPL's work, since a very very long time, especially the passion and time that he has for it. But you have to admit that this whole channel is the representation of one of USA's biggest issue. There are so many countries where we don't even lock our car knowing that nobody would ever try to open it. Here we learn about how to secure our doors and guns against the weirdest attempts to bypass the securities.
round door knobs aren't against code for safety reasons, its for access for disabled folks. imagine an amputee trying to use a round door knob, hell even arthritis can make round door knobs useless. its not about safety, its about ensuring that any member of the public can use a public door.
Nothing is secure when unattended. If you have armed guards 24/7 and they're well trained, and there's enough of them, and they don't come under attack by like, some govt entity who'll always have more and eventually better armed guys than you can afford. Then your valuables will likely be secure in almost any conceivable situation. If you find yourself in the situation where the Police/Feds/Military is coming, then you've probably got bigger problems anyway. Lol.
I lived in a student corridor once. It was not uncommon people looked themselves out of their room. The easy solution that everyone knew was to of course just remove the hinges, as they were on the outside.
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