Keynote - LockPickingLawyer 

The best kind, opening the minds of the audience to fallings of an industry

Besides opening minds, I believe one of the live demos also has at least one lock is unable to open with the tool that is being used.

He had to demonstrate that it wasn’t a fluke

He is opening the lock to the future, the hardest one to pick, the one in which we have to forget the past and advance into better ways that will benefit us all.

@@dragen3 Had he just brought the tool Bosnian Bill and I made ....

And being disappointed when it ended. Cheers.

I haven't had a thought shorter than 15 minutes in my life. I had a colleague I worked with about some 20 years ago. He'd ask me some technical question. Then and I would go on for 3 or 4 hours. He'd stopped me right there. He'd say "Dammit Jerry, please! When I asked ya what time it is, don't build me a f@k$¥€g clock!!"

We know LPL, most people don't

He was trying to unlock people's minds.. they take a bit longer than master locks

how did they do that?

@@iTube2772 By not showing his face?

Did the participants get to see his face or not?

@@Musicman9492 i mean technically how did they do it? what did the audience see and where was LPL at that time?

@@iTube2772 Based on what he said at the beginning, he was there in person. Audience saw him like normal, that's why he asked them not to take pictures. He wasn't too worried about security community knowing how he looks, he just didn't want his pictures on the internet for crazies to see

the moment I realized he won't show his face I was off.. come on that's why we were all here. He's not a lawyer anymore and there were probably enough people around such that he's now anyways not anonymous anymore.

@@RandomUser2401 I don't remember that being why I first watched this video. It's been a year, though, so I'm not entirely sure.

@@RandomUser2401 If you listened just a little bit longer, you'd have heard LPL's reasoning for having a no-camera rule.

@@FuzedBox yeah I have. And the evil people have clearly already figured out what he looks like. This achieves nothing.

@@RandomUser2401 Can't argue with that; it's the principles of the people involved which struck me as honorable. In truth it's a bit hypocritical of LPL because concealing his face leads to both the Streissand Effect and it utilizes Security Through Obscurity, which he preaches against. Just look to Administrative Results to see how that method works out with high subscriber counts. I still think LPL and the audience were honorable and respectful; that should be the standard, but it isn't.

That lock would have been opened. It was the tool that failed.

@@phenixslayer21 makes sense, he did say it was his cheapest version of that tool iirc

To be fair, it WAS his wife's beaver and I think it didn't enjoy public humiliation that much.

@@phenixslayer21 yes, hence why he said he would then move on to another method. The lock can be defeated, but the tool wasn't the most effective for the job in this case. Hence why no locksmith just carries one tool when they go to open a lock. They will have a whole inventory of tooling and many methods.

Can open the toughest locks, but defeated by a gumball machine. There's a moral in there.

But it is a very valid point. To the uninitiated, 2 mins is far more palatable than 20

But we're long time fans, it's not our first time we see his vids on our recommended.

@@TheFeldhamster Oh, I agree. I loved it But for example, I suggested someone else watch it and all they heard is 50 mins and said hell no

But ... it *feels* like a 3 minute video. Ended way too soon!

As a fan of LBL I was a little put off by how long this video is but I clicked and it flew by. Always interesting.

10 speeches and 10 hours later: so as you can see it was not a fluke

Best way to know you’re a public speaker

Got a false set on that speech a little counter rotation

Or Shooting the Victim... ;-)

The messenger gets shot in digital security now and then too, but morons who need to lose their jobs, granted.

I think the two industries have two totally different ethos, LPL already mentioned a bunch of that of course. I feel like computer security and software dev having so much origin in the academic and hacking(of both hat colors) worlds, that sharing hacks and security holes was just par the course of the culture and the nature of the industry when you consider beta testing and QA teams exist to have software tossed them and get told to break it and write down how they broke it. That said small number exceptions exist, I think some lock companies usually younger ones have sent LPL locks. Hes torn them a new keyhole and their response was to redesign and eliminate their error.

Sadly, here in Germany, they have the same approach for digital security.

There's 2 other reasons that he didn't mention, though. 1. When breaking or picking a physical lock, you need to be on site. Physical locks just aren't attacked by millions of hackers and their script kiddy brothers from around the world 24/7 like servers on the internet. 2. Most locks, esp for bike and padlocks, just get broken instead of picked. So, my guess is that these companies leave those vulnerabilities in because it doesn't matter anyway. You hear of cellar break ins all the time, but they always snip off the padlocks with massive tools, they don't bother with trying to comb or pick them.

I was surprised weirdos are trying to track him back to his house. I would guess it was angry lock companies looking to pay him a visit.

🤣 I was thinking the same!!

Actually, if you came here when it just came up the video had a moment with a clear reflection of LPL. It was quickly covered up.

@@Praisethesunson Or just a teenager hacker that wants to be better than him on the security game. But we will never know, better be safe than sorry.

The most famous pair of hands in the west.

Was kind of strange to hear him laugh like that, and it probably feels so weird because we never hear him laugh in his videos.

On the other hand, his videos often feature well-timed humour, and this presentation kinda confirms that the author is a jolly fellow with a good sense of that very humour

Master lock is #1 professional's choice. Remember that

Timestamp?

It’s so cute

I was thinking the same! His laugh is pretty hilarious!

I could do without the adolescent Beavis & Butthead type sex jokes though. I can guess why he didn't get a lot of dates in college.

With the exception of the 3-5 minute videos in which he picks about a hundred locks

In fairness, those locks are either ones he's very familiar with (American 1100), or utter shite (master lock #3)

@@timothymonk1356 or the ones where he spends 90% of the vid explaining how he got the lock

Right? The Masterlock vid that was 5 minutes was all about the good cores in the plastic cases for lock out tag out while the terrible cores are in the consumer products. I had such high hopes but learned something else.

Me: Finnally a lock that takes 5 minutes! LPL: let me show you 5 ways to open this lock.....

could be the manufacturers of locks he has dissed... lol

@@jasonbender2459 that was my immediate thought as well, ive seen people being bugged/tracked/houses burned down for doing stuff that endangers less potential profit, i'm sure atleast one massive conglomerate has their sights on him

@@rrai1999 good point!

​@@rrai1999friendlyjordies suffered that for opposing the gambling industry in Australia

If Master Lock can"t be arsed to correct the flagged, and basic, issues, I'm pretty sure they're not competent to silence their main critic. 😅 I actually believe they are just filling the mass market role whilst providing easy access to "most" (I never said "services") people who know better: LPL has always been a proponent of the 'image/fallacy of security' issue but it seems like it is based on more than just the economics of any lock company. Real locks aren't hard and they are available. For decent prices. Help the people you care about by sorting their locks. 👍

Oooooh, i am ENVIOUS! Good for you tho :D

@@reyrey5742 How did they prevent anyone from getting a picture?

@@mintymus ehhhm, i guess you have to ask @mavrc for that... I am not the one that was in the audience 😂

@@mintymus They just asked them (and did not announce the speaker in advance).

@@murdo_mck Nice, thanks. He's definitely taking a risk showing his face like that, but it's cool that the people respected it.

So that's why he couldn't get into his wife's Beaver... too many people watching

That constant out of breath sound at the beginning, is caused by his heart racing. Great talk though.

100% agree. He seems out of his natural environment yet put together an awesome talk and great presentation. As an introvert myself (which I'm may be wrong in assuming he is), I know this feeling so well. This was probably significantly more difficult than putting one of his vids together and if he sees this, thank you and well done sir. Smashed it.

It's a completely normal reaction. Everybody has it but the more you put yourself in these situations the more you get used to it and grow.

Amazed how well he overcame it and absolutely smashed the lecture. Nerves don't mean a thing when you're creating something as interesting as this. Well done LPL

Dude has a amazing voice, not up to Morgan freeman's voice but his voice is in a tier of it's own.

Right! He's a funny dude tho.

Watching for almost an hour O__O Am I the only one watching at 2-3x speed? :\

@Eric Blackburn Same, and I have A.D.D and forgot to take my meds!

@@SimonK91 I have to watch all his vids at 1.5/2 speed otherwise I get impatient 🤣

There are two types of lock makers: those that want to make a secure lock, and those that want to make money. Secure locks are expensive, so few people ever buy them. (they also last forever, so again, you sell few of them.) In the Feynman case, it's _much_ easier to secure the man than it would be to get tens of thousands of people to change their behavior.

Read book"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" He was trying to get security to actually secure bomb info. Was part of the team making the bomb during WW2. Very funny guy. Must read history/bio.

Watching this video, I was reminded of something I read about Islam once: "Everything that is not haram, is halal." Why? Because it mirrors the "I don't care what it was made for, I care what it can do" almost perfectly. Yeah old Moe was a terrible person, but in some ways he really was ahead of his time.

​@@Nerobyrne judaism has the same rule. After all, it's a neccessary concept for any system of laws. We can't plan for everything. Our designs won't cover every situation, and trying to do that will only yield an impractical result. A book of laws a million pages long, or a security system that takes up too much time and effort to be worthwhile. And in both cases something will inevitably be missed.

@@Jacob-mq3mh I dunno, seems like Christianity is more like: "If it's not allowed, it's forbidden", which is basically the opposite. I've known tons of fundamentalist Christians that consider everything people enjoy that isn't worshipping God "idols", or some other term that they picked from the "good book".

@@Nerobyrne Pretty much all of them miss the main point of it all. They're supposed to follow the example of Jesus and his selfless ways. I don't know any that do that.

@@PlasticCogLiquid Considering Jesus was a Rabbi in that time it seems like Christians really missed their mark. It's more or less a religion that has been used to start wars. There are a lot of Christians who do good though and I can't act like they don't exist.

This made me smile, thank you good sir

Nice comment good sir

So he forced himself to come out after an appointment was canceled? And still tried to charge someone else money based on your skill set? What kind of greasy shit is that?

@@instrumental I imagine the neighbour agreed to having the lock changed.

Man, I can pick most locks but I’ve tried that bump key trick and had 0 luck lol. Thanks for the story, I could see the entire event unfold while reading.

Such a great talk too... Literally everyone in the industry should hear this. Additionally, I could listen to that voice ramble on for hours on end (even reading the phone book, for instance. lol)

Same

Cheap hobby! Why not.

How did it go? It’s obviously harder than he makes it look, but how did your attempt go?

@@somenygaard The easy ones are pretty easy. The less easy locks are really hard.

@@somenygaard that is how it goes sometimes

And I bet you learned a lot from him without even knowing it. He sounds like the sort of teacher you want to listen to. 😎

@@JuxZeil he actually wasn't a teacher, just a manager that ran the department. But yes, he was very wise and was the sort that loved to share everything they know with others.

In my view, all locks are there to stop crimes of opportunity. When someone really wants to enter, they will.

@@lesath7883 "Where there's a will, there's a way." Not sure where this quote comes from.

@@Peekofwar If there is a will, then it is no longer a crime of opportunity.

He’s the reason I got into lockpicking

@Dr. Dave Ikr. If it wasn't thanks to the replayability of videos, I would feel bad from a sheer thought alone that I wasted a second of his time.

It is always interesting to listen to masters of their field, and LPL makes his videos so well.

He is most excellent. Even though I’m not really into locks I like to know how bad they are before I ever put trust in a lock.

It's his voice it just hypnotists you and your stuck. u physically can't click away it's all in the voice. Lol

I'd say his 2 minute video philosophy is what got me to watch this entire hour. I haven't wasted time on his channel watching filler on other videos, and know he gives the facts straightforward and clear, so an hour of him talking was quite entertaining and knowledgable. Great work LPL!

same here, except I paused a couple of times to get snacks.

Well, then you know what to do next, don't you?

That is exactly what happened to me. I am his subscriber and know well his mostly boring, sometimes entertaining presentation style. I checked this video lasts almost an hour and I don't have time to watch it. Just checking how he sounds in different context outside his channel. And here I am an hour later writing this comment.

insight*

Insight as well. ;)

@@noahway13 It's working

@@noahway13 this might be the dumbest thing ive read today

As much as I love locking picking lawyer if every single person who came to his channel had to watch this video first he wouldn't have many subscribers 59 minutes, like locked picking lawyer said, is a hard ask right off the bat...

Someone should do some cartoon-style artwork to develop a digital character for him.

@@JohnDlugosz Yoo he could become a vTuber!

I imagine a guy in a suit with his face as the logo he uses

There are photos, and they will be released soon

LPL is like Batman. He needs his anonymity to keep us all safe.

He has a very pleasant voice to listen to.

LockPickingLawyer is the Batman of locks, exposing the corrupt lock companies. 🦇

That's the concept of white hat hacking lol Except he's a hacker in a world where no one cares about security and all the locks are jokes 💀

@@Entropy67 Exactly, he's doing white hat hacking where the manufacturers all in blindfolds and their only goal is making the cheapest lock that appears hard to hack.

I almost always used to wear an anorak and a few layers underneath since no mater what anti-perspirant I used, you could see my armpit sweat even on the anorak

@@nooboftheyear7170 use special underwear and use women hygiene pads for your sweat zones. i promise it helps enormously. stick to textil not your skin pls!!

@@giacomocasanova2893 i wouldn't need the underwear but the pads sound interesting. I shall have a hard time explaining to some woman why i need those pads though! At times like these I start to think that I should have married someone :/

@@nooboftheyear7170 theres special underwear with integrated pads (t shirt + boxers) and you can further improve by using pads. you can sweat about 4 litres (1gallon) before there is anything visible. don‘t think twice about buying them. could be for your gf right?

Ibid.

Same here, when writing code I often find myself wondering about the things could go If the code was written in some other way around and what if I just let it be and be done with it.

I wonder if that made your debugging time smaller.

@@youkofoxy Yes and no. Things didn't break often, but when they did and wasn't just me not paying attention, it would confuse the hell out of me. I feel it is better to program with some foresight.

So true. I learned Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code in the early 80's; Sophmore year in high-school. Routinely, everyone in class, would take a crack at thinking/executing ways to make your "dream code" fall flat on it's ass. It not only taught you good code discipline, but how to think outside of your box and everyone else in class.

There's people who think he's fake (because they _clearly_ know more about lockpicking than he does) and then there's people like those locksmiths who think consumer ignorance and letting big business do whatever it wants is somehow "moral." It's things like this being so ubiquitous that strain what faith in humanity I have left.

@@CapnCoconuts I know what you mean. It's even more worrying and annoying that "...throwing away the key after" obviously wouldn't work either. 😑

That's the life of being famous on the internet

LPL11 = LPL cannot open it... *yet.*

That would be rather crude, almost a binary table if it's only master locks

The rating is the time in minutes it takes him to open it.

He still hasn't opened some of the Bosnian Bill naughty bucket locks. He got most of them but not all.

@@buhammot I don't think only 0s is binary

You are right, fellow sir of gud taste and refinement! It is not a fluke that we have been selected for this honor by the Great Algorithm.

All hail the Great Algorithm

I've subscribed to the channel 4 years ago and only now I ''found'' it 😢

Noone will hire him. Their designers know weaknes of their construction, they simply do not want to change. Only way how to change their mind is not to buy these " locks".

Maybe, maybe not. Fixing the flaws that he brings up in lock designs increases costs. That is one of the major issues in all of this, and one of the reasons lock makers don't make more secure products. Additionally, a more secure lock isn't necessarily going to help. A thief who wants into your house is going to bring a hammer, not a lockpick. The door could be unlocked, they will smash a window and climb in around back. They aren't even gonna try the lock. Finally, if locksmiths make better locks then they have to pick those better locks when idiots inevitably lock themselves out of things. If they can't pick the lock, they can't charge the insane fee to do so and even if they can they have to work far harder than showing up with a comb or a bump key or something.

@@donnhussey568 Agree. anyway there are a couple of more situations. Low level " Locks" are atracting tiefs to enter withou trace. Also for isurance purposes it is better to have broken glass than picked lock. I have good (not best) locks on my properties but it was my decision. A lot of people are buying what technically is not matching producer promises. In our country to advertise product not in accordance with reality is against law. I think only way forward fill suit agains producers for not fair marketing. Unfortunatelly it is too expensive solution for consumers.

His April fools videos are comedy gold.

This guy is brilliant. Simply brilliant.

The Lock Picking Comic 😂

Really, he's a surprisingly great presenter

from the video, I think he really IS a lawyer so I don't think he'll mind if his RU-vid thing fails, he can just go back to being a lawyer.

No, it's one of those complication videos where he picks a bunch of locks sequentially. Well, there was ONE item he couldn't open, but that was just a fluke!

Unlocking mindset is a though nut to crack

@Alexandre Fumo And in front of a crowd !

To quote CGPGrey: "There are no doors that angels can open, and demons cannot." (Assuming of course that the LEOs are actually angels, which is debatable.)

​@@Nerobyrne just make it like this: "there is no door that a demon can open, that the devil cannot"

@@Guilherme.DSilva that makes no sense because neither of those should be able to open it

@@Nerobyrne exactly, I don't want Microsoft(demons) to break my privacy, nor hackers(devil) to use that to their advantage

@@Guilherme.DSilva you fundamentally don't understand the metaphor. It's not about groups but intentions.

@Koowluh there's camera's everywhere.

Ahh yes, the old "shoot the messenger" mentality is always something to consider.

@@GeneralNickles Can't you make an anonymous email account? Then start sending an email about the topic to all the higher-ups every week until someone reacts

Aha, and there is master badge (that could open all of places), used by CEO ... and janitor.

Maybe you should take this up with the head of security (if that's not you) discuss this with him/her, and draw a plan from that and move forward to the CEO or the person responsible. For me personally i'd be more angry if a guard "at my company" didn't inform me of any security issues just out of fear of his/her job, you know. Then again, i'm not an American so my point of view is maybe not theirs

This was a legacy of copying the subs from before an edit

Also that a bunch of "security" is just lies wrapped in metal.

Nice catch!

damn I just missed seeing it by a few hours. Quick fix Saintcon

@@SAINTCON nice action! seems you were fast enough; otherwise his face would be everywhere

@@SAINTCON How was it possible to fix that after the video has already been published? Does RU-vid have an exception that allows reupload in this case?

Someone link to a screencap?

You can hear in his voice that he's nervous... and I can't imagine trying to pick a lock in front of a large crowd like that.

A point LPL made that I think you may have overlooked is that people don't just adopt something: they adapt the products or ideas they buy into. So by looking at what they COULD do with a product, the customer is looking at ways to adapt the product to their particular needs, without reference to what the INTENDED use is. Kinda like what Finnish soldiers did in World War Two by putting glass bottles, thickened gasoline, a stopper and a rag soaked in kerosene together. Think of all the alternate uses involved in Molotov Cocktail: the bottle holds liquids, but what kinds of liquids? The stopper holds liquids in the bottle, but how long? The rag can soak up lots of liquids, but why kerosene? Individually, the adjustments amount to little, but together, they change otherwise innocent items into potent weapons of war. So it's not just a question of how things can go wrong -- it's a question of how people might use things in ways we never imagined. On, on a related note, I'm glad to know you include knowledgable people in troubleshooting. I used to be in avionics maintenance in the US Air Force, and I always heard flightline techs complaining about engineers who design things without ever thinking about how real people are going to maintain their systems out on real flightlines in real austere places. I thing it should be essential that engineers go out to the flightline and show maintenance techs how things are SUPPOSED to be done -- and then listen to the techs for how they ACTUALLY have to do things to keep jets flying!

I ask others with varying degrees of experience of the task at hand how everything looks to them occasionally. It is a very good way to see things that you would have never considered, or things that you may just not have the experience to see. As someone who is very good at, and has many years of experience at what they do it is always insightful to take a step back and let others criticize your work. Amazing how we all see the world so differently, and such a waste to just discount others opinions unless you have a very solid and provable reason to do so.

my grandfather said that everything before the word "but" is not true..therefore you are a criminal!!!!!

"I'm not a criminal"💀

It’s like puzzle solving to me. I enjoy picking all the locks I’ve lost keys for in my 50 year life. So glad I didn’t throw them away

He seems to praise Paclock pretty highly most of the time.

@@Locklear93 I was going to post just the word Paclock. They're the only lock maker that I've seen send LPL a lock to test, after they addressed issues he revealed in a video.

Bowley seems to be onto something.

A lock is only as good as the thing it's attached to. Forget the lock, take out the shoddy door!

Paclock I like because after the video, they are in the comments sweeping them for any issues that anyone else might have noticed and suggestions / proposals for improvements on that lock or anything else in their range. I believe that is why Lpl likes them so much, as based on this talk, they seem to be part of the solution. Did anyone fall asleep during the first para of my reply?

Same. This was an absolute masterclass on both hacking mindset and law bending.

He’s my RU-vid role model for my channel!

Great comment!

This is why in software development you never have the engineers that write the software do QA. They’d find nothing wrong. You must have a separate QA team that’s not involved in the design and development of the said software.

@@nauy That's exactly how bugs/exploits in games get put into production, too. While people who are involved in development can find nothing wrong, the general public (with the benefit of being a vastly larger audience) who are actually searching for exploits will find them, sometimes on day 1. QA testing teams need to have zero knowledge of that development process, including on how/what bugs might have been fixed between sessions.

@@CalculatedRiskAK I do not think they still hire people outside to do QA anymore. Years ago it was tons of QA tester jobs for people but now its completely gone.

@@Jbig1430 Many rely on automated test suites. And guess who writes those tests?

Ooooo I love the idea of the Fool in a development process tho

Hes a lawyer son, he got training in talking all fancy and stuff. No but I love His speaking voice it is awesome makes the videos very entertaining, and educational.

Abus, assa are good locks for the most part. You'll have to find it online. Most criminals don't pick locks they cut them or smash them or shim them. Meaning you want boron shackle , ball bearing anti shim, and an extremely durable cover

@@joedirt9057 You can't name any brand and buy blindly. As LPL explained during the entire video the lock industry has been running on those deep flaws for decades and centuries. Every manufacturer has a ton of shitty locks and only a few of them have actually decent locks. Abus has some of the most secure high end locks but the same brand also has that shitty padlock with the "unauthorized opening of that lock is very very bad" message on the back that he combed in 2 seconds. And sometimes a company with an excellent lock decides to redesign it for some obscure reason (mainly reducing manufacturing costs). And they introduce a flaw that wasn't there before. The lock has the same look on the outside, nothing indicating that the design has changed. It's the same price as before and benefits from the good praise of the original design. But it's actually a completely insecure product.

Not a young offender here. I learned to break open 4 digit bike combination locks around that age. Just for fun really as Iiked puzzles in general, but it was never difficult. Strange that in this century, these engineered products are so shockingly bad at the one function they were designed for.