Ordered a set of lock-picks from http://www.lockpicks.com a week ago. And I bought a $5 double deadbolt from Target to practice on.
I've been playing around with it for a few days, but so far not much progress. The instruction manual claims it should only take about an hour to learn how to pick it the easy way but that's pretty misleading. I can successfully open it randomly now and then, but every time it opens I have no idea how I did it or why. Very frustrating. But at least the frequency with which I can open it is increasing (slowly).
I used to be too ashamed of my fettish for locks and locksmithing/lockpicking to act on it. I think it is one and the same as my love for security and cryptography in computers. But once I read Richard Feynman's autobio "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feyman" I felt a lot better about myself since he was into the same kind of stuff. Now I can use that as an excuse for why I'm obsessed with picking locks even though I'm not a dirty rotten criminal ;) Back off man, I'm a physicist!
I've been playing around with it for a few days, but so far not much progress. The instruction manual claims it should only take about an hour to learn how to pick it the easy way but that's pretty misleading. I can successfully open it randomly now and then, but every time it opens I have no idea how I did it or why. Very frustrating. But at least the frequency with which I can open it is increasing (slowly).
I used to be too ashamed of my fettish for locks and locksmithing/lockpicking to act on it. I think it is one and the same as my love for security and cryptography in computers. But once I read Richard Feynman's autobio "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feyman" I felt a lot better about myself since he was into the same kind of stuff. Now I can use that as an excuse for why I'm obsessed with picking locks even though I'm not a dirty rotten criminal ;) Back off man, I'm a physicist!
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The truly crappy locks on filing cabinets and lockers and such are good confidence boosters because they often involve only 3 or 4 tumblers and have major imperfections in manufacture (making the tumblers easier to "pin" from the slight rotational pressure).
Did you ever read that Feynman book?
Yeah, unfortunately "read" and "read" are spelled exactly the same but I meant it in the past tense. Great book!
I'm no longer in the physics field. This has nothing to do with the aforementioned beer, guitar playing, sword fighting, etc. :)
These days I earn my kip mostly from software ventures I'm involved in.