Learning to pick locks is a fun exercise in learning about locking mechanisms, honing a useful skill, and getting a better understanding of how locks work and protect—or fail to protect—you and your ...

Most consumer-grade locks aren’t that secure. To wit, if you ever need to open a basic padlock or combination lock without a key, all you need is a soda can, a boxcutter, and a little precise cutting.

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Here’s any easy method for backing out the combination of a Master Lock. In a perfect world there would be 64,000 possible lock combinations (40 3). The construction of the lock prevents this from ...