• @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      174 months ago

      Imagine you wake up in the night, you hear your front door rattling. Someone is trying to break in. “No problem” you think to yourself, “I have a good lock on my front door”. Then you hear the five most terrifying words you could possibly hear in that moment:

      “This is the Lockpicking Lawyer”

    • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 months ago

      That guy is an exceptional picker/exploiter, and he isn’t even the best.

      However, I’ve casually picked locks and always have a set of picks with me for the past 20 years. LPL makes me look like a 10 year old kid trying to open a lock with a pair of chopsticks.

      In other words, probably less than 5% of the population have ever picked a lock. Of them, I’m probably better than 90% and I still suck at it. So running across an LPL level skilled person, who’s also a criminal is going to be like a list of names on a single piece of paper. Just buy a lock complicated enough that you can’t scrub it open and everyone will be fine.