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Welcome to The Lock Sportscast, your weekly source for Locksports news and sometimes interviews. This is episode 52 recorded May 29th, 2021. I'm your host, Charles current in today's episode, we have the first pick of the Abloh, easy, a 200 K club patch design. How to bypass the new master one 75. Return of some in-person meetups, a new black belt picker speedlocks.org records, criminals that don't need to pick locks, lock, picking criminals, sails, and giveaways.
[00:00:45] Remember, you can find the audio version of the show on most podcast apps and at The Lock Sportscast dot com. You can find a video version on YouTube links to all stories discussed will be in the show notes, YouTube, and some apps limit the length of show notes. So you can find full show notes with links at The Lock Sportscast dot com a couple of quick announcements.
[00:01:04] Uh, I just wanted to say thank you to pocket woman, the Orangutang story last week that a lot of people seem to really enjoy was hers. And thank you very much. I just want to make sure she gets credit for that since everybody enjoyed it. Also, I have an interview episode with tumbler about the origins of the Lock Pickers United in the lockpicking subreddits belt system.
[00:01:24] So if you are interested in knowing how that came about, uh, stay tuned for that episode. It releases Wednesday, June 2nd. And I wanted to thank Pyrolock for leaving a note in the discord saying he finally got a response from Michael Maynard at gorilla picking. He was concerned because he, cause he hadn't seen a video in the last nine, 10 months from Michael and he was able to get ahold of him and confirm that everything's fine.
[00:01:45] Yeah. He's just been really busy and I think that's, uh, it's good to know. There's a lot of people that have kind of come and gone from the Locksports scene and you never know for sure what's happening sometimes. And it's good to check in with people every once in a while. You know, not everybody at once.
[00:02:03] You don't want to bombard them with emails, but it is nice to. To know that they're okay. At least. And we have what appears to be the first public pick of the alloy, easy by, uh, a person that I'm going probably going to butcher this name. I didn't hurt her hers. I don't know how to say that. Um, I'm sorry.
[00:02:28] Anyway, uh, ma put out a video called  picked and gutted, and I was completely unfamiliar with what the apple easy is. And it turns out that's because it's an actually a pretty new lock. Uh, this description comes from The Lock Wiki. The EASI is a disc detainer Lock made by amyloid. The easy cylinder allows the key to be turned only one direction as such.
[00:02:51] It is primarily used in spring bolts, padlocks and cam locks. It features a symmetrical convenience key with a large bow available in blue, pink, yellow purple. Uh, the key displays, a unique QR code for key control purposes, identify or one identifying element of the key is an oval shaped hole through the blade near the tip.
[00:03:13] And it says it was announced publicly on April 16th, 2021 superseding the Abla Cento and the patent expires in 2040 and woke up this afternoon to get ready to record this. I found that there had been another video posted on that channel from layer one 2021 from the lockpicking village Abba, easy study presentation.
[00:03:35] And it's really. Not a lot of talking during the presentation of, well, at least not the video he posted on his channel. He he's probably one he was using for the, the presentation, but a really, a lot of detail in there about how the lock works and the tool he had to make to pick it. Uh, very interesting.
[00:03:53] Check it out if it's still up, when this video goes out. And last week, PacLock posted a poll on the subreddit to select the final design for the new 200 K club patch. They had already picked four finalists from the designs that were submitted to them and they allowed the Reddit users to vote on which one they preferred a part of the post read.
[00:04:17] The four finalists have been chosen for the 200 K patch contest. There were some creative submissions and the PacLock team was very impressed at all the work put into the designs and selecting the final design. We're not only looking for a creative way to express The Lock picking community, the 98 pro and PacLock, but also feasibility of the logo being stitched as a patch, the poll was only up for a very short period of time, but you can still head over and check it out the poll results and see which design came out ahead.
[00:04:48] And as many of you know, I enjoy the creative things people make in Locksports and Joshua Gonzales shared this one with me. It is by Lambda to custom pick on Reddit, a post. They posted a video that is called The Lock picks by pen aluminum body inside a lockpick tool set, tension tools, pen clip, basically it's an old working aluminum body pen that acts as a container for.
[00:05:16] The picks they make and attention are pretty creative. Uh, simple design. I have several videos here to share that I thought were interesting this week. First is with sending them to me by multiple people. This is the all about The Lock picking belt ranking system by John Locke. I think it's a very good overview of the belt system and its general requirements and very well-timed.
[00:05:40] Since I have my episode with Tumblr coming out this week. That will go through the origins of the belt system. So if you're unfamiliar with the belt system, go ahead and check out that video by John Locke link as always, we'll be in the show notes. Mr. Black magic has been keeping busy making his lock cam videos.
[00:05:59] His latest is on the  dimple lock with a magnetic element. It's actually one of the pin stacks is replaced with a. Magnetic key pen and a magnet and the spring is taken out in a space or put in place. He does a great job of describing how it works, how to pick it and showing all the pieces. So another interesting one to check out and Bosnian bill did a review of lock noobs, latest pick set with multipack.
[00:06:27] It's the dual peak rake kit. The description of the video says we'll take a look at Lock newbs, new dual peak pick kit that is being produced by multipack in Germany. Designed for new pickers, it contains an excellent collection of lock Lochner, designed rakes, and picks that most new pickers will find useful.
[00:06:44] Anyway, if you're not familiar with the set, you can go check that out link to both that and the multi-pack site where you can buy. It will be in the show notes. I also received a note from the professional hobbyist that said since deviant and lockpicking lawyer, both recently mentioned the new tighter tolerance master one 75 locks being harder to bypass.
[00:07:05] Here's my solution. Using a tool made from seven thousands, feeler gauge. It's a unique tool with a large hook on it. Anyway, it's hard to describe exactly how he uses it. So I will put a link in the show notes to his video. The video is called master one 75 word Lock, tighter tolerances, but still by passable, I will also include links to the master video master one 75 videos by lockpicking lawyer and deviant that he references.
[00:07:35] And I was encouraged to see a post by Oak city. Locksports this last week that said, man, it's awesome to be back together in person last weekend, lots of regulars and many newbies getting back to our pre pandemic venue. Sammy's tap and grill on Sunday, June 27th meetup post coming soon on the porch, unless it's too hot.
[00:07:56] Otherwise AC in the backroom. Anyway, it was good to see that some things are starting to get back to normal and people are able under certain circumstances to be able to get back in to in-person meetups. I think that's very encouraging and it will be great when this is all over and we can at least get back to some semblance of a normal life.
[00:08:21] Moving on to the speedlocks.org dot org records. This week, we says we have a new world record for the master lock one 40 by Plaza seven in 1.367 seconds. We also have first records for both the Dom IIX Saturn by reindeer in 8.74 seconds. And the ABUS 65 60 by lemon in 8.1 seconds. They also announced that the.
[00:08:47] First batch of speedlocks.org tournament locks are ready to be sent out. Moving on to the Lock Pickers United belts. This week, Memorial earned a brown belt
[00:09:02] and we have a new black belt announcement that says let's congratulate at NEF on achieving the rank of black belt with Lock Pickers United. He picked his way through these ice icon. WSW the Assa twin.  the Eva ICS, a Beilock the urban ALP stealth key and a Dom IIX twin star. Make sure to ping him mercilessly and let our note, let him know our admiration for his accomplishment.
[00:09:27] Very, very well done. Congratulations to both of you. If you're not already familiar with the Lock Pickers United belt system, you can check out the video. I mentioned earlier in this episode by John Locke. Or just head over to The Lock, picking subreddit. They have a belt ranking information page over there that has all of the information.
[00:09:46] It is the definitive source. It's a lot of reading, but it is all the details on how to earn the belts and all the locks in each of the rankings. So go check that out. And now it's time to say thank you real quick to the people that made this episode possible. We have, uh, first off the. Patrion subscribers.
[00:10:05] We have bill en Medler Panda-Frog Michael Gilchrist. Starrylock Williams brain Dave, to be deciphered Liibans Locksports Journey, pat from uncensored tactical, pH picker, three raccoons and a coat Chirael and Mogg. Thank you to all of you. We have the chief content producer for this episode is Joshua Gonzales out.
[00:10:25] Did Chirael by just a hair this week to earn that spot. Other content producers for this episode are Chirael Jeff and things. Just a picky girl lock maker, tattooer, Mr. Black magic Norlene, AKA Michael Gilchrist, Panda-Frog pocket woman Pyrolock rune rubber band Starrylock to hairnet the professional hobbyist and Tony reli.
[00:10:46] Thank you very much to all of you. Uh, just remember the show is only possible because of the information and support from the community. So if you value the podcast, the number one thing you can do to help keep it going is send in news links, events, giveaway information, anything you have Locksports related either send it in as an email, a note on the discord posted on my Locksports news channel on my discord DME, or just tag me on social media.
[00:11:12] Just at me on, in a comment or a reply or whatever, and I should get a notification and see it. Unfortunately I'm not on Facebook much. I really don't enjoy Facebook. So that one might not always work because I don't always remember to get over there and check it. But most of the other methods I do, you can also share the podcast with your lockpicking friends, either online or in person.
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[00:11:56] Just for reference. The tumbler episode has been up since last Wednesday for the patrons. That's the only benefit I can give them, unfortunately. So I try to make sure they at least get that. A few things on the state of the podcast, I'm going to need your help, making a little bit of a decision here up to this point.
[00:12:13] I've always tried to keep the show close to 30 minutes. Sometimes I don't have enough news and I frantically searched for more to fill up the time others I have more than will fit in that time. Sometimes I dropped the less time sensitive material to keep the show from running too long and then add it to a later show.
[00:12:29] But I thought maybe I shouldn't be doing that. So I'll put it to you. When I have more news than fits in an approximate 30 minutes show, would you prefer I limit the news or run the show long? Just let me know what you think. I would appreciate it. If you listen to the audio version of the podcast, have you heard of podcasting 2.0, it's a new initiative run by a small group that are adding some amazing features to podcasting, including chapters to help you find the part of the podcast you want to listen to.
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[00:13:40] Um, it also is flexible enough to allow me to potentially embed, uh, the full credits who the producers and. Contemporaries. There's where there's also the value tag, which allows for that lead for value streaming payment system that enables the listeners on certain apps to send Bitcoin micropayments to the podcast or as they listen in real time.
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[00:15:04] As most of us know in Larkspur community criminals don't necessarily need to pick locks to gain access to stuff. There are lots of methods that have been established in the Locksports community and the red teaming community and thieves are getting wise to these probably have been for a long time.
[00:15:20] Just hasn't been published. Anyway, this article from Japan was entitled. Savvy fees, only need a keys number to gain access. I'll just go over some of the highlights here on May 10th, a former medical student. Who's 37 was arrested for breaking into a condominium shared by several university. Co-eds his interrogators say that between September of 2014 and last January, the man had broken into 164 residences in order to pilfer articles of underwear.
[00:15:50] He reportedly told police. I broke into homes because I wanted a view of worlds that typically can't be seen. And they say that during his years, as a student, he became aware that female students frequently left their handbags on guard. At the top of their desks. He was still a glance at the numbers and printed on the keys or photograph them and use that code to create a Passkey.
[00:16:14] He would then ask around to determine the owners addresses, try and figure out where they lived. He would wait for an opportunity and break in just using the key. The article also quotes a spokesman for the Japan lock security Federation, who explained the original keys that manufacturers ship with locks are imprinted with a 10 digit alphanumeric code.
[00:16:34] So the system has been set up so that in nearly all cases, spare keys can be procured by sales agents nationwide. There have been other cases also in November, 2020, Coby police arrested a man in his thirties for repeated break-ins during which he stole over 4 million yen in cash and other items. His modus operandi was the same in that he was able to catch a glimpse of the numbers on his victim keys.
[00:16:59] Also between February, 2017 and August, 2019, a staff member at a police forensics laboratory. Broke into the dormitory rooms of two female staff members on multiple occasions when arrested police determined, he had used the same method for break-in according to data from the national police agency, 3,309.
[00:17:18] Incidents of break-ins occurred during 2016, in which entry was gained by use of a Passkey, even the so-called magnetic dimple keys, which are supposed to be able to throw at copying by potential thieves appear to be vulnerable. If their number can be obtained. The Japan Lock securities representative was quoted as saying these keys gained a wire use about 20 years ago when the number of burglaries due to lock, picking became widespread.
[00:17:45] But with more sales of locks being made via the internet or mail orders, unauthorized people outside of official sales channels became involved and even dimple keys could be duplicated once their number fell into the hands of the wrong people. The importance of maintaining security of numbers on keys cannot be overlooked.
[00:18:03] And I think that's something that has been highlighted in the Locksports community. Quite often, they give a few tips as to using a, a duplicate key because the numbers stamped on them are usually shorter. It says, and not a full code and a few other things, but anyway, interesting article. So you can go check that out if you want.
[00:18:24] And just a picky girl sent in an article entitled woman shares phrase that saved her after scary device was used to open her hotel door. Ms. Bowers uploaded a series of clips to Tik TOK sharing the scariest experience of her life. When she was just 15, she says she was on vacation in Maryland with her family.
[00:18:43] When someone tried to get into her hotel room at the Hilton, she's now 19 and shared a clip of a device that she says they used, which is an under door tool. She went on to explain the situation. She found herself in alone wearing nothing but a towel. She said I was staying in ocean city at the Hilton right there on the waterfront.
[00:19:05] And I went to go to the shower as the rest of my family was down at the beach. I was by myself before I could shower. I heard these noises. I went to go see what it was. And it was this contraption. I was just standing there in my towel and this man opened the door. She said she didn't have time to process the situation, which is why she didn't grab the device.
[00:19:27] And she didn't have time to call the police. She recalled thinking I'm in a towel right now, and someone is about to break in and get me. So the door opens a crack and I just slammed it back shut and put the deadbolt on to says whoever was on the other side of the door claim to be services saying they came to fix the door, which sounded a little sketchy to her.
[00:19:48] She says I didn't have time to process anything, but my main thought was I'm in a towel and I'm literally naked. Do they have weapons? If I stopped them, are they going to get mad and hurt me? I wasn't really sure of the situation. I was only 15. I wasn't thinking that fast. Apparently the would be intruders said, so they tell me your key card is broken and we need to get into the room and fix your keypad for you.
[00:20:15] And so she opened the door a tad bit to see if it was a worker. It clearly wasn't. They were in jeans and a t-shirt and she says, Helton keeps it pretty classy. She continued saying that her stepdad was a police officer. He taught her never to let people in when you're alone, she yelled, Hey dad, there's someone here to fix the door.
[00:20:36] And as soon as they thought that I wasn't alone and potentially my dad was there, they ran and they were gone. She says she wanted to spread. Safety awareness. And she has urged people to always use the deadbolt in a hotel or college dorms. She also mentioned that you can of course get door stoppers and other devices.
[00:20:56] So very scary situation. Lots of people have seen it. I think it had something when this article was written 4 million views. So, uh, definitely raising some awareness, our crazy locksmith story for this week from American key supply reads. The craziest locksmith customer experience I ever had was this one.
[00:21:16] I got a job to unlock a car. The lady told me over the phone that she was in a hurry because she had chicken in the trunk. I got there within half an hour of her call unlocked her vehicle. She opened the trunk and there were two cages with dead chickens. It was so awful. She never mentioned the chickens were live.
[00:21:35] So we all figured she went to the grocery store, shopping and needed to get groceries out. Reported it, but don't know whatever happened and lockpicking criminal news. We've got several stories here. First off, police issued a warning about door lock types. Following a spike in burglaries in Leeds area, the west Yorkshire police have issued a warning to residents following an increase in burglaries in the area.
[00:22:01] Spokesman said we've unfortunately seen a slight spike in burglaries in the pers offered Yeadon route in areas this week, the method in which the burglaries were attempted, was consistent, mainly targeting properties, fitted with Euro profile locks. There's no actual mention in the article of the exact method employed just that it was all consistent.
[00:22:22] They encourage residents to follow their crime prevention advice on locks, which is basically use a three-star rated. Lock or a sold secure diamond standard Lock four hand door handles, handles achieving a two star rating under the T S O O seven should also be considered. You can change the cylinders yourself, but you have to make sure that they are sized correctly.
[00:22:45] They should not be fitted. So they are left protruding from the door unit or handle. If you are going to get somebody to upgrade your locks for you, make sure to use the master locksmiths association and always obtain three quotes for the fitting of new locks to the standards, referenced and pick the one that best suits your circumstances.
[00:23:03] You may also be able to fit sash jammers to your doors, but be careful because some door warranties don't allow that they say. We also have a story out of St. Louis titled Thiess break into local locksmith business owner Hope's surveillance, video leads to a quick arrest. So Ron Krauss, second generation owner of Crouse lock and key.
[00:23:24] He said two of his vans were broken into and locksmiths stool and locksmith tools were taken from the store and surveillance cameras were in plain sight and lights that shine at the front of the store that didn't seem to bother them surveillance video. Captured images of the suspects about 4:00 AM says Kraus believes what appears on surveillance video to be a unmarked tow truck leaving the same words was also part of the crime.
[00:23:50] Some items taken included, locksmith tools used to gain entry to vehicle when keys are lost or stolen. And then a second followup story from St. Louis. They say St. Louis police believe person who stole tools from a local locksmith also broke into a local tow company. Thousands of dollars with the tools were stolen from St.
[00:24:11] Louis tow company also caught on surveillance video. It looks like the same guy who hit the nearby locksmith Smith business. This one was around 1:45 AM on Monday, a white tow truck pulled up in front of the towing company. A couple of minutes later, man can be seen getting out of the truck and walking to the back of the building in the video.
[00:24:31] You can see the man what the man is wearing. It's the exact same thing he was wearing was caught on camera, breaking into the locksmith company. He took tools that locksmith used to gain entry to a vehicle at Hartman towing. The thief took everything that you would need to tow a vehicle suspect spent about 10 minutes going through the boxes of the tow trucks.
[00:24:51] The thief stole about $5,000 worth of tools from to unlock trucks. And yeah, so the owner says that they want to catch this guy, not only to get their equipment back, but they're also worried what he will do next. Now that he has all these tools. He has this, as they say, quote, he has the stuff to get into cars and he has the stuff to tow cars with.
[00:25:14] So it looks like somebody is setting up for some serious crime there. And in California, Mendocino county, sheriff deputies say they conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for an equipment violation in Ukiah, California. Deputy has contacted the driver, the sole occupants of the vehicle. As the suspect exited the vehicle to speak with deputies, they observed illegal drug paraphernalia in the driver's seat area of the vehicle.
[00:25:38] They searched the vehicle for further evidence of drugs. During the search, they found a live 12 gauge shotgun round. Also in the vehicle with several tools, commonly used to commit burglaries. These include a lock pick gun and an inflatable doorway edge. Record check on the suspect reveal. He was previously convicted felon prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition.
[00:26:01] Deputies arrested him for being a felon in possession of ammunition and for being in possession of burglary tools. And he was booked into the local jail to release on zero bail. After the booking process in accordance with COVID-19 bail schedule set forth by the state of California judicial council.
[00:26:19] And in Cleveland police have arrested a man who was accused of impersonating a officer. The spokesman for the police department said the suspect was wearing a gun fake badge and driving a wart white Ford crown Vic with flashing lights in the front windshield. When he stopped a driver a Monday night on Greenwood avenue for failing to stop at a stop sign.
[00:26:40] The victim gave his license to the suspect and then called nine one one. Once he walked back to his vehicle, Cleveland police responded to the scene, finding a flashlight taser, two sets of handcuffs, badge, and lock, picking kit. All the items were seized along with the vehicle. He was taken into custody booked into the Bradley county justice center.
[00:27:01] He is charged with criminal impersonation and he statement from the Cleveland police department. They say, while officers. May not look uniformed. In some cases they possess department issued gear and identification that can be produced at any time. Another way to verify the identification of an officer is to call nine one, one or the non-emergency number to verify the legitimacy of an officer and or a traffic stop to always keep that in mind.
[00:27:29] If you have any suspicions that you are not dealing with a real police officer. In sales this week, we have a couple of memorials sales. South org has 20% discount on selected items with the code Memorial 20. That is good from May 28th to Wednesday, June 2nd. And I will have a link to the sale page on that lock pick shop.com has a 15% off everything including sale items, pick items excluded.
[00:27:58] So I don't know how everything excludes anything, but anyway, Use the code L P S M D 2021. That expires Monday 31st at midnight Pacific. So if you're getting this episode right away, you still have time. If not, sorry, you missed it. The usual ones were 3d Locksports dot com 10% off with the code L S cast 10.
[00:28:25] And make a lox 15% off with the code by Maaco, UK Lock Pickers, 10% off with the code gift. I didn't have time this week to check to make sure those still work, but they've been working forever. I have no reason to think it will change giveaways this week, same as last week. So I'll just go over them real quick.
[00:28:44] Mr. Black magic has his lock magic. 200 giveaway where he's giving them away a lock cam and a few other things. If you don't know the rules, go check out the link in the show notes or listen to one of my previous episodes. Rune has his giveaway where he gives away one of his challenge locks that he has picked the previous Saturday.
[00:29:03] He gives one of those way every Saturday, check that out. Panda-Frog his may video is still active for a very short period of time. And I expect his June one will come up shortly afterwards. So go check those out on his site. See, okay. Supplies there. Hashtag lockbox giveaway runs every week. Starrylock in pocket.
[00:29:20] Women are still doing the shout out Monday series where they highlight channels with fewer than a hundred subscribers. Try to incentivize people to go check them out and you can see those on Starrylock and pocket woman's sites. I know Starrylock maintains a playlist that contains both of theirs. So you can go check that out.
[00:29:37] It's quick and easy way to go through it. They're also adding a special prize this month. In addition to the 20 pound law Lock tools, gift certificate pocket woman is adding a prize for a couple of lighted followers that she made herself. Of course, I have my giveaway still running. I know I'm behind on doing the videos.
[00:29:53] I've been really busy, um, but The Lock Sportscast giveaway one of my custom PacLock 100 days or a $20 gift code for Hugin keys.com. So check that out at giveaway dot The Lock Sportscast dot com. So thank you for listening. Remember the show needs your support to exist. So get that information into me. Um, doesn't matter if you think that everybody shared it or you think it's too small, send it anyway.
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