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[00:00:00] Charles Current: Welcome to The Lock Sportscast, your weekly source for Locksports news. This is episode 84 recorded January 8th, 2022. I'm your host Charles Grant in today's episode, the slug and code plus blocking relay attacks, thieves targeting garages, a safe manipulation video course, a locksmithing video course, a movie like jewelry, heist, and other criminal stories, sales, giveaways, and. 

[00:00:39] you can subscribe to the audio version of the show on most podcast apps and at The Lock Sportscast dot com. If you don't already have one, you can find a podcasting 2.0 compatible app@newpodcastapps.com. You can subscribe to the video version of the show on YouTube or. Thanks to stories discussed will be in the show notes, not all services. 

[00:00:58] Let me post the full link show notes with all the links, but you can always find those at The Lock. Sportscast dot com is to put in The Lock Sportscast dot com slash and the episode number. And they'll take you right to them. So, first up, I want to apologize upfront. If this episode it ends up being a bit short and possibly a bit late. 

[00:01:15] My work is being affected by the recent spike in COVID cases. Currently, there are two of us in my department that are able to cover the. Normally that require four people to cover. Also, there've been some, uh, issues at home that have taken it a little bit of extra time this week. So I apologize, but this is the best I can do to get the show out this week. 

[00:01:37] Also, don't forget that the lucky award nominations are open now through the end of the month, you can go to lucky awards.net or Lockie awards.com, either one register and make your nomination. Let me know if you have any problems with the site. I have had reports of the site being slow and throwing some errors. 

[00:01:56] I have not been able to reproduce those on my end. I don't know if it's an issue specifically with GoDaddy's hosting in other countries or what's going on, but I haven't personally seen any issues every time I've tested it, but that doesn't mean that they're not there and I'm no WordPress expert. Let me know if you have anything and I will try to find some time to check it out. 

[00:02:22] Just be specific. If you do take the time to let me know that there's a problem, please be specific. You know, what page you were on, what the error was or anything like that would definitely help someone with my limited skill level, narrow down the problem. Also a couple of quick corrections from last. On the story where I said tool was a victim of credit card fraud. 

[00:02:44] It was actually tool U S is a victim of debit card fraud, slightly different. Somebody pointed that out to me and I just wanted to make sure I corrected that here. Also, I stated last week that it was 2021, again, evidently in instead of 2022, that's not uncommon. I do that all the time. First up in the news, Schlag announced the slag Incode plus smart wifi dead. 

[00:03:08] They say The Lock launches this spring and that it is the first smart lock solution in north America market to support Apple's home keys for iPhone and apple watch with home keys, consumers can simply tap to unlock slugging code plus Debolt using their iPhone and apple watch for easy and secure access to their homes. 

[00:03:28] They also say that users can take advantage of slugs unique and highly rated connected experience by managing the slagging code plus through the Schlager home. The home key integration lets you unlock your door by simply holding your iPhone or apple. Watch near the Lock. You can choose to require face ID, touch ID or passcode on your iPhone. 

[00:03:50] To add an extra layer of security. The Lock will also support power reserve so that even if your phone is out of battery, you'll be able to tap to unlock for up to five hours after losing. Um, key has some restrictions, namely that you need an iPhone XR or newer running iOS 15 and an apple watch series four or newer to use it. 

[00:04:13] In addition to apple home kit, the encode plus is supposed to work with Google assistant and Amazon Alexa voice commands. And if the Schlager and code plus is connected through an apple home hub, you can also use Siri to control your lock away from home. And if you like The Lock also uses a physical key as a. 

[00:04:32] But its primary input is intended to be the number pad they say. So a lot more connected options on this one. Let's hope that doesn't come back to bite them. Next up is an article called how to block my car key signal to prevent keyless vehicle theft. This article is actually back from November written by David Mullen of Sunday times driving. 

[00:04:56] The article starts off by saying keyless cars, which allow the doors to be locked and unlocked by touching the door handle, or even simply approaching it while the fob is in your pocket or bag are brilliant, convenient. And especially if you have your hands full, but with this smart technology has come a higher risk of the car being stolen. 

[00:05:13] As tech savvy criminals have developed ways to trick the car into unlocking and starting for that reason, you may want to know the best way to block the signal from your car. And the article goes through several sections. I'm just gonna highlight the key points here. It says, how does keyless car theft work? 

[00:05:30] And they say the most common form of keyless car theft involves signal relay attacks. So they say, how can I block my car key signal? The best way to prevent keyless theft is to block the signal, being emitted from the key fob while some manufacturers, Mercedes, and Subaru, for instance, allow drivers to turn off their fobs. 

[00:05:49] Once they're out of the car. For other drivers. There's a good alternative. When at home starting keys and a metal lined Faraday box or pouch will block the signal being sent out from your key fob, they say, does tinfoil block a car key signal? And they say, well, tinfoil does have some effect. It may only dampen the signal rather than blocking it fully. 

[00:06:09] Other ways to prevent car theft are steering wheel locks, wheel boots, and other methods that we have discussed from other. The last section is what do police say? And they say that, uh, assistant chief, Constable Jenny Sims has advised that she would urge drivers to take simple steps, to keep their vehicles safe, like storing the keys in Middletons or protective pouches that block the devices, criminals. 

[00:06:37] A return to basics, like making sure your car is locked is worthwhile too. We know from research that some owners think that their cars automatically lock and they don't always double check before you walk away that your car is locked. Excellent advice at the end there. And in San Francisco, these are targeting garages in the Pacific Heights neighborhood. 

[00:06:59] This is also from November and it was reported by KPIX CBS, San Francisco. It looks like the thieves are going in through garage doors in the middle of the night, often by drilling a hole in the door and hooking the emergency cord with homemade hooks. And in the video posted on YouTube, they have an example of the homemade hooks that the thieves are using. 

[00:07:22] Interesting that they're, they're quite bulky hooks. They're not slipping them in over the top of the door. Like some of the commercially designed models, they're just taking a hole saw and drilling a hole in the door. So they can that. Not worrying too much about the noise that it creates. They're definitely getting bolder. 

[00:07:40] Moving on to community news. We have an update for the 2022 Lock Pickers, United raffle. They say so far, we are at a total of $29,614 raised, including matching donations of that. Reddit has raised $1,601 while discord has raised 15,730. And I know that doesn't add up to the 29 thousands listed above, but I'm guessing some of that has matching donations. 

[00:08:05] I'm not sure how that total works out. Anyway, thank you to everyone who has donated to that really appreciate all the support for the raffle. Also Panda-Frog and moon have put together a website for the raffle, which includes links. To the approved charity list, the prize pot list, the entry form ticket tracker and gravity Karma's videos about the raffle explaining how it works, how to enter and what you can win. 

[00:08:29] So recommend checking that side out. It's LPU dot Locksports dash service.com/raffle. And the link will be in the show notes as always. And right as I was sitting down to record this. I saw that Lock newb had put up a video about the new bully, wrote a Cera disc detainer Lock, where he does a full tear down of the new bully Lock and a thorough explanation of the lock and its mechanisms. 

[00:08:54] So I recommend you go over to his channel and check that out. The link will be in the show notes. If you aren't already subscribed and being a to Z or good guy on Twitter post. A link to a series of videos called group two safe manipulation, safe cracking course description on the first video says, join me on the blast tastic journey and learn to manipulate a safe it's a whole playlist of videos. 

[00:09:23] The video titles in the playlist. I haven't watched them all. I've watched, uh, two of them, but the titles of the videos in the playlist are introduction, safe, manipulation, ethics, how safe locks. The re locker, the fly and the forbidden zone. Changing the combination introduction to manipulation scanning the wheel pack amplifying find the exact gate location, which wheel the high low test the manipulation process graphing gate signatures, not finding a gate signature fixing issues with the high, low. 

[00:10:00] Left versus right. Dialing effective dialing, full manipulation wheel isolation, manipulation conclusion in summary. And then there are two appendix videos. One is accessing the community and the other is setting up your practice Lock. So link to that full playlist will be in the show notes. Uh, when I get some free time, I plan on watching him all my. 

[00:10:22] And also over on Twitter, Jeff Moss posted a link to a video called locksmithing for the door frame and hardware distributor. A primer. The fresh video was kind of an announcement video saying they're going to be releasing one video a week for 32 weeks. The video series is primarily focused towards the, uh, door hardware door installer type, but it does have practical. 

[00:10:49] Subjects that will be handy to any Locksports or Lock Smith. Wannabe. The upcoming scheduled titles are introduction. What is master king pinning charts, expansion specification dividing the key, understanding the KBA standard progression format standard key coding system levels of keying master king reduces key security sequence of progression the Dayton. 

[00:11:17] Multiplex keyways key conference submittals and governing documents. How to transmit secure information to your client methods of progression Maison king cross king master key system and maintenance. What makes a good master key parody, construction king record keeping interchangeable core, both small and large format keying software. 

[00:11:47] AHC two to zero exam prep, locksmithing questions, a LOA, some of the most famous people, no one has ever heard of a LOA, credentials and conclusion. So I will have a link to the first video in the show notes. And you can go from there to subscribe to the channel. If you want to watch the rest of the series, I would expect I didn't immediately see a playlist yet, but when I checked the first video was the first one out. 

[00:12:19] Moving on to Lock Pickers United belts. This week, we have a new brown belt on Reddit. How, how Gabe earned brown, congratulations to you. And we have a new black belt announcement on the discord says let's welcome the first black belt of the year to the. So at least has picked the Dom X twin star asset twin combi, Bab variant, Eva three S and these ice icon S K six extra code. 

[00:12:47] He impression day lock and manipulated a group, two safe dial for his epic quests. Congratulations to you least nicely done. For those of you not already familiar with the Lock Pickers United belt system, you can find out more on the official. On Reddit. Also, there are links to the official page and some videos that explain how the system works in the show notes of every episode of The Lock Sportscast. 

[00:13:12] So you can always go find the links you need to find out more there. And with that, it's time to take a quick break. Say thank you to the people that made this episode possible. I'd like to thank the newest patron bare bones locked. And if you're not familiar with bare bones, lockpicking go back and listen to the previous couple of episodes. 

[00:13:31] Bare bones lock picking is new pick maker and distributor in Australia that, uh, several of the Aussie pickers have been talking about their link will be in the show notes under the sales section, cause they currently have a sale going on on their site with that. Producers for this episode, starting with the Patrion subscribers are Panda-Frog Michael Gillcrest Starrylock William's brain Dave, to be deciphered Liibans Locksports Journey, pat from uncensored tactical through your records and coach Chirael Pattycakes. 

[00:14:05] Dr. Hug, master Clayton Howard AKA cool tune MOG John Locke, rat yoke. Mr. Picker. Thank you. Lock Pickers. Real tater JHP picking bare bones. Lockpicking chief content producer for this episode is. Other content producers for this episode, beanie a to Z or good guy. Chirael correct jeans. Jeff Moss, Joshua Gonzales, Michael Panda-Frog pupper rowboat pocket, woman, rain, rubber band, and Tony Vannelli. 

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[00:16:05] Uh, you can also submit feedback to the Locksports guest.com through the same methods or through Locksports gas.com/contact. That feedback can be confidential if you want, or I can share it on the show. That's your choice. You're welcome to submit a note, video or audio recording, just please keep it reasonable length, polite working family safe, no politics, no drama. 

[00:16:25] Going back to the American key supply page for a quick locksmith story this week, this one was sent in by a locksmith known as our. I said the craziest experience. There are many, they know more than we do example opening a Ford Explorer easy, right? While the customer insisted on telling me how to do it. 

[00:16:46] So after seeing he was not going to move away from the door, I put my tool away and went back to my van. Perfect timing. We had a huge deluge of cold rain after the rain slowed. He came out from under the trees to my van, as I knew he would and asked me to please do it. I did. And he was in his vehicle. 30 seconds later, every customer is an expert, right? 

[00:17:08] No matter what industry you work in, you're always going to have those expert customers. Our first criminal story comes from beanie a to Z or good guys, Twitter feed. He posted about this story and I thought it was really cool. So heist at center city jewelry shop like part of a movie owner says this is from the Philadelphia Inquirer by Vinny. 

[00:17:30] The article says that nothing was going to stop these, these not a locked basement door, not two solid walls, not even an industrial grade safe. The thieves broke into time and gold. A shop in the heart of city center cleaning out about $250,000 of diamonds and fine jewelry. Danny has me hoes me. The store owner said it was like part of a movie. 

[00:17:53] It's just craziness who goes under. It's not like they're taking 50 million. They got what, a quarter of a million from me. He's talking like that. Small change, a quarter of a million dollars to an average American like me is a lot of money and will be really big motivation for anybody with criminal intent. 

[00:18:15] Evidently even the detectives told him that they were stunned by the length spans it's took to get in. Please said it was unclear precisely when the thieves hit the jewelry store. The owner discovered the damage about 9:30 AM and called the police immediately. According to him, the heist began@thenowdefunctburger.org, a kosher joint that closed a few months ago, somehow that these broke into that store's basement made their way to the first floor where they punched through a wall that the vacant storefront shares with four seasons cleaners. 

[00:18:48] From there, the crew walked to the opposite wall and repeated the process, busting another. Which led to time and gold, they reached through crack in nearby, safe and left without tripping a single alarm on their way out. They ripped out the cash register inside four seasons, which contained about a hundred dollars in change. 

[00:19:08] When the owner of four seasons opened his store at seven 30, he thought the ceiling had caved in crack drywall was everywhere. The owner of the jewelry store said, look where you are gesturing to the commercial corridor surrounding his business. This is the safest neighborhood ever. Uh, evidently not. 

[00:19:29] There's an ice cream shop next door, a family beauty salon beside it. and@theendoftheblockabovetheformerburger.org sets, Adeline a swanky second floor. He said he moved his store from broad street in Girard avenue, in north Philly a year and a half ago. He said, I thought I was coming to a better location. 

[00:19:52] It shows you how much I know an eerily similar incident happened a year ago at a shop operated by his friend on market street. He said, same memo, the thieves busted through a wall and ran off without an alarm sounding. Yeah, because. Uh, wall is just another obstacle that can be gone through if the motivation is there. 

[00:20:14] And it's actually, if it's not a somehow reinforced wall, dry wall and even wood paneling is not secure. And if you're in a commercial district with abandoned businesses, there's no neighbors there late at night to alert to somebody breaking in. So something extra, you need to think. If you're in a residential area, you might have residential people to alert, but evidently not. 

[00:20:42] If you look at the, a story about San Francisco's garage issue, people are not paying attention to what's going on in the street. They're sitting in their homes, watching TV, I guess, most of the time, the next story, Niagara police look to find rightful owners of stolen collector's items. This is from C H C h.com written by Shyla buys. 

[00:21:04] This is out of Niagara falls. Officers were in the area of main street and ferry street around 5:35 AM on January 1st, when they spotted a woman who was wanted by the police on an arrest warrant, getting into a vehicle with a male passenger, the woman was arrested as well as the man after police discovered he was breaking court ordered conditions. 

[00:21:24] Please search the man and the vehicle and located suspected crystal meth. Drug trafficking, paraphernalia pills, four cell phones, weapons, pepper spray, a Beretta pistol, a bolt cutter Lock packs, and various pieces of suspected stolen property. The suspect is facing numerous charges for weapons and drug trafficking. 

[00:21:47] Police are now trying to find the owners of the property seized during the arrest. The items include a large coin collection, collectors, spoons, cufflinks, and one and $2 bank notes that stopped being issued in 1898 and 1996 respectively. So it looks like people's prized. Collections are being pilfered by these criminals and they no indication if they were using the pics, but they had the pics in their possession. 

[00:22:18] So they qualify in. Potentially at least luck making criminals moving to the other side of the United States. The next story is out of California. Real life grinches arrested. This was published by the Amador county Sheriff's office on January 6th. They said on Christmas Eve Sheriff's deputies responded to three separate, but likely connected burglaries that occurred in the Amador Ridge Plaza in Martel. 

[00:22:48] When they arrived and they learned to businesses had been burglarized as well as a vehicle that was parked in the vicinity among the items stolen from the vehicles was a purse containing the vehicles, only car key, the owner's wallet and her credit card. Just a quick side note, never leave your purse with the car, key, your wallet and your credit card, just sitting in your car while you're not in it. 

[00:23:11] That seems like a really, really, really bad. Anyway, after taking initial reports to the owner of the burglarized vehicle reported that her stolen credit card had recently been used at another nearby business surveillance video was reviewed, which captured the suspect using the stolen credit card footage also showed the suspect's female accomplice and the vehicle they were driving a short time later. 

[00:23:35] Deputies located the vehicle parked at Harris Northern California casino. Harrah's security assisted deputies in locating the two systems. A search of their vehicle, yielded the stolen wallet and cocky a large quantity of methamphetamine, burglary tools, forged DMV documents, two driver's licenses, several financial documents, not belonging to either deputies later contacted the owners of the two driver's licenses, both of whom confirmed they too were victims of theft. 

[00:24:06] I see a common thread quite often in all of these stories. And that is the methamphetamine. Methamphetamine it over and over and over as I'm reading stories of thefts, methamphetamine, methamphetamine, methamphetamine, it really does ruin lives. Oh, and you may want to know why this was posted in lockpicking criminals. 

[00:24:27] If you watch the video version of this, the picture attached to the article shows some of the items that they seized. They had one of those emergency window glass breaking hammers in their. Also some cheap lockpicks intention tools shown on one side of the image and two clear plastic locks and what appears to be a master lock slightly off frame there. 

[00:24:52] So if they weren't actively picking locks already, they were training themselves to so they are lockpicking criminals moving on to sales, we have of course bare bones. Lockpicking who is now a patron of this. As their discounted prices on their site, no code required. Just look for the little sale icon in the corner of the photo of the product. 

[00:25:15] And that's at bare bones. lockpicking.com also over@southor.com through the 10th. So about the time you're hearing this, probably hopefully this gets out before then they are having 20% discount on all products, still with the code. Welcome 22 over hooligan keys.com 50 per cent. Off with the. Make 2022 better through January, 2022. 

[00:25:41] We have the master lock surplus sale, some stuff up to 50% off. Yes, that's five 0%. Maths luck Pitt is still having a sale on custom picks. So you can head over to Matt Lock, pitt.com. Over at 3d Locksports 10% off the code LS cast 10 that's 3d Locksports dot com. All your 3d printed lockpicking accessories can be found there. 

[00:26:07] Make a locks has 15% of the code by maaco@maacolocks.com don't know when those expire and the same goes for UK Lock. That's 10% off of the code GIF, no known expiration. It's a UK Lock Pickers dot co.uk. Moving on to giveaways. Panda-Frog hashtag speed Ava's giveaway has been extended due to limited entries. 

[00:26:34] So your odds are really good. If you get an entry in the rules, speed, pick any Lock and submit it to the speedlocks.org team. A valid speed pick will give you one entry. You only can get one. Use the hashtag speed Amos in the video title part, one of the giveaway now is scheduled to end January 31st. When the 10 entry limit is reached. 

[00:26:57] If not, the giveaway will be extended another month, 10 winners will be drawn after the. The winners will get one ABC 65, 20, and can compete in part two, which will be announced when everyone receives their EBIS 65 20, the Ava 65, 20 are all keyed alike and marked on the bottom. So if you want to know some of the things you might be able to win, go check out the video. 

[00:27:21] That's linked in the show notes, or just head over to Panda-Frog each tube channel and look for video English 2, 5, 1 to find out more. He does go over some of the. Prizes he has planned. So odds are really, really good. If you get an entry in have really, really good odds of getting picked for the final draw. 

[00:27:42] Also see, okay, suppliers has their weekly hashtag lockbox giveaways. They are locksmiths supply company, so they have lots of good prizes for the Locksports enthusiast or the locksmith, either one head over to CLK supplies. There's also a link in the show notes direct to the giveaway page. If you want to know. 

[00:28:02] I remember this show needs your support. So please send me any information you have. That's Locksports related anything at all, makes my job a lot easier and allows me to continue doing the show on these weeks when I don't have time to search it out myself at all. So I really want to thank all the producers for this. 

[00:28:18] Because this show would not have happened this week. If it hadn't been for them, I literally just had time to pull some real quick stories in and get the show done. Thank you very much. And keep it legal. .