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LSC_75 Lockpicking in High School 

[00:00:00] Welcome to The Lock Sportscast, your weekly source of Locksports news and sometimes interviews. This is episode 75 recorded November 6th, 2021. I'm your host, Charles Current in today's episode, teaching lockpicking in high school. First pick of the ASIO Beilock lockpicking forensics, where to buy Locksports. 

[00:00:17] Why you shouldn't pick locks, Hey, phone bandits and other criminals, meetups, sales, giveaways, and more 

[00:00:38] you could subscribe to the audio version of this show on most podcast apps and at The Lock Sportscast dot com. If you don't already have a podcasting app, you can find a podcasting 2.0 compatible app, new podcast apps.com. You can subscribe to the video version on YouTube or Odyssey links to stories discussed will be in the show notes. 

[00:00:56] You can always find full show notes with all the links at The Lock Sportscast dot com. First up in the news this week is a film being made called a locksmith featuring Ryan Philippi, Kate Bosworth, and thin rain. They film the locksmith follows Miller and expert locksmith fresh out of prison. After a job gone bad back home, he tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex girlfriend, Beth, who is now a police detective, determined to make a clean start. 

[00:01:23] He is forced to use the only skills he has as a gifted locksmith, but things soon get complicated after an unexpected kidnapping. And from there, take a tumultuous. I don't have high hopes for anything coming out of Hollywood about locksmiths and lockpicking, but might be entertaining, who knows. And I Fisk pointed me to a website called The Lock judge. 

[00:01:47] The site has a series of articles on different types of locks, door locks, bike locks, padlocks, et cetera. It's pretty well done. And while I don't agree with all of the choices, like the choice of professional Pickers, The author clearly put some research and thought into the choices, unlike most and lock lockpicking ranking articles that I've read. 

[00:02:08] That's demonstrated by the inclusion of rat yolk picks in the best lockpick section. And he even has some luck picking lawyer recommendations in some of the sections. So it might be worth a read for those of you who are interested first up in community news, we have what appears to be the first public pick of the ASIO Beilock by do not duplicate. 

[00:02:29] It is a government issued lock has staggered pins and multiple false gates per pin. So check out the link in the show notes. If you want to see that pick, head over and give, do not duplicate a big congratulations. And while you're at it, you might want to subscribe to the channel. Looks like that channel only has 13 subscribers at the moment. 

[00:02:47] So could use a little more help there, head over and check it out. And we have a story out of Marquette, Michigan written by Mary Lee for TVC. Upper peninsula high school students participate in first ever Yooper con over 300 upper Michigan high school students learn unique cyber security skills. 

[00:03:06] Thursday, the upper peninsula cyber Institute held its first ever Yooper con in Northern center. Ballrooms the students from 15 upper peninsula high schools learn skills, including lockpicking cyber defense and Python. Computer programming. Students rotated through four of seven classes throughout the day. 

[00:03:26] IUPY cyber Institute, director, Doug Miller hopes to encourage students to think about their features. Miller says it's all about trying to get the kids excited about this as a career that they can do this. Every one of the students here is in a position where they have the opportunity to explore this, if they want to pursue it. 

[00:03:42] And during lunch, the high school students heard from a cyber security panel of NMU students. So pretty cool teaching lockpicking and cybersecurity skills to high school. And then I Fisk sent in a website called lockpicking forensics. It looks like the site hasn't been updated in a while, but it does have quite a bit of information on it. 

[00:04:04] And the description says lockpicking forensics.com is dedicated to the science and study of forensic locksmithing. The site has information that will help determine method of entry, identify tool marks and techniques, chairman skill, level of attackers preserve, collect, and protect evidence, maintain a clean forensic work. 

[00:04:23] Organize and write investigative reports. So it looks like it has a lot of good information. However, like I said, it hasn't been updated since 2012 as far as I can tell. So if you are curious about lockpicking forensics might be an interesting site to check out, pick up a few tips. And in credit, Mike informed me that he has created a new site called where to buy locks in Canada, the site descriptions. 

[00:04:48] As a Canadian, it can be difficult to find those sweet deals on locks that are American and European Pickers seem to find in their country. This list is an attempt to gather Canadian shops and other vendors that Canadians should check out when purchasing new locks, picks or other equipment to be on the list. 

[00:05:02] Product prices must be in Canadian dollars and items must be shippable to Canada for a reasonable price. Ideally, all products will be shipped from within Canada and there are no affiliate links on this page. So if you're in Canada and you've been looking for a good place to purchase locks or lock, picking tools, you can check that out. 

[00:05:22] And the link will be in the show notes. And I came across this story from the union. It's titled hand-me-down Locksports hobby and online. Robert would take her received an old Yale brand Lock from his father, a gift that led to a collection of historic padlocks and keys, and grew into an avocation beyond that of a mere hobbyist. 

[00:05:44] After designing a website for a local locksmith seven years ago, Whitaker's initial interest evolved into an enthusiasm for lockpicking enthusiasm runs high among the Locksports community, a term they use to differentiate themselves from locksmith and nefarious offenders engaged in criminal enterprise. 

[00:06:00] It gave rise to an international sport group. Locksports international in July of 2005, which solidified the term within the community. The core of the philosophical belief of those involved in Locksports is a conviction that they are responsible for full disclosure and are obligated to accept that anyone who picks locks does so on locks only he or she owned or on other locks, an individual obtains consent from the rightful. 

[00:06:26] Despite the mental stimulation. After a time, it became a little monotonous Whitaker said when his father passed along an old Yale lock found mostly on the east coast. Whitaker's enthusiasm was renewed and diverted toward collecting and showing historic pieces. It was then he transitioned into vintage LA collecting, collaborating with his longtime partner. 

[00:06:46] The partners decided to call themselves the Whitaker, CAC, Yale collect. Quicker says we co-own the locks and we both enjoy and actively collect the pieces. Whitaker emphasized that there is an unspoken set of ethics among lock enthusiasts. He says The Lock spark community strives to be very respectful. 

[00:07:07] It's a gentleman's agreement towards other people's locks. And we do not use our professional skills in an unauthorized manner. Locksports is full of some really neat people and encompasses various historical industries of railroads, prisons, and hood. And I can't agree with more than what that statement everybody I've come across is really, really cool. 

[00:07:25] If you want to check out the article, the link will be in the show notes. There are some really cool pictures of old Lock, some of the collection in the article, so recommend checking it out and over on Twitter. Boris, I'm not even gonna try to pronounce your last name, Boyce. Uh, he's at Z B Z N on Twitter. 

[00:07:45] Put up a tweet, said my cutaway, big 3d printed lock is finally. And it looks pretty cool. It's a, it's a pretty big size. It's about hand sized, 3d printed cutaway demonstration Lock. And he provides a link to the model on Thingiverse, which I followed and checking out his profile on Thingiverse reveals even more lock related designs. 

[00:08:09] He's got several different printable. Padlocked designs, including a pancake padlock, which is a 3d printable version of the famous six lever champion pancake Lock. He has Euro cylinder cutaway holder, and the description says, have you seen Lochner make a cutaway without any power tools here and link to the video I did and tried to do this at home. 

[00:08:33] The cuts were crooked and lame. I designed this holder to make the cuts completely straight and the line. Pretty cool. Little idea. I like that one. Okay. Then a pinning box, two different versions of disc detainer pick handles and a front loader all on his profile on Thingiverse. I will have a link to that in the show notes and over on Reddit, Mr. 

[00:08:55] Pickers put up a post 0.01, nine inch red heart and turtle shell IPA short hook. It says the turtle shell IPA is rare and hard to get, but I love how it turns out. Hard to work with too. It's Bertel one cutting, but worth it and wow. Just amazing, beautiful work. I can't even describe it. So please just follow the link or go check him out on Reddit. 

[00:09:22] It's Mr. Picker, M R P I C K. You are Mr. Pecker. Amazing custom pick work. I hadn't seen his posts before, but wow. Definitely worth checking out and over on. One of the K one locks, Twitter profiles has been compromised evidently. So K one locks using the account at underscore K one locks said my other page at K one, underscore locks has been compromised. 

[00:09:52] This is my new Twitter account. And please check me out every Saturday, 8:00 AM Pacific standard time. And with a link to his YouTube. So if you are following the old channel and you're seeing a bunch of spam posts over there, which is what appears to have happened, that is why check out the new page, which is at underscore K one locks, not at K one underscore locks. 

[00:10:19] Anyway, just I let everybody know. And I saw an announcement on the Lock Pickers, United discord that they are getting ready to start up the charity raffle again for this year. And are looking for a few people to volunteer, to help out with some of the administrative tasks. So if you're interested, you can head over there and let them know, just look in the announcement section. 

[00:10:40] And you should know that if you decide to join the team and help out, you will not be allowed to participate in the raffle. It's. But it looks like last year they raised $44,150 total. So it would be nice to have a really good turnout like that or better this year. So head over and check out and see if you can help take the load off a little bit for videos this week. 

[00:11:05] We'll start off with the top 10 reasons why you shouldn't pick locks by lock newb. The description says clearly picking is awesome and a skill. I want everyone to know. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't come with its own risks. Here are my top 10 things to look out for when lockpicking, so you don't make the same mistakes I have. 

[00:11:27] And I think it's an important video, especially for newer Pickers. I see a lot of people really blow off the, you shouldn't pick a lock in use rule, and most of the time you'll get away with it. It's going to be just fine. But every once in a while, something will go wrong and you could damage that lock and keep it from being used. 

[00:11:46] So this video goes over. A lot of the reasons locks can be damaged from picking or gutting and other things. So something worth checking out. And I think a good one to share with new users who don't understand why that rule is in place and after sharing multiple videos last week about the Banham lock lock lockpicking legend, put out a video called Banham temple cross section Lock Pickers. 

[00:12:12] So this is another one of his videos where he cut a Lock in half as a cross section, and this one is on the bottom and he shows how the pens work, how they interact in the core, definitely worth checking out. If you're planning on picking one of those course link in the show notes and Albert LaBelle made a video called how to make a disc detainer pick, start to finish the description. 

[00:12:36] I started making my own tips a few years ago and the hourglass shape has worked out best for me in defeating many distance locks. The video shows him taking the ejector pins that most people buy and working them down to a working disc detainer tip from start to finish showing the before and after. So if you are into disc detainer picking and you have, especially if you have a special. 

[00:13:04] Tool and you're having problems with those tips breaking. Then this might be worth checking out. And Mr. Black magic made a video on the Cod key lock says, , this is a 24 pin dimple lock with a split core. And I really, really long key, but he demonstrates how the fact that they have the split core actually provides a opportunity for an easier. 

[00:13:31] With a special tension tool he made in a long pick. He is able to pick just the back core to get the lock open shows you the tools he used in how he goes about it. So worth checking out on the meetups. We have lock camp at Lockhart state park in Lockhart, Texas, November 12th through the 14th. And then we have hack in the box cyber week. 

[00:13:55] This is from a press release that came across my desk. It says Abu Dubai is disrupt. Ady brings hack in the box cyber week back. It says, following a hugely successful packing the box cyber week event in Abu Dubai in 2019 disrupt Ady brings back the event to the UAE Capitol where the world's best thinkers and cybersecurity experts will come together in a five day hybrid event from member 21st through the 25th, 2020. 

[00:14:24] It looks like it is split into a security conference on the 24th and 25th and training labs on the 21st to the 24th, featuring 32 of the world's best subject matter experts. Speaking across four vertical tracks security exhibition is open to the public featuring IOT hacking challenges, wireless security packet capture contests lockpicking classes, car hacking workshops, AI related demos and hardware focused challenges. 

[00:14:53] So that will be in Abu Dubai, the UAE on the 21st through the 25th of November link in the show notes to the press release. I don't have a website. They didn't link to it for some reason 

[00:15:11] in Lock Pickers, United belts. This week, we have two new purple belts. We have H eight red flip and karma in brown. We have drama. And in red, we have memorials and then we have a black belt announcement as well. It says, please put your fingers to work congratulating lock affinity on making it to black belt. 

[00:15:34] He has picked the asset twin Eva, three CAS, and he used a beautiful homemade DD pick to open the, a classic and amyloid profile. Congratulations to all of you. Very, very well done and keep up the grades. And now it's time to say thank you to the people that made this episode possible. Start with the Patrion subscribers we have. 

[00:15:58] Panda-Frog Michael Gillcrest, Starrylock Williams brain at Dave to be decipher to pat from on center tactical pH picker at three records and a coach REL Patty cakes, Dr. Hog master Clayton Howard AKA cool tune mug, John Locke, Rocky Oak. Mr. Pickers, cranky Lock Pickers. Real tater JHP. Chief content producer for this episode is I Fisk other comp 10 producers are artichoke 2000. 

[00:16:22] Chirael Dr. Hog master. Good guy, AKA B and a to Z in credit. Mike Joe picks Joshua Gonzales, Michael Gilchrist, Mr. Black magic and Tony Borrelli. Thank you to all of you for your. And remember this show is only possible because of the information and support sending them by the community. So if you value this podcast, please help support it by sending in your news links, events, giveaway information, anything you have this Locksports related that you think the community might enjoy knowing about, just send it to podcasts at The Lock Sportscast dot com or any of the other methods listed on the. 

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[00:17:12] And if you want to support financially, you can donate via PayPal or subscribe on Patri. Patrons do get a private RSS feed that gets them the podcast episodes about a day early. So if you support the show with a donation or information I use in the show, I will give you credit in the show. And in the notes, quick reminder, I am still looking for Locksports Journey stories. 

[00:17:32] If you have a story of how you started in Locksports or how you journey through Locksports you think it's interesting or different, or just highlights how the community is? Be sure to send it in to me and I will get it on the air. And you're welcome to send feedback that feedback can be confidential or share it on the show, your choice. 

[00:17:53] If you want it to be shared in the show, you can send it a note, video or audio recording. Just make sure to keep it reasonable length, polite work, and family safe, no politics, no drama. And I will try to get it on the show for our Lock story this week. We have an article called Jurassic hacking from the design observer written by Paul Gansky. 

[00:18:13] It's an interesting article trying to compare modern day hacking to breaking and entering basically kind of strange, but I'm going to read, uh, selected sections of it here. As few crimes are, as unassumingly designed as. But now knots of computerized code can bring giants like target, Google, apple, or Sony to a standstill seizing their intimate data, credit cards, banking numbers, damning emails, and pictures, classified corporate strategies, et cetera, to protect themselves. 

[00:18:45] Corporations have long sought to understand who hackers are and how they design their. At and T was one of the earliest tech firms to lead the charge. In 1969, they compiled a pioneering stereotype of hackers and the burglar as tools they use to lose 4 million annually from the payphones at the time, the most widespread, valuable technological system and operation. 

[00:19:10] In Coyne, telephone larcenies, a confidential brochure, printed to aid police at T and T precisely illustrated how high tech crime was conducted. The publication is utterly unique and official guide to subterranean world. It offers a pre-digital Chronicle of hacking when perpetrators trafficked in lockpicks rather than lines of code. 

[00:19:31] The article says that only one in 45 hackers were apprehended on average and only one in 60 were ultimately convicted. And it says it continues 18 T framed hackers as a misguided fringe element. It characterization that persists into the present at and T divided hackers into two camps based upon how they design their instruments. 

[00:19:52] The first group composed of sophisticated Lock Pickers, employed plugs and vices, hammers, and grinders, and even spare steak knives in two minutes flat, these humdrum door pulling tools. Could pop open a payphones cash box without damage Lock Pickers ranked first on at, and T's most wanted list since they're hacking off and went undetected, allowing for an effortless getaway or repeated robberies, a Lock Pickers, penchant for wearing an attractive looking suit, carrying an attache case and leaving the scene in a nice looking car embedded there. 

[00:20:26] Slippery. By contrast Lock Pickers, brutish brethren, the strong arms were easily spotted wheeling, crowbars and logging hooks. These hackers rip payphones from their fixtures and carted them off prying into their cash boxes later in the backseat of a car or a hotel room. If this required too much patients strong arms opted for shootouts punching phones open with ball-bearing loaded construction guns. 

[00:20:50] Given their outrageous methods, strong arms had a much greater chance of being. Despite identifying hackers in the coin, telephone, larcenies, brochure, and detailing how they design their heists. 18 T admitted that these criminals would remain elusive like contemporary hacking groups, such as anonymous. 

[00:21:08] Most hackers in the 1960s worked inconspicuously as they ransacked a vastly dispersed technological system. Even with advanced knowledge of Lock Pickers and strong arms policing, every payphone would prove impossible. Only innovations in design at and T opined would deter hackers and staunch the millions they plundered each year as the 1960s ended at and T launched an array avail defensive strategies matching the invisibility of hackers. 

[00:21:35] First, the company's design team at bell labs in Murray hill. Forged coin relay shields. These galvanized sleeves of protection hidden within the cash boxes could withstand gunfire at close. Seeking evermore imperceptible types of security at and T engineered a talking payphone outfitted with a silent alarm hidden in the phone's cashbox. 

[00:21:56] This miniature century sent electronic alerts to 18 T personnel at even the slightest propagation from a locked. At their shrewdest 18 D designed crafted aluminum hoods for payphones. The rugged housings were simple ingenious way to prevent strong arms from peeling payphones off their fixtures with crowbars hit the design did not introduce itself as a security measure rather than bring unnecessary tension to criminal activity. 

[00:22:22] 18 T designers hoped most customers would think the hood was a formal weatherization, shielding, payphones foam, snow rain, and harsh sunlight. I'm not sure. I agree with the. Conflating of the term hacker with a common breaking and entering larceny crowbars and pry bars tearing payphones off the wall is not what I would call hacking you. 

[00:22:47] You might be able to make the link between lockpicking and hacking, but these are just common criminals, just trying to get a buck and, you know, not very sophisticated. A lot of them. I'm not sure I would, I would make that completion and the line that said at and T framed hackers as a misguided fringe element, a characteristic characterization that persists to the present. 

[00:23:12] Well, if we're talking about criminal hackers, yeah. They are a misguided fringe element of modern society. Most people aren't out there hacking, stealing, uh, doing ransomware stuff like. You have people out there trying to find vulnerabilities to turn them over to the manufacturers, the, the white hat style, and you have the criminal hackers. 

[00:23:35] Hecker is a pretty broad term. I'm not sure it really fits here. Anyway. Let me know what you think. In criminal news, we have an article out of Chicago by CBS Chicago, north side condo building residents alarmed by mail thefts, apparently committed using a master key. It says one key fits. And it's a big problem for residents of a Chicago condo building, where people keep having their mail stolen. 

[00:24:02] Thieves have been captured on surveillance video using a key that is supposed to be post office only property postal carriers use master key to access mailboxes all at once in a multiunit building. So when the residents of Claiborne corridor area condo building cut to non-residents rifling through all 40 mailboxes, it sounded like. 

[00:24:23] Condo board member. John Crenshaw says clearly they have access through a master postal key is the only way you can get in. If you don't have a key fob to our building, if you had a key fob to our building, we would have been able to track where that file came from. They say their building is not easy to enter. 

[00:24:43] The front door is locked with the buzzer and the mail room is locked. The article goes on to say, meanwhile, this is just the latest in a string of stories we have done on these using a master postal key to steal mail from apartment buildings. Crenshaw said, victims have filed complaints with the post office. 

[00:24:59] The post office spokeswoman said she has given the information to the theft department and, and all complaints are investigated. So if somebody did in fact steal or copy somehow a postal master key, then. Yeah, everybody who is required to use that key is now vulnerable. That's uh, one of the downsides of having a backdoor in your security system, think about that. 

[00:25:27] When you're talking on cybersecurity, do you really want the government to build in a back door? Then? All it takes is one person with the right key and they have access to everything. The next story is out of Spain, Spanish police arrest, 12, four kidnap and torture of Belgian citizen over drug theft. It says on June 1st five hooded individuals accosted a Belgian citizen as he was about to get into his car in a Southern Spanish city of Marbella, armed to the teeth. 

[00:25:56] They forcibly took him to a rural house about 30 kilometers north and held him for ransom for five days until the police secured his room. Kidnappers prevented their victim from sleeping during the entire time that he was in their power. They also beat him repeatedly and tried to trigger hypothermia by covering his body with ice bags than pointing a fan at him. 

[00:26:17] According to national police, the kidnapping was tied to the theft of 1.5 million euros in a drug shipment, which was stolen from one of the members of the gang. This is the same amount of money that the kidnappers were asking the victim's family for in exchange for his. Instead the relatives contacted law enforcement. 

[00:26:37] Three months later, the police arrested the perpetrators four French nationals and eight Spanish citizens between the ages of 19 and 51. They were all members of a drug smuggling organization. Four of them have been sent to prison according to investigators at the national polices drug and organized crime unit. 

[00:26:56] The members of the gang have long records that include violent crimes, drug trafficking, and armed services. On September 15th, the police sent out more than 70 officers to their residences and made 12 arrests searches conducted during the raid yielded high-tech equipment, such as geolocation devices, frequency inhibitors, several drones and spy cameras. 

[00:27:17] Officers also found key copying machines, lock picks, balaclavas binoculars, luxury watches, and three vehicles and cash. So a drug trafficking ring, but a also. Looks like they have a interesting key copying machines and lockpicks so wonder what they're using those for. Moving on to sales. Think peterson.com still has their clothes out on their pics with the hydrometer rubber handles. 

[00:27:45] So you can go over there and get a deal on those mats lock pit. The sale still appears to be up as of this recording. 3d Locksports dot com 10% off with the code LS cast 10 Maaco locks.com 15% off with the code by Maaco, UK Lock Pickers dot co.uk, 10% off with the code gift for giveaways. We have the same as last week. 

[00:28:14] We have Joe picks purple belt and one harvest subscriber almost. Rules post a video using the hashtag Joe Pickers, double giveaway, pick a Lock and tell him an interesting story about you and Locksports. And after posting the video, get a bonus entry by sharing the contest and taking him somewhere on social media. 

[00:28:36] I will have a link to his video in the show notes with all of the rules Dr. Hogg master has the Dr. Hog masters assess Quinn scriber. Pick a lock wrong giveaway of dimple pixel. What a name, uh, rules on that to be entered post a video of you picking a lock wrong creative interpretations of this description are welcome. 

[00:29:01] Use the hashtag squint sent scriber in the title of your video. And that one runs till sometime in November. It doesn't say exactly when. So I'm just trying to make sure I don't see the announcement that it's over video before I post. CLK supplies does their hashtag lockbox giveaway every week. So check that out. 

[00:29:24] If you're into winning prizes and giveaways, remember to send me any information you have that's Locksports related anything at all. Even if you don't think it's important or you think it's so big that everybody else has sent it to me. And I've obviously seen it myself, truth is I probably. I don't have a whole lot of time to research for this show. 

[00:29:42] I rely a lot on you guys sending in your information and letting me know what's going on in your parts of the community. So keep it up and thank you to everyone. Remember to keep it legal. .