 Okay, so this is going to be black hat locksmithing in case you've been living on another planet for the last 10 years We'll know the difference between black hat and white hat, right? Yeah, no Okay, well if you don't a black hat is someone in the digital world who uses their skills for bad free will basically interfere Its purposes and a white hat is someone who uses them for ethical reasons to help people not steal from All right, so I'm Matt Smith. Otherwise known as Huxley pig from a lot of popular internet forums Start off my career as software developer in cobalt of all things which makes me sound like 80 But I'm led to believe this company still develop new things in cobalt even to this day Believe it or not, and I was a white a black hat and a white hat locksmith And now pretty much look for holes in anything digital Physical and when I make when I find a hole, I like to make a tool to exploit that hole And what you can see in the picture here. This is a lockfall towers So this is where all the magic happens if you like it's actually my man cave. It's my cellar But I don't live on my parents Right, so locksmiths are the good guys, right? not always Okay, so this is a Subject that I've very rarely seen broached before and I suppose there are good reasons for a lot of that so Hopefully I'm not going to be crossing the line into you know criminality We're gonna look at some high security locks later on and some prison breaks and some thievery and sort of thing So I'm not gonna be releasing any classified material That's not really my place, but I will be releasing stuff that I've never released for some my own work So I'd say it's not gonna be a lesson in how to steal And I'm not gonna be showing anyone else's stuff All right, so locks themselves are security devices, right? So they only exist in order to keep your valuable safe to stop people you don't want coming into your house So anyone with nefarious intent obviously is gonna have a real interest in getting through these things And it brings us back to the age-old adage that locks only keep honest people out Which by and large is true if someone wants to get through your lot badly enough then, you know They're gonna do that Or they'll smash your window So circa 4000 BC, this is like the first example of a pin tumble a lot from Egypt Now this question fascinates me could this lock have been picked? Well, yeah, it's wooden, right? Of course, it could have been picked, but was it picked in actuality? Well, that's hard to say so like if an archaeologist found say one of these keys here But it was only a bit of the key. They probably think it was a broken key not a lock pick But I posit that yeah, if people were smart enough to make these devices then there must have been other people around that was smart enough to Pick them right So black hats have been around ever since locks themselves in my opinion So can anyone think of any motivations? Why might someone want to pick a lock that doesn't belong to them? Treasureite theft, yeah Filthy cold Luca He's enjoying it, isn't he? And a lot of picking text brings with it a group of like unique problems So we can say for definite that most thefts are forced entry That's that's a definite but the exact amount that I've done by locksmithing means by locksmithing means I mean picking impression in bumping bypassing any of the techniques that a locksmith might use to get through your front door non-destructive and This figure of three to six percent Well, it's really hard to pin down like these are from various police forces. I found these figures and Does it include bypass Right, yes. Yes. Yes a non-destructive. Yeah, okay Impressioning well, we're gonna cover warded impression in later But the yes the gaze age that's the question and he's actually gonna be doing a talk on impressioning tomorrow on pinsumber impression In so it's basically a way of taking a blank key Going to the lock and then you put it in you file it and then at the end of it all You have a working key for that lock without any knowledge of the lock beforehand That's why impressioning is But the problem with locksmithing methods like this is that it leaves no Obvious sign there. It's actually happened right so if you come home and Your lock your door is open and the lock looks like it hasn't been touched. There's no signs forced entry You don't know what's happened like locksmithing methods do leave forensic traces But in order to find them you'd have to take the lock out You'd have to take it to a forensic locksmith that have to look at it under a microscope And there'd be telltale scratches and little marks that give away what happens But of course this only happens in the most high high profile of cases That's not gonna happen with like your average burglary. So that's gonna surf to keep this three to six percent numbered down, right? then you get the insurance issues you get the like age-old bit of advice delivered by people with Usually little to no legal training So if you come home and this scenario happens they say well lock the door kick the door in right or smash the Window give the insurance company something to go on so that they can say yeah, there's been a forced entry So otherwise they'll try and worm out of it, right? They'll try and say well you must have been negligent with you leaving at the keys or Maybe you just left it unlocked, right? And again that keeps this three to six percent number down Another unique problem you get with a lot picking theft is skimming so let's say you've got a parking meter and A local thief can pick the lock on this parking meter So instead of coming after the end of a busy day and emptying that parking meter completely What if the thief only takes five percent of what's in there and locks the lock back up again? This can really easily go under the radar. I can go and notice for years believe me And again that keeps this number down, right? And like I said earlier with the insurance blame often falls on the key holders So let's say you're the manager of this parking company You know that someone's been opening the locks You know that someone's been locking them back up and taking the money, right? So you first thought must be someone with the key, right? Or it must have been someone who had access to a key and copied it and again that keeps this number down so it's It's difficult okay, so all the motivations for a lot picking escape obviously I Don't think this guy can pit locks I might be doing him an injustice, but I don't think he's a scape went too well as evidence by the People taking pictures of him stuck in the wall And the alphabet super authorities, right? KGB, MIA, you know those things They've been into lockpicking ever since they've existed, right? Recently there's been some stars is that tools that have been declassified or they've come to the fore because obviously the stars He don't exist anymore, right? and some of their tools are the most intricate and beautifully designed things I've ever seen they're like Pieces of art within their own right. Yes me And they should be right because these guys have got all of our money loads of our money to spend on creating the very best designs the very best manufacturing techniques Which is a shame right because like I say these things are often works of art, but because of the very nature You you very rarely yet to see them, which is why the stars is tools are so good that they've come out And if you want that I don't include the stars is tools in this talk But like I can point you in the right direction come and find me in the lockpicking village If you want to know more about any of this stuff so like the alphabet super authorities is going to want to Getting to your property whatever using two methods surreptitious or covert. So let's get this the right way around Covert is the one who's talking about earlier that leaves tiny traces, but only if you look at it through a microscope Surreptitious, however, this is as if the key itself has been used It's as if you know nothing untoward has happened and tools that are surreptitious entry like the holy grail of the alphabet soup agencies and It brings the question right what are these guys anyway the black hat or the white hat or the gray hat? You know, it's like this shifting line I mean it depends on what your nationality political motivations You know, it's can be hard to say I can attest to this as well another motivation for a lot picking thefts can just be challenge right or bored I mean, there's been plenty of examples throughout history where people have just done it because They were bored right and There's always going to be some other crazy reason why someone wants to pick a lock that doesn't belong to them, right? Look at the teeth on that thing But seriously if you were like a medieval Casanova you'd need to know how to get through these things, right? Otherwise, it's gonna get pretty uncomfortable Okay, so confessions good for the soul. So here we go This depicts confession. She didn't know So in a formal life My intentions for getting into lockpicking probably weren't entirely virtuous should we say And I had a particular passion for vending machines. Okay, these were like I saw it's a low-hanging fruit, right? I was never interested in taking off people This seemed perfect too good to be true But it's okay. It's in came about the challenge to me of actually opening these things and I came over to the good side And that's the color of my hat was changed I shouldn't have to say this right, but I'm gonna say this don't break into vending machines or car parking meters Okay, standard disclaimer and just to underline this right there's a guy last year who was breaking into parking meters and He wasn't using locksmithing methods, but he most certainly was stealing the money and He got a suspended sentence, but in a first of its kind He got a five-year injunction banning him from going near any coin-operated machines at all And it came with a load of ludicrous sending caveats So like if he needed to go on holiday to an airport and he needed to park his car Then he could go up to the machine But only once for 30 seconds and he couldn't return to the machine for another four hours and it's lots of silly things like this But this could make life really impractical, right? You couldn't use the self-service at Tesco, right? Oh, we're in Surrey, waitrose Don't let it be here, right? Enough of the disclaimer Okay, so here's some some lock-picking thieves Deacon Brody, he was in Edinburgh, his flora it was in the mid-18th century Apparently Robert Louis Stevenson based Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on this guy Because during the day as you can see he was a very respectable town councillor pillar of the community this guy But by night Deacon Brody changed. He was also a talented locksmith Which was good, right? Because his high status in society got him jobs either servicing or installing rich people's locks So what he'd do is he'd put the locks in he'd make a copy of the key go home Finish the copy and come back that night and rob them blind So pretty much exclusively he was going to be up against what we call warded locks now This is pretty much defunct technology now And if you look about three rows down and four and fifth keys in you can see like the fat looking keys with the fat ends So if Brody didn't already have an impression or you know if you hadn't already copied the key It have used this method of impressioning. It's what this entails is taking the blank putting Some impressionable material on it either sort or wax or whatever and you'd insert it into the lock Turn it till it hit the wards. So it wouldn't go any for further And we took it out You'd have an impression of where you needed to file in order to make this key work Which is what I used to do. This is where the skeleton key terms come from Because you're removing as much metal as you can from that key and just leaving the bare minimum in order for it to operate So another one of Brody's favorite tricks was he'd walk around at him during the day and He'd go into workshops and talk to the workmen making idle chit chat And he always have a blob of putty in his pocket And if an opportune moment arose it take a key that was hanging around taking impression of it in the putty Go home copy the key rob them blind that night So he's crime 3 went for 11 years one of the highlights he stole 800 pound from a bank Now he already had the key he installed the locks again You've got to realize how much 800 pound was back in the 18th century, right? This was a lot of money now Brody was very busy he At night time he lost fortunes on cock fighting gambling. He had a wife two mistresses six children So and he was already wealthy. His dad had left him a lot of money. He had the temerity to steal the ceremonial mace from Edinburgh University Now I think it was never a turn right so I can't find a picture of it This isn't the mace and that's not deacon brody, but it is a ceremonial mace, okay? So things started to unravel for him when he's gang decided to rob the revenues of Scotland now What this was in practicality was the taxes that all the Scottish people had been paying they were held in the customs Well, the exile is building So he's gang tried to burgle it. It was bungled and they only got away with 16 pound or something But further on and by two months later, I think two of the gang got arrested for different things And as it happens they never breathed a word about Brody to the police But Brody didn't know this and he got spooked when he heard that they'd been arrested And so he fled and that did bring suspicion upon him Ultimately he was found carrying in a cupboard in a hotel in Holland He was brought back to Edinburgh hanging in front of 40,000 people after a 21 hour trial But it's not all about right. He's got a couple of pubs named after him and a cafe So Is have you been there? Cheers deacon Okay, I really like this guy the phone ranger This is the best picture I could find of him. I'm sorry. So James Clark an American guy a tool maker and die maker from Ohio He was active from 81 to 88 and specifically he stole from pay phones So at some point during his career thought I've had enough for making tools. I'm gonna rob telephones instead He used James Bell as a pseudonym when he used to go into CD motels And he's rescued by the feds in his caravan. He went quietly in the end So this is the telephones he was robbing on the left on the right is an example of the lock We're gonna look at this a little more closer now the Western Electric 30c So apparently Western Electric spent a million dollars developing this thing so about the 70s. Yeah, that's a lot of money This was the days of the six million dollar man. So this gets you what he's a leg You know, this was like the height of technology really So one of the problems is the key ways wiggly we don't need to go into that too much eight levers each of the levers has false gates but We can forget about all this on the spring really this isn't what makes the lock secure lots of locks have these features The crowning glory of this thing's the lever grabber. Okay, so in the top left hand corner You can see like this tooth to contraption. That's the lever grabber. So as you turn the key The levers move up to the heights and when the key gets to about 12 o'clock this lever grabber engages So on the right-hand side, we can see that the grabbers engaged. You can see them notches at the top of the levers that Sort of eating into so at that point the levers are immobile. You can't move them And it's only after that that the stump gets pushed into the levers or not So normal lock-picking theory tell us that you tension the lock and this stump is going to be pushing against the levers And you pick the levers Against this stump and the feedback from that tells you what's happening inside the lock Well, that's impossible with this because before that can ever happen the locks are remobilized James Clark could pick them which tells you what a massive achievement. This was He's seven year crimes break up with 32 of America's 50 states Go into the feds. He likes spent somewhere in the East and winter in the West Apparently went up and down in state 40 and he just branch off to towns either side of it and go up and down So as he's crime spree game and meant to me on America's most wanted twice there was $25,000 reward for his arrest And I say this guy's the only man who has ever picked this lock allegedly. I've got an example of the lock here It's okay So if any of you think you can think of a way to pick this I would be really interested I can't pick it and I've tried there's a couple of techniques that might work But there's not enough hours in a lifetime, right But the feds can say that he was the only guy to pick them because they forensically examined every single telephone lock And all of them left distinctive scratches were allegedly from his tool Which was made from piano wire. I've also heard other reports that it was actually quite Sophisticated but piano wire seems to smack of simplicity and I think it probably was simple the best ideas are always the simplest, right? But frustratingly, yeah, we have never seen the tool ever the feds never released it Clark If he's still alive it'd be in his late 70s and there's no reason to suggest he's not taking the secret to his grave But these are the best kind of puzzles, right because you know there's a solution. You've just got to find it So different reports say you earned 400 grand to over a million dollars 57 K to 140 K a year which isn't a bad earning in change So let's say this guy earn a million dollars. That's four million quarters, which I'm reliably informed looks like this That is just Incredible, right? Where would you keep all that? So you got sentenced to three consecutive one-year term, so you got three years in total on a plea bargain Funny other than that, he was ordered to repay 802 dollars 50 cents back to oh, oh, hey pal So if we say he robbed a million and it cost them a million they're doing pretty badly out of this deal, right? Okay, let's look at some prison escapes. We all are prison escapes, don't we? So all of this this was like for sale on eBay recently so this This attests to the ingenuity of man Like you've got picks and stuff made here from what forks and spoons and buttons and wire and you know all manner of things I've heard of a lot picking tools in prison being made out of bars of soap and Sporks plastic sporks, you know So let's go back in time. Mr. Doody. I don't know his first name and this isn't him believe it or not But I couldn't find a picture so this guy invented a lock is from Wolfhampton And he's locked you something called secret principle now all that means is there was a secret to open it So in this case you put the key in and if you turn the key nothing had happened You'd have to turn the key move it to a specific position Then it would go in again, and then it would work like the normal key And this is otherwise known as security through obscurity In the 1800s, this might have been a great model But in today's internet days, you know a secret can be across the internet in seconds. It's a pretty crappy model now He happened to service the jails and stuff at the locks and stuff for jail Sorry, which was fortunate because he ended up being locked up there eight years later So he picked his way out But he wasn't on the run for long. He feared recriminations it for his family and also We thought he'd get a long sentence if he was caught while on the run, which he probably would have right So he picked his way back into prison Story goes that The warden came around in the morning to the headcount and he was sitting in his cell again as if nothing had happened And we can't talk about jailbreakers without talking about Jack Shepard, right? We're gonna come into modern times after this guy It's okay So this guy was only 22 when he was hanged eventually He was a general vagabond ruffian scoundrel He was only little five four inches But he was renowned for breaking through strong room doors and for going through walls breaking through walls and seemingly impossible Things to break through solid oak floorboards Gentleman Jack as he was with a nice name His first escape was my favorite escape from jail four times from the hangman's noose In fact, he was sentenced to death all four times, but I like his first one best So there were some metal bars on the window and he managed to pry one of these metal bars loose And he used that to go through the ceiling went through some floorboards But then when he got up to one of the high windows, you know, he couldn't get down to the ground So what what did Jack do? This is like the archetypal prison escape. Come on. What did Jack do? Anyone know? Can anyone think? Brilliant. Yes, this is the first ever recorded example I can find of this so future prison escapes Oh a lot to Jack He went back to his cell. He tore up strips from his bed sheets. He made it into a rope Jack the lad as he was also known Second prison escape was dubbed the sex and prison sexiest prison break of all time so his misses Edgeworth best came to visit him in jail and The jail is recognized there is one of the his accomplices so they threw her in with him But they didn't leave any bed sheets. They weren't gonna let Jack pull the same trick and yet he did he pulled the same trick So where did he get the material from? Of course, right So here's a cutting from a photograph at the time and I'm led to believe that this is actually a lot more modest Than it was in reality. She was pretty much naked. I think when she was lowered down Now the idea was for Jack to leave one of the bars in the window so we could anchor the rope to it But as it turns out best was a little more ample than that So she couldn't fit through and so he lowered it down himself But it didn't end well for Jack. I'm afraid the edges 22s hangs it's got four times and This is his hanging depicted from this These pictures here are the morbidly you can see To the gallows on the top one in the middle one He's been cut down and in the bottom on it seems like he's been held aloft on the crowd and some sort of bizarre Corpse crowd surfing ritual. I don't really know what was going on there But apparently there wasn't much left of it afterwards either the corpse which is which is nice, isn't it? Okay, Pretoria Jenkins and Lee Okay, they were political prisoners, right now put it in the commas because they were anti-apartheid But they were distributing using explosives, right? So They got sentenced to 8 and 12 years respectively, so there's 14 locked doors between them and freedom and They managed to make keys out of wood They mainly impression keys from wood and later on they did a couple of metal keys This is Lee or Jenkins. I don't really know And on the left here, we can see a couple of well the top two of the wooden keys the bottom two examples of the metal keys And there he is holding one of his wooden keys But you can have a wooden key that works perfect, right? And there's a problem getting out of a cell door Yeah, the dick can anyone think of why you wouldn't be able to use a key on the inside of a cell door There's no keyhole. Yeah, and so they had to devise this crazy crankshaft thing from a broom hanging up in the cell And here it is That's the end of it. So that's pretty ingenious, but this was just the first door, okay? That to go through another 13 doors after this and remember these guys weren't locksmiths before they went to prison it's just an astonishing achievement and Like I say, there was 14 doors so they'd get through one door and then the next night They'd get a bit further and the next night they'd get a bit further. So this wasn't one prison escape This was multiple multiple multiple prison escapes And these guys are still free. Oh, I left the Twizzle PowerPoint animation in I think we can call it a day. I didn't mean to do that. So I apologize right Bury my prison break Darwin Said Daniel. Hi, son Some other guy got convicted of killing a man because apparently wanted his rifles. So hell of a reason to kill someone, right? He already escaped once he pretended he was ill. He got transferred to the the prison at the hospital prison ward Guess how he escaped? Can anyone guess how he escaped? And I we've already seen it as a clue Yeah, of course again, apparently he's have an individual twist on it He's he's twined wires with the bedsheets as well. Thank you, Jack But later on anyway in his sentence he was transferred to bury my Darwin In there he met another inmate called Barker now He was a jeweler on the outside and he was a long-term inmate. So He'd been given certain privileges which bizarrely included jewelry making equipment, right? So he thought I know I'm gonna get this guy to make a key so I can escape but the real brilliant bit about the story is where he got the key from so Whenever anyone whenever anyone went to bury my prison, right? They were given like an induction book saying welcome to the prison. Here's what to do Here's not what to do on the cover of this book With a master keys to the prison That's a fail, right? That's a security fail So these both escaped Heights left a note saying this bird has flown in his cell Baker injured himself on getting over a wall on the outside. He was captured soon took a little longer to recapture Heis But he's now out is a landscape garden artist. This is an example of some of his artwork, should we say Okay, secret tools Hey, we're doing on time. Oh, wow. Awesome. Okay. So this is my favorite tool ever, right? It's For seven pin tumblers. It's for like the cheap ones. You can see on the right here Now this has been around for a long time right Since the 70s and it works by a method of self-impressioning. So what that means is You get the tool you put it in the lock and on the cheap and nasty ones you give it a wiggle and Sometimes within seconds, it'll open and even better, right? You can lock the collar down afterwards and use it as a key from then on or you can go and get the bit ins and say, okay This is a two. This is a four, etc. And go and actually make a key up You can also use it for SPP. So by that I mean single pin picking so You can put the tool in the lock and then push down on each of these little fingers So it's a really cool tool. It's close thing to a James Bond tool. I've ever seen it really is except for the actual James Bond tools that the Spooks have got But even 15 years ago, right? It was pretty rare that you'd find a tubular lock on the vending machine a cheap and nasty one So they decided to change the designs To fool this to foil this very tool. So this tool anyone can buy this tool This isn't secret but the modifications to the tool which I'm going to talk about are pretty rare. Well, I've never seen So first we're going to talk about this. This is a laptop like lock. I didn't have ever seen this Kensington The twist on this that defeats this very tool Can you see on the end of the key? I've circled it. There's like a nib And that nib lives inside of the red rectangle that you can see on the lock By the way, I've but the lock shouldn't look like this on your laptop This is one of my locks that I've butchered. So that that big gas shared of the ride ignore that Right. So this nib what it serves to do is it keeps a trap pin Down so if you come along with this tool, it's actually really cheap and nasty impressions really quickly But you'll go, oh, yeah, bring it up at the lock and it'll go around a little bit They go click and then this trap pin will fire up into this little hole this rectangle and from that point onwards the locks locked It's it's no matter how much you pick it or whatever or supposedly It's not budging and it's also colored red. It's meant to be like a Tampa Evident lock so if you come to it and see the little red But you know someone's been trying to pick it with this But can anyone see a way that you might be able to get around this? Right. Okay. Yeah, so copy the key. Yeah, just put something in the hole It's a matter of what it is could be paper. It could be a bit of metal. I call them Kensington adapters Can be anything right and Also, if you fire the trap pin, it's just on a spring so you can just push it back there And again put something in the hole and use this So this is like security through obscurity again, right someone sometimes, you know how it works. It's rubbish So this is another one another twist on this design Now how these got around it is the pins aren't in the same places as they are in here Now you can't get dedicated picks for this, but you can see in the middle picture. They added this shroud Now what that does it offers a little bit of drill resistance, but more than that it's to foil this pick again and You need a pick that's shaped similar to the bottom picture So it's got like, you know a thin arm and there was one of these a while ago From HPC they made it. I've not seen that for a while But again, it's very easy to get around as soon as you've got a tool that resembles the key that the neck Of the key at the bottom forget about it Oh Camelot system. All right, can anyone see what Camelot systems did Here to change the design from the regular standard pin The seven pin tubular lock I've highlighted it in red just in case Okay. Yeah, so they changed the circle to an oxy again. Okay a quantum leap forward in design lock design technology Or at least they think it is right So they changed the circle to an octagon Cunning, right? Now as it happens this locks rubbish. It's really bad tolerances You can single pin pick it and you can impression it using a tool which Hmm How do you think you might make a tool for that? You think maybe I could change the round bit for an octagonal bit Think maybe that would work Maybe yeah So it's obvious, right? That's all you need to do, but um, this tool doesn't exist and I was baffled by this. I was like what doesn't exist should exist, right? No So a while ago, right? I was on a forum and I just posted a list of locks that I wanted to make tools for as it happened Their lock happened to be in this list and that was it, right? I just said I would like to do this maybe some point in the future They didn't like this They got on to the forum owner threatened him with prosecution and subpoena if you didn't give up my address And the intention was to serve a cease and desist notice on me in order to stop get this potential future patent breach Okay So like that covers everything. Yeah potential future patent breach every patent that exists on the planet ever Yeah You could do that And then I found out they've done it before They've done it several times before in fact There's lock makers up down the country that have Tried to make the obvious tool tried to sell the obvious tool and the lawyers jump on them and say no no no Now see what they do it right to do it secure the lock. I understand why they do it But this is security through obscurity again. It's not a model that works in the 21st century. You've got the internet, right? Doesn't make any sense at all and it won't be smart if this lock wasn't everywhere, but it is it's everywhere it's cures Vending machines gambling machines We saw one the other day at McDonald's. They've got tablets now use this lock And like if it's taken us what one minute to work out what the tool is gonna look like you can bet that the Criminal gangs have got that far right and you think it went to court. They wouldn't have a leg to stand on right But they also patented the obvious tool publicly searchable patents say Now their intention or I was never to actually make this tool I believe it's a defensive patent purely So that if ever someone did make the tool they could say oh no no no you're gonna breach our patents on it And then I noticed this right and this is another publicly searchable database She can't read that it says not in force this patient was never actually granted So No, I haven't got a leg to stand on but that's not the point. Is it right the average toolmaker doesn't want a long expensive court battle And that's the reason I know some of these other guys Like okay, we'll just give in and stop selling it because they've got rich lawyers and The legality of it isn't really the point So like say this is an outdated protection method. This wouldn't fly in digital security, right? So let's say Microsoft bring out Windows 55 or whatever And any idiot that looks at it says oh, I can take an off-the-shelf product modify each the little bit and totally subvert security Now would Microsoft sue them or fix it? You know that patch it right that fix it So we want skewed through design not through obscurity There's big difference and there's actually been More of a collaboration recently between lock makers and the lock sport community where there's been a back-and-forth So someone finds an exploit and the makers will go. Okay. Thanks. We'll fix that And you know, it's it's it makes the thing more secure. Yeah, that's the idea But this doesn't this doesn't help anyone this doesn't make the tool depicts or immortal the lock This doesn't make the lock more secure at all. Does it this actually serves to keep it insecure? Doesn't help anyone I Feel better for that Okay, so this is another lock that I worked on a lot So in the 70s, right? There's this finished guy. This is a finished lock Abloy make fantastic locks. By the way, if you don't know what this lock is, this is the Abloy classic and It's been around nearly 110 years. So it stood the test of time to really skew a lock But back in the 70s, right? This finished pervert decided to make a tool for it Call a vanpele which is finished for contraption or thing in magic So prior to this in Finland in the Factory in Joensu. I'm sure I've pronounced that wrong There was a 1 million fin marks reward if you could pick this lock without prior knowledge of it and without damaging it That that disappeared after this But this was the first recorded example of anyone having picked this lock Every day of time. Okay, sweet. Okay, so we can go into what this finished pervert used to do, right? so it you'd pick the locks often on on young ladies front doors And what do is he'd go upstairs and he'd lie in wait under the bed and Often he wouldn't come out often. He'd just lie under that bed for days Sometimes he used to attack the women and stuff and he got put in prison, but Yeah, this is one of those other examples, right of why people want to pick locks So anyway, this led Abloy to change the design of the tool It made it so the front disc spanned freely and you couldn't use its tension the lock anymore And it worked and since then allegedly it gone unpicked So like when I heard about this, it was like a red rag to a ball, you know, I've got to pick this lock I've got to design something. I've got to make something that picks this lock right. It's like an ambition of mine So on and off six years R&D Design after design after design after design I'd say for a year in order to buy a million machine just so that I could make the Potential tool didn't even know who'd work or not, you know But what I'm trying to say here is there was a lot of time and effort invested into this on my behalf, right? And it worked. Whoa. Okay, brilliant. I made it. It's like the best that it gets for a lock tool maker mmm Yeah, without the million. You know what I actually Got in touch with Abloy recently to see if that still stood No, it's gone But it works right so I was I was super happy about this And I think it was three weeks. I got a message off someone. Oh, mate It's good to see your tools for sale on that popular locksmith supply website So no, I don't think it is. No, it is it is So I went and had a look and I pretty much see my tool looking back at me I don't know what heck in this be the kind of copied it in three weeks, right? No, that's not what happened apparently it had been developed for some alphabet soup agency eight years ago secretly and They saw it as an as an opportunity to declassify and sell it publicly because the secret was out at this point, right? Which is exactly what they did So this angered me right I'm not interested in making things that already exist who is right so I Was really super annoyed honestly But I should thank them really right. I didn't sue them. I didn't sue them and say shut up. That's not true It inspired me to make it better. Okay, which is Should go in my book So I'm actually going to finish up now with a previous unreleased video This is a secret tool of my own So you're not actually going to get to see the tool right? Sorry, but you get to see what it's capable of Okay, so this is me zero in the disc. This isn't the tool in the lock yet, but I'm going to pause it when it when it's in Okay, so we pause it there. We're on what? nine-and-a-half seconds say Let's see how long it takes. I know how long it takes. There we go. It's doing its magic. It's doing its magic It's doing its magic. I've paused it. It's doing its magic Okay, there it is lock open 13 seconds And that's what happens when you use up my tools. Don't do it is the moral of this story Honestly, I should thank them. I should thank them. This would never have happened if it wasn't for that Sorry I've got a good idea. Yeah, but Let's not go there and that's it. Thank you for listening. That was blackout locksmithing Questions shit, you know. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna be at the lock picking village So if anyone wants to come and chat or talk about any of the tools or anything else you can find me there after this, okay? You're all welcome. Hello. I have a question. I Apologize. Yeah, that's fine Arachiosity, how long did the original tool take to pick that exact lock? Okay. Yeah, so I didn't actually show the original tool. Did I but it's out there It's publicly out there, you know, anyone can go and see it on key picking or you know, it's on it's out there So the original tool depends on the skill of the user that is so like you do actually have to pick the lock Right and it can take anything from I don't know a couple of minutes up to half an hour Maybe it depends on the lock it depends on the skill of the user But as you can see that tool I just demonstrated takes no skill at all a child could do that. So cool Cool. Well done on that. Thank you Anymore for anymore? Why doesn't everyone use that phone booth lock which you said no one's picked Why doesn't everyone use it? well, okay for ages it was on America's pay phones and They've just updated they did they used it for 15 years or so, but I'm never updated it with medicos now Which actually on a secure as that lock, but you know, that's progress. I suppose I Products would you recommend? What product? Yeah, what is in what lock? Okay, so I don't think there's a lock on the planet that's unpickable Sorry Yeah, okay, so the MCS is one of those Mythically unpickable locks again. It's another one of my little pet locks. In fact, I love the MCS and I firmly believe it's doable and not even doable I firmly believe that the agents is out there already have tools for it The three cases simpler than the MCS that that that yeah, so you could pick that right now if you have the skill, you know what I mean, but There are also other tools that are going to open it like that, you know And and that goes for pretty much every lock on the planet just so you can sleep safely at night Any more questions What log to use on your front door I don't mind telling you it's an Ingersoll 10 lever and you're gonna be lucky to get through it I can't pick it. It's pick a ball, but I can't pick it and it's actually really good It's a question that I ask are the locksmiths because normally you get a pretty cool answer Ingersoll 10 lever There's another one in the side of the room No, there's a guy there Another question for me. What do you think is the next step in hardware security? Well, obviously, I it's going digital right, but that brings more problems and really it solves this I mean look at the digital security industry there's just so many holes in it right and Bringing that aspect into a physical security system brings with it a whole new raft of exploits So I think it's inevitable. It's gonna go that way just how secure it's gonna be. We'll wait and see, right? But yeah, it's going digital I do always think there's gonna be a place for physical security there, you know, there'll always be locks, right? I think Any more questions. Yes Hi, you said about the police locks and them obviously not wanting you to open them But what's the alternative because obviously it's gonna cost us a fortune to replace all the locks and As soon as the replace them, you'll just work out to get around that one. So, okay Yeah, so it's like this cat and mouse battle, isn't it? It's it's like it's like an arms race I suppose and I think that's inevitable with security. That's the that's the way things get better, right? And and so I welcome that. Yeah. Hell. Yeah, spend the money. Oh Yeah, that's always the thing, isn't it? It's always money against security, isn't it? It's that like a Joel Dilemma and If you want security, you have to pay, right? There's plenty of really bad cheap locks out there that you can put on your front door But you know, you'll get through them like that. If you want security, you got to pay for it I'm afraid. Yeah Did have you thought about putting a patent on your lockpicking? Okay? Yeah, that's a very good question Okay, so you saw the patent that The other company did Sure answer is no it costs me 400 pounds just to put a patent application in and ultimately It doesn't stop anyone from copying it anyway Like the Chinese they don't care if you've got a patent anyway, right? They copy lots and lots and lots of tools but Let's say someone did that. Let's say someone copied one of my tools You don't need a patent, right? If you can prove prior art, then you can prove that you have copyright on that tool Anyway, so if it ever came down to it, I think I'd go down that route because I can prove that I've Done x1z at you know x1z So no and the other thing about patents as well is that tool that was declassified after eight years There was no patent for that tool because they knew it was publicly searchable and they didn't want people to see it So often you won't get patents for tools like this Yeah, probably probably yeah, but I mean like I realized that They weren't having me on that this tool did really exist for the previous eight years It was just soul destroying that tool Is there a community of people designing better locks that are open source that are better designed? There is one that I know of yeah a guy called Michael Hoobler Did exactly that like the open source lock he called it and it was meant to be sort of a community based effort in order to get Like the ultimate lock That's the only one that I know of But you can find him on lock picking 101 LP 101 if you want to get into that I've not seen it. I don't know. I have no opinion. I didn't get involved. Sorry But how do I have involved it would have been awesome Are we done okay, well that'll do right. Thank you