Lock picking is defined by locksmiths as "the art of opening a lock without the key". There's many ways to accomplish this, but I'm specifically interested in using a lock pick set. Since locks vary ...

Professionally and academically speaking, I am a computer scientist, but I also enjoy lock picking as a hobby, so I thought I would share what knowledge I have with this. Before we start doing ...

Sure, many of us don’t hold our hair in place with bobby pins, but just in case we need to break into a secure location, like the broom closet we locked ourselves out of, it wouldn’t hurt to know how ...

Lockpicking is more of an art than a science: it’s probably 10% knowledge and 90% feeling. Only practice will teach you how much torque to apply to the cylinder, how to sense when you’ve pushed a pin ...

I have a lock in my hand, a little tension-wrench lever braced in it with one finger, and I'm wiggling a little pick tool inside it trying to coax the pins open. I'm laughing, of course, because I ...

I get locked out of my house quite a lot. By "I get locked out," I mean that I contrive to accidentally lock myself out. By "quite a lot", I probably mean it happens two or three or four times a year.