@@jasonmeaty8036 That's why you _always_ have to anchor down a safe like that one. Attach it to something in a way that can't be undone easily and to something that can't be destroyed easily. Just putting a safe of this size into your closet without anchoring it down doesn't really do any good.
I was wondering, what is a "sponge"? Thinking it was fancy lock/safe nomenclature for a part. Nope... Crappy sponge. I mean gaffer tape would have held it tighter.
I've watched enough retro-tech videos where deformed or disintegrated foam bits are replaced to know he meant it literally. This is a cheaply designed electronic gadget pretending to be a security device, after all…
Could easily tack-weld a little angle iron shield in front of the solenoid and bolt to prevent that. Not saying you should have to, just that you could. Just what I want to do with my brand new security device: open up the door and fire up the MIG.
So the lock in my safe was jammed up and the key would not turn it. This video saved me hundreds of dollars from a locksmith and helped me get into my safe in less than a minute! HUGE THANK YOU LPL!! Kinda scary how easy it was to get into!
I just did this as well. It definitely wasn’t as easy as he made it sound. Mostly because he had the benefit of making his tool the exact right length.
You can't even call this picking though. Hell this is a no skill bypass. The worst part, though, is that the company who made that is probably not at all shameful of the low quality of their product..
This morning a man walked into a Home Depot, one thing led to another, and now 1.14 million people are clowning on a Safe company for their use of sponges
I had one of these at work, batteries died, and we couldn't find a key. Sat for over a year untouched... I used this technique and was finally able to get the damn thing open. Thank you very much.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall of sentry safes conference room after they see this video. Cause someone's getting fired over that blatant disregard for anything even resembling security
Just had to do this, brother in law passed away and my SIL could not get in and was panicking. Took me about 10 minutes to get the wire just right and catch the lever. Thanks for the assist! Helped a widow lose some stress.
@@dr.feelgood.m you know, while I don't have anything against racist jokes, looking at your "racist joke" I am having trouble to locate the "joke" part of it.
@@EliasKaydanius Don't you think there are better ways of expressing hate, rather than my comment ? - You don't see the joke? Probably because it's on YOUR expense XD
Sentry Safe here, we’d like to let you all know that we’ve addressed this security issue. We’ve replaced the sponge with some sugar free double mint gum instead. Rest assured your security is our number one priority.
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven 19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:19-21
Ironically, that would actually make this product more secure, because it also has a fault where it unlocks easily by dropping it a few feet onto a surface. If it was 100% made from a sponge, the impact would stop it from self unlocking 😂
@@Phurzt If the entire space was filled with sponge, and glued it, while you could still push the LED out of the way, the sponge would at least have made it harder to move the coat hanger around.
This video just saved me. My hotel safe lock tumbler fell apart and no batteries in it. Passport and all my cash inside. This totally worked, thank you so much!
This worked perfectly! My young son has one of these safes - to save his treasures and birthday loot from Grandparents etc., but he locked the keys and the code inside many years ago. So it was a bit of a time capsule. He’s so happy to have all his gift cards and saved up birthday money again. Thanks for sharing this.
@@mindlessreader1595 I agree, but I live in the UK where they may or may not have an expiry date. And if the company goes bankrupt you are just another creditor owed money.
So my batteries went dead in this exact safe- could not find the keys anywhere. I called the company and they no longer make those keys, advised “go to locksmith”. 20min after watching this video I was in. Absolutely amazed and sooo thankful. Time for a new safe!!
I have a Secustar. I've spent 2 hours trying to get into it. Bought a giant earth magnet that I now can't get off of the side of it. Bent I can't tell you how many wires. Even got the front panel off but can't get the key lock off. Have a set of those pin things. My Grandmother left her pearls to me, I put the keys INSIDE the safe, cause you know batteries last forever. Now I can't for the life of me get to Grandma's pearls. Tomorrow I drop the thing off of the roof cause tapping the side didn't open it either lol.
@@NereidAlbel nah they know. It's the managers who told the people who designed these locks to make it cheaper because they wanted to see better profits and assumed nobody would find out.
Rather than buying a new one, they could solder a wall to block access from the hole to the solenoid and just keep it. Thieves will be pissed when their trick doesn’t work.
Been watching your videos for a while but never thought I would use any of the knowledge you share… until this week when the batteries died in my safe and I couldn’t find the key… Took me longer to find a metal coat hanger that it took to open the safe! Thanks for your help and the very entertaining content!
The locks usually have a letter or number on them to identify the key needed to open it. Just write the safe company a letter that you lost your key with the identifying number/letter and they will send you the key. Collect all of them and have all they keys for that model and probably most other safes they sell too.
Isn’t it amazing that so many of us are entertained and even addicted to videos from the Lock Picking Lawyer. One of the most interesting channels on UA-cam. As an engineer one thing that consistently bothers me is so many issues are the result of bad engineering, certainly driven by cheap management.
Liked his videos because there's no loud intro useless lengthy music all that stuffs. All straight to the point, informative video from a knowledgable person who had something to share.
It's business. The purpose of any business is to make a profit. Everything else is secondary. We've become so jaded to it that we rarely hold companies accountable for their failures. Well, at least now I know not to buy a safe from this company, so that's one person they won't be fooling.
Only in the way that he steals from people by selling them crappy safes, while giving a rats ass when someone is losing his valuables because he trusted this piece of garbage. In fact, asking a real thief how to design a safe would make a lot more sense to me than trusting someone who just wants to make some quick money.
I've never picked a lock in my life, but every episode on this channel gives me immense satisfaction. I wonder how many lock/safe/etc. companies just face palm when LPL owns them for everyone to see. Of course, they may also see it as free product testing.
That's the way things are for us now that our leaders have allowed China to have a freebee ride into easy-money-by-proxy. Our products that were made in USA decades ago are still around and most of those things like nail-clippers, scissors, can openers, etc still work today. China durable goods aren't durable at all.
I am the most amateur of all amateurs and I did this in under 5 minutes! I’ve had the safe for years and attempted the break into it several times and this blew my mind. Bravo!!!
Dont be deceived by these videos; this guy works his way backwards; he first opens the safe by the standar method (keypad password) then dissasembles the inner box to discover the flaw; in this case the flaw he shows is easily fixed by putting some strong metal block wall in the path from the led holes to the solenoid; but even if you gave him this safe and ask him (without knowing in advance the inner mechanism) he wont be able to open as easily as showed (there's no way he can come up with that specific hanger bent in that specific way if he doesnt know EXACTLY how the safe works, which of course he knows by first opening it off-camera)
@@alerey4363You are correct. Lock bypass cannot be done with knowlege of how the lock works. What are you trying to say? Locks cannot be bypassed without knowing how they work. There is no deception here at all. This is how any locksmith or criminal learns how to do this. As a Locksmith (50 years) I think these videos are great because it helps me to sell a better product. Do not buy cheap locks! Talk to your local Locksmith. Be safe & secure everyone. -30-
"SentrySafe produces and distributes fire-resistant chests, files, safes and security storage containers to more than 54 countries worldwide. An affiliate of the Master Lock Company ..." "Nuff said."
Double sided tape might be more secure, because the lights wouldn't as obviously give way. Also, they could avoid this kind of attack by having the lights protected with a thin plastic cover. A criminal could break the cover to perform this same attack, but it would be just a little harder to do.
I legit thought he was joking until he took the sponge out. I wonder if this was intended to have a larger mechanism/board, and they just re-used the shell? Because that sponge fills out quite a lot of empty space.
I found one of these today by a dumpster (no wonder why) and was certain LPL had done a video on it. Had the safe open, keyed to match my other safe, and reassembled in less than an hour. Thanks LPL!
You know, when it comes to these videos, I’m not even surprised anymore, but each time one pops up on my notifications, I’m absolutely thrilled.. sadly he picks them before my popcorn is even microwaved..
Although it causes you to miss out on your popcorn, I just love the fact that so many of the videos are just three minutes, and that I've never seen a LPL video fluffed up to 10 minutes, like most every other channel.
What are you guys talking about? I fucken buy them all the time to this day, I actually have one extended in my garage cus my lady has locked her keys in the car more than once in a week and that's my go to, I live in California and they sell them everywhere, I believe the swap meet has 5 for one dollar, target has them also but fuck them
Used this video to gain access to a SentrySafe in my office when the batteries died and the keys were lost! Thanks LockPickingLawyer, you saved my company a big headache.
One of my friends bought a safe. He bolted it down to the shelf. The shelf was easy to remove so when the robber came he took the safe together with the shelf.
"The circuit board is secured in place with a sponge..." Wait, what did you just say? A sponge? "High security sponge..." Phew. I thought they might have cheaper out and gone for a regular sponge, but I am now relieved, because high security sponges are known for their LPL proofness
Thank you, Sir. This worked. Wow, this video saved the day. Admittedly, it took me 20 - 30 minutes, BUT STILL. I got in. Frightening all the way around - and lesson learned. No more of these safes. Ever.
@@TwistedMe13 if they could pick up my safe as easily as that they deserve the contents..... It took four workers to leave it at the foot of my stairs.
@@johndododoe1411 Hotel "safe" are of very varied quality. One hotel I have been a guest of had a "master code" of 1 2 3 4 5 6... so... well... even if I set my own personal code; the 1 2 3 4 5 6 code also opened the safe. So far in my frequent travels though, I have not been subject to theft that I am aware of.
@@Paxmax As far as hotels are concerned, you'd probably want to look at the layers of security, and who has access to each. See what the room locks look like, the safe itself, any other security features in the common areas (sensors, cameras, night guard, etc). You'd also want to be discreet before checking in. Don't do anything to stand out, like wear expensive jewelry or designer clothes. Lastly, make sure to secure your belongings before you leave the room. I'm pretty sure that most hotels thefts are done by the maintenance or housekeeping staff.
I actually tried to return a safety wire for a computer i could "pick" by shoving a bent paperclip in. they said that once it's out of the package it's no longer their problem.
Having a decent amount of experience in a related field , I am well aware that NO lock will prevent a well-armed / well-determined thief or robber from getting into almost ANY lock. BUT - after watching several of your videos - what I do find alarming is the EMBARRASSING EASE so many of these locks / keys / safes can be defeated - YIKES !!
As always, it's just a matter of $$$.... the companies will make things as cheap as they can, and price them as high as they can get away with. It takes a lot of research and a willingness to spend an arm and a leg to get a good quality safe. And in reality, I think it's kind of always been this way.
As a professional bank robbery lockpicker, my friend can confirm this. He says that the first step is getting into a bank computer, spreading a specual virus so that we can manually control when what is active/not active. After that, we map out all cameras and doors. Meanwhile, we also find where the alarm is and shut it down before moving on. After that, my friend has to go near the bank, wait for the pc virus and alarm to shut stuff down, then he goes in (it's generally at night and not via the main enterance.) He then proceeds to pick the doors (with both standard and special tools) and then they can take a part of the money, quickly but silently get away and there won't even be camera footage left. Clean, fast, stealthy.
@@u6uggg6hguiuggy Ok but how are you getting to the "bank computer" without being caught on tape? Even once the cameras are off they can still see past footage. It's not like banks are empty either, they're not gonna just let you walk into personal restricted areas.
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BosnianBill once opened a MasterLock with a piece of bamboo ( I actually think it was a chunk of broken skewer ) then a piece of thin aluminum from a can of cat food and also a zip tie.
The CEO's probably regretting the cost cutting exercise they implemented a year ago where they removed a metal cover and two PCB supports. Now he'll probably blame the engineers who never wanted to do it anyway.
someone over at sentrysafe, when designing this particular safe, made a conscious decision to use a sponge and thin, easy to bend wires to keep the led lights in the holes right on the front of said safe. there is a person dumb enough to decide that a sponge is safe enough. let that sink in and despair.
The engineer made a proof of concept prototype using a sponge noting "replace with metal stand-offs later". Then the boss came. "How much are the stand-offs?" "$0.06 a piece, need 4 of them". "How much is the sponge?" "$0.13". "There, no need for stand-offs, it's perfect as it is."
With any of these electronic safes that rely on a solenoid, a strong magnet or bouncing the box works great. Kinetic energy pulling that solenoid open gives you a gap to open it same way bumping a lock works.
"Hi, I'm mr.badass calm voice and today I'll show to you this high security master blaster unpenetrable lock. Then I'll touch it with this common pencil and.. oh sorry, I already opened it. Well, this is all folks." LOOOOOOOOL this guy is a monster hahahaha
Next time I'm in the market for a safe or a lock, I'm going to have to dig through your archives to see if you've picked what I'm looking at and how long it took.
@@Reelix Its smarter to watch exactly how long it took to pick. Sometimes he picks multiple locks or spends the first 4 minutes talking about other things before spending a few seconds picking
He has good locks on the show sometimes, but I don't think he has ever done a good safe or lockbox. I suspect they're too expensive just for the sake of a video and he doesn't want to show any safes he's actually using.
The best safe is simply hiding something where no one would expect to look or one that is too heavy to carry out of a house. Every other safe out there will do fine for keeping young kids out of things, maybe not savvy teenagers though who would find a video like this and break in. Another factor is convenience. If a safe has a key hole, buttons, or fingerprint sensor on it then it will have more vulnerabilities. Combination locks seem to be the best. Or a safe that requires two types of keys or codes to open.
pick pockets and ex-cons who got on their payroll after prison and rehabilitation that tax payers paid for. They're once again returning to their old careers as we speak.
It's incredible baffling that with a few small modifications this attack could be avoided: separated circuit board for the LEDs, bolted to the door; physical separation between the circuits and the actual lock mechanism (a simple "I" shaped metal soldered between the parts should already be enough!)... Of course, these are only to avoid this attack. A couple more modifications would improve the overall security of the whole thing. As it is right now, it's as safe as a drawer... :)
Robber: **CRASH** Breaks in. "Oh look... hm....not familiar with this... model...UA-cam....Lockpickinglawyer........Oh here we go." "Where is that closet...need a coat hanger..." "Sweet! Got my trusty leathermen here, let me just bend this properly...and.... WOW. WOW."
Can someone please tell me why these videos are so compelling. I'm neither locksmith nor theif and have no need of this information but by jingo I do love them. Happy new year LPL. Hope.you have a great one
Why are these videos so compelling? Because they are pitting corporate marketeers and vendors of trash against competence and experience that is grown at home with enthusiasm and perseverance... and the home-made competence and experience wins every time. That is why you like them. No really, everyone likes it when the "little guy" gives corporations the finger, and even more so when it is not just out of spite but by yanking their pants down and giving solid evidence of their inadequacies, inadequacies that do not at all match their boasting and their high promises for which they had the nerve to charge good money for. This is basically a modern version of "Robin Hood"-type folklore, or the braggart being plucked down, like the "Hic Rhodus, hic salta" tale. Its just that it is _real_ and not just an uplifting tale.
1) LPL is a brilliant showman. he could do anything and it would be entertaining 2) the videos are very short and to the point, so your interest is piqued and satisfied without a chance to get bored 3) high technical skill is fascinating to watch 4) learning is compelling, and this is all new stuff to us. 5) LPL being calm, in an era of everyone shouting, is so respectful and relaxing
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW SPECIFIC AND HELPFUL THIS WAS. Jokes aside, the battery ran out in our safe and we never had a key, just did this trick and tada! Thank you
Sounds like you're saying automotive companies should be fined because the a thief broke into my car, even though it was locked, by smashing the window.
I’m trying to get a decent safe and literally every single one I consider I find a video from LPL easily busting it open. Lmao this is like a mini challenge for me at this point
@@J.T.19134 I need a locked container to keep my pistol in. I actually ended up buying this safe, I took it apart and replaced the sponge and put an obstacle so doing this coat hanger method will be nearly impossible. It is also concealed behind a fake wall panel of my shelf so it should be “good enough” but I know LPL would probably disapprove.
Every house I lived in, I put in a fake cold air return that has a baffle and a latch to get to the goodies. Cheap easy to get to, and if it looks like part of the house, nobody would suspect it's there.
The best kind of safe is the kind that A) nobody knows you have and B) they still don't know you have when they are staring at it and C) nobody can figure out how to open because you designed and built it yourself. Mine is such a safe. I have guests over all the time and many will stare right at my safe and have no idea it's a safe and even if I pointed it out to them they are not getting it open mechanically. There are only two ways to open it, one watch me open it and learn or two, a lot of explosives. Of course long before that you will have to defeat the hidden non electronic alarm system and you are going to have to make friends with Scarface, my rescue pet who snacks on armadillos and snapping turtles and has survived after being shot 27 times and not by bb's. If you don't want to go through all the trouble I have I suggest you find an old (100 year old +) combo safe, make sure the mechanicals are in working order then cut a hole in either your foundation or in the basement floor and recess it in there and hide it behind either a concrete door that fits so tight that you can't see the seams or under a heavy concrete trap door and then cover the whole floor with carpet. Few people will think to look past the foundation wall or a concrete basement floor. Yes it will take effort to open the door that the safe is hid behind but then you don't want it to be easy. Look into hidden pin latches as a way to secure the door. I learned about them in a book on magic when I was a kid. Once you know how they work they are relatively easy to install and nearly impossible for a safe cracker to figure out. Poor concrete in the space around the safe so they find it ridiculously challenging to pull the safe out of the wall or floor. Then decorate the basement room that your safe is in with a lot of worthless junk that no one would suspect is camouflaging something valuable. NEVER have any kind of electric or electronic locking mechanism they are prone to failure as this video demonstrates. Find a nice affectionate and highly territorial rescue animal. Mine is a very large cat that adores me but is otherwise very paranoid and hates unexpected visitors. She literally rips open an armadillo in 30 seconds and takes only a little longer to extract a full grown snapping turtle from it's shell. Scarface isn't really cute to be honest but I NEVER have to worry about burglars. Nobody who has ever visited my home knows about my safe That's the best way to protect your stuff.
I’m amazed you got through that SentrySafe security sponge to open that Unsafe Safe. Sentry safe security sponge is generally acknowledged as the safest safe sponge in the world.
I mean .... its cost vs who would be able to/ knows how to break in. Not to mention just for the fire protection. But there are wayyyyyy better ones then this for the same price.
At the end of the day there is none that's unbreakable! "Someone smart enough with some time in their hands will develop a technique/tool to break in just like the engineer that designed it! It's always going to be a cat and mouse game..
if it's to keep out the casual roommate, sibling, or parent who might discretely lift cash out of that unsealed envelope in your desk drawer where you keep the cash tips you get from your job waiting tables, or like you said for fireproofing, it seems okay especially if it's cheap, but yeah don't buy this for real proper family heirlooms or large sums of money.
@@TheMennoXD except when LPL hosts a product and proves it is garbage to the public, their sales likely go down at least by a bit. So yes, I would say lock companies hate their products being tested on this channel.
@@machina5 he's got 1 million people that are subscribed, and of course the likely equal number of viewers that aren't subscribed. Lock companies often send him products to see his feedback. On several occasions after giving a lock a bad review, both locks sent by companies and ones he picked up himself, companies have sent him the newest version of that lock to try and defend their reputation with. Early on several lock companies tried to get his channel deleted and even tried to claim his videos. Sure sounds like he's making a dent to me, companies just don't put that much effort into things they feel aren't affecting them. I'm not saying it's a huge dent, but a dent nonetheless.
I actually own this safe. It’s just good enough to keep things out of access for my little kids. That’s it. I have zero illusions about it being secure against anyone with a brain or any strength. And if they didn’t want to take the time to open it in my house they’d simply pull up on it ripping the thin metal the screws are in to hold it down then open it whenever they wish. But it does well for keeping ammunition in small amounts and prescription medications out of access for my 7 year old daughter.
Try this, you’ll be very upset about it, turn your dial like youre trying to open it, just has to be at the point it stops moving, then with your open hand, smack the top of the safe while turning the dial at the same time, the safe will pop open, a common smack’s shockwave allows you to turn the dial and open these little safes..
What’s interesting is that he’s also provided anyone with this safe a fix to make it more secure. Just screw in a piece of 90* angle iron to shield/protect the solenoid. Exchange the sponge for a piece of steel/hard plastic/or even hard wood, screwed to the inside cover that he took off, to hold the circuit board in place. Also change the solenoid spring to a much stronger one. Now you have a pretty secure safe, that’s at least not as easy to pick open, or bounce on something to compress the spring and open.
If you make the spring too strong, the battery operated solenoid won’t be able to pull it in. The dead-battery bypass lock you see above said solenoid is easily pickable with a $5 tool. As a noob, it took me, three, seconds... I think even a plastic bracket, glued to the door between the solenoid and circuit board will thwart the coathanger approach. Especially if you use some epoxy or even silicone.
And all of that work would be pointless when you look at the front of the safe. There is a set of keys shown in the video, and you can see on the side of the number pad where the cover for the wafer lock this thing has as an option to open the safe is, meaning it's prone to a low skill attack of just having that lock raked open.
I’ll be honest, I hate all these modern “cheap” safes. I’m talking about these ones on up to the larger gun safes, that don’t use solid steel for the walls and doors. No matter how good the lock is, or how many locking bolts the doors have, it just takes a medium size hammer (or a smaller sledge) and an angle grinder or something similar to just cut through it in a few minutes. It’s actually pretty ridiculous…and I own one of these. They’re hilariously cheesy…they’re just basically a large “lock-box” that may keep your kids out (and might save ur stuff in a fire), but won’t keep out someone with actual intent on getting in quickly.
I've seen these types of safes in hotel rooms and by merely hitting the top of the safe with my fist (to bounce the solenoid) and turn the knob at the correct time, they can be opened without any tools whatsoever.
Hotel safes aren't.... They are a requirement of the hotel's insurance. As you stated, they can be opened with a sharp knock. There again, if you've used it to store your Cartier watch or whatever & you're robbed, the hotel's insurance *may* pay out (hopefully!)
@@stephenphillip5656 when I'm at a hotel or an airbnb I store my omega watch wrapped up in dirty undies. I even get a chocolate bar and put a strategic brown stain on them. Thus far this has been a pretty good security measure.
Imagine being a normal person (who doesn't watch lock picking videos for fun). You buy that safe, thinking it provides adequate security for your valuables. One day, maybe in a year or two from now, you forget the code, and start searching for ways to bypass the lock. After a bit of searching, you stumble upon this video. You start playing the video and your heart sinks, when you realize nothing you ever stored in there was actually safe.
Technically none of your stuff is safe. Even if you have the most advanced hard to pick lock on the market it is usually next to a easy to break piece of glass. Locks are to keep honest people honest.
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The sponge is included to dry your tears when you get robbed.
Well, that actually makes a lot of sense! 😄
(Unless the sponge is stolen, too...)
A safe that size🤣 somebody just picks up nd walks away with🤣🤣🤣
*theif takes the sponge as well*
@@jasonmeaty8036 That's why you _always_ have to anchor down a safe like that one. Attach it to something in a way that can't be undone easily and to something that can't be destroyed easily. Just putting a safe of this size into your closet without anchoring it down doesn't really do any good.
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"High security sponge" lmao
The HSS is nothing to joke about.
It worked for Elaine on Seinfeld
I hoping this is a fire safe and not s security safe. Replacing the laminated tungsten/steal plate with extra sponge, isn't doing the trick.
Well, you know... SpongeBob fell on hard times and had to fall back on selling body parts...
How can I get on this government technology?
LPL: "It's held in place with a sponge..."
Me: Hahaha, well that's a mean way to put it
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OMG IT'S ACTUALLY HELD IN PLACE WITH A REAL SPONGE!
Legitimately my thinking, I had no reason to believe he literally meant a sponge until he proved it
I was wondering, what is a "sponge"? Thinking it was fancy lock/safe nomenclature for a part. Nope... Crappy sponge.
I mean gaffer tape would have held it tighter.
I've watched enough retro-tech videos where deformed or disintegrated foam bits are replaced to know he meant it literally. This is a cheaply designed electronic gadget pretending to be a security device, after all…
A "High Security Sponge" even...
Could easily tack-weld a little angle iron shield in front of the solenoid and bolt to prevent that. Not saying you should have to, just that you could. Just what I want to do with my brand new security device: open up the door and fire up the MIG.
So the lock in my safe was jammed up and the key would not turn it. This video saved me hundreds of dollars from a locksmith and helped me get into my safe in less than a minute! HUGE THANK YOU LPL!!
Kinda scary how easy it was to get into!
Do you have any tips on getting the bend on the hanger wire correct? I have been trying off and on for a few weeks and get get mine open.
Actually never mind, I just got it! Just needed indirect words of encouragement through seeing someone else’s success.
I just did this as well. It definitely wasn’t as easy as he made it sound. Mostly because he had the benefit of making his tool the exact right length.
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Hundreds? BS…more like $20. My shop probably wouldn’t even charge you to take it open.
It takes longer to unscrew the back of the door than to pick it open...
That was going to be my comment :D
You can't even call this picking though. Hell this is a no skill bypass. The worst part, though, is that the company who made that is probably not at all shameful of the low quality of their product..
Sentry had major flaws in all their products. Looks like this could be opened with a rare earth magnet still.
I know right.... Should have a power driver... But I know if it was real h he'd be gone... Lol... Thanks lock guy, I went but the safe
Damn, this is the safe most hotels use too. 😳
This morning a man walked into a Home Depot, one thing led to another, and now 1.14 million people are clowning on a Safe company for their use of sponges
blueberrylps one thing LED to another
blueberrylps Sentry Safe is owned by Master Lock😂
@@markyastion1153 The jokes write themselves lmao
@@jobmen1992 Hey man you try having perfect spelling on my cracked-ass smartphone
@@blueberrylps I guess he wasn't correcting your spelling, just increasing the joke. It was the holes for the LEDs LPL used to open the safe...
I love how it is tougher to reach the mechanism from INSIDE the safe than from outside.
That's to make sure the public never notices.
That's absurd.
They mounted the door the wrong way around...
To be fair we missed the 20 seconds of bending the wire just right so it hits the solenoid.
It took longer to remove the screws than it did to gain access from outside
I had one of these at work, batteries died, and we couldn't find a key. Sat for over a year untouched... I used this technique and was finally able to get the damn thing open. Thank you very much.
Damn…my battery died as well. Couldn’t get the door open…safe was empty..we chucked it!
"Opened with a coat hanger"
Now that's just insulting...
A lot of the cheap "safes" can be opened by dropping them...
So coat hangers are good for more than just abortions?
@@StratBlackFishRa wtf?is that a thing?
@@StratBlackFishRa i found what you`re talking about,but it seems the coat hangers aren`t good for that,she died first
So you never see the twig one
-Sponge is binding...
-Got a click out of the green LED...
LOL
-Nothing on red
-Yellow is binding...
And we got it open
😂
.. And we have dropped into a deep false se..nse of security.
"The circuitboard is secured in place with a sponge..."
...I'm sorry, a WHAT?
a "high security sponge" actually
I was thinking he was going to say glue
But a sponge
Just how
Does open cell foam sound better
I'd love to be a fly on the wall of sentry safes conference room after they see this video. Cause someone's getting fired over that blatant disregard for anything even resembling security
@@thomasvlaskampiii6850 That isn't happening. The company is just happy that they were able to save ~40 cents per save by not securing that board.
Just had to do this, brother in law passed away and my SIL could not get in and was panicking. Took me about 10 minutes to get the wire just right and catch the lever. Thanks for the assist! Helped a widow lose some stress.
Should drop the "S" and call it EntrySafe
Isn’t that a bit... Racist?
Timtodile only racist would say it’s racist. You know the proverbial “takes one, to know one”
Timtodile only a racist would think it’s racist. The proverbial “ takes one to know one”
@@dr.feelgood.m you know, while I don't have anything against racist jokes, looking at your "racist joke" I am having trouble to locate the "joke" part of it.
@@EliasKaydanius Don't you think there are better ways of expressing hate, rather than my comment ?
- You don't see the joke? Probably because it's on YOUR expense XD
“High Security Sponge” = SAVAGE
“High security sponge”
I’m dying 😂
Same
Spongebob's promotion from being the hall monitor.
F
My thoughts exactly...
@Homedepot should be ashamed they sell this crap
Sentry Safe here, we’d like to let you all know that we’ve addressed this security issue. We’ve replaced the sponge with some sugar free double mint gum instead. Rest assured your security is our number one priority.
No gonna lie. You had me for a second 😅. Too funny 🤣
😂. That’s hilarious! Thank you for the laugh.
Solving flaws with more flaws 😂😇😇😂
I wish I said that.
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-21
And for an extra $50 we will replace the High Security Sponge™ with a Maximum Security Biscuit™
mmmm wafer lock.. tasty XD
Screw that, I need an upgrade. I'll pay the extra fee for the "Securabandaid"
Act now and for only $100 you can upgrade to "Great Stuff" foam!
Flex Seal: am I joke to you?
Seriously it’s quite easy to fix, both replace the sponge and put a material barrier around the solenoid...
"... Today's sponge..."
They offered LPL the key to the city. He said, "that's not necessary, I already opened it."
"... with the tool Bosnian Bill and I made not so long ago" ))))
*They could have made the entire door out of sponge.*
*It would be highly resistant to hammer attacks.*
Ironically, that would actually make this product more secure, because it also has a fault where it unlocks easily by dropping it a few feet onto a surface. If it was 100% made from a sponge, the impact would stop it from self unlocking 😂
@@Phurzt If the entire space was filled with sponge, and glued it, while you could still push the LED out of the way, the sponge would at least have made it harder to move the coat hanger around.
not so tough
OOOOOOR you could just hold a lighter up to the sponge safe and boom.. money
This video just saved me. My hotel safe lock tumbler fell apart and no batteries in it. Passport and all my cash inside. This totally worked, thank you so much!
This worked perfectly! My young son has one of these safes - to save his treasures and birthday loot from Grandparents etc., but he locked the keys and the code inside many years ago. So it was a bit of a time capsule. He’s so happy to have all his gift cards and saved up birthday money again. Thanks for sharing this.
I guess that he will find those gift cards expired by now.
@@RonSeymour1 Gift cards can't expire in Canada
@@QuadTAZ Most do have an expiry, here in the UK. Not only that but if the company goes bankrupt then you lose the money on them.
@@RonSeymour1 Gift cards don’t expire in lots of places. For example, its illegal for gift cards to expire in california
@@mindlessreader1595 I agree, but I live in the UK where they may or may not have an expiry date. And if the company goes bankrupt you are just another creditor owed money.
When you have no interest in locks, lock picking or law but you still watch every episode :)
UA-cam recomendations for the win
what if i doooooo
Yea same here
@Leszek Szymański I don't regret it though.
👍🏼🤣
"Here we have our high security sponge"
LMAO
So my batteries went dead in this exact safe- could not find the keys anywhere. I called the company and they no longer make those keys, advised “go to locksmith”. 20min after watching this video I was in. Absolutely amazed and sooo thankful. Time for a new safe!!
I have a Secustar. I've spent 2 hours trying to get into it. Bought a giant earth magnet that I now can't get off of the side of it. Bent I can't tell you how many wires. Even got the front panel off but can't get the key lock off. Have a set of those pin things. My Grandmother left her pearls to me, I put the keys INSIDE the safe, cause you know batteries last forever. Now I can't for the life of me get to Grandma's pearls. Tomorrow I drop the thing off of the roof cause tapping the side didn't open it either lol.
Found duplicate keys online in about five minutes. As long as you have the codes.
I always imagine the downvotes for his videos are people who use these locks and realise they have to buy new ones
Nah, they're the people who designed the locks
@@NereidAlbel nah they know. It's the managers who told the people who designed these locks to make it cheaper because they wanted to see better profits and assumed nobody would find out.
@phillip stafford-dafoe Well, I learned that I should probably spend a few more bucks on a lock if I want one that actually does the job.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo I guess if I ever have enough cash I need to hide I will just use the most inconspicuous books
Rather than buying a new one, they could solder a wall to block access from the hole to the solenoid and just keep it. Thieves will be pissed when their trick doesn’t work.
My front door was locked so i played "This is the lock picking lawyer". The door unlocked itself.
On more secure doors you have to play thr parts where he says "binding on 1..."
"1 is loose, 2 is binding, 3 is..." Booyah guess who?
@@Kounnah I'm sorry to tell u this but if the door have a high security sponge no amount of lpl videos will open that door
I seriously LOLed. 😂
I literally spat out my coffee on this one 😂
See, this is the very reason I keep all my clothes in a pile on the floor rather than buy a rack with coat hangers. It's safety first in my home.
You get plastic coat hangers :p
As a bonus, you can hide your valuables under the pile of clothes.
@@johnwinebrenner4618 It would certainly be safer and cheaper than putting it in this useless box
Ah the old floordrobe. I remember my batchelor years fondly
No coat hangers means no spare key to your safe.
Been watching your videos for a while but never thought I would use any of the knowledge you share… until this week when the batteries died in my safe and I couldn’t find the key…
Took me longer to find a metal coat hanger that it took to open the safe!
Thanks for your help and the very entertaining content!
i bought one last year and returned it. my friend had a different model and we tried his key on mine and it opened the safe.
damn
The locks usually have a letter or number on them to identify the key needed to open it. Just write the safe company a letter that you lost your key with the identifying number/letter and they will send you the key. Collect all of them and have all they keys for that model and probably most other safes they sell too.
kush king lol
Mine too
🅱️ruh
Isn’t it amazing that so many of us are entertained and even addicted to videos from the Lock Picking Lawyer. One of the most interesting channels on UA-cam. As an engineer one thing that consistently bothers me is so many issues are the result of bad engineering, certainly driven by cheap management.
Liked his videos because there's no loud intro useless lengthy music all that stuffs. All straight to the point, informative video from a knowledgable person who had something to share.
It's business. The purpose of any business is to make a profit. Everything else is secondary. We've become so jaded to it that we rarely hold companies accountable for their failures. Well, at least now I know not to buy a safe from this company, so that's one person they won't be fooling.
My first thought: a person who designed this lock is a thief.
Only in the way that he steals from people by selling them crappy safes, while giving a rats ass when someone is losing his valuables because he trusted this piece of garbage.
In fact, asking a real thief how to design a safe would make a lot more sense to me than trusting someone who just wants to make some quick money.
No he is a stupid
If it were really designed by a thief, it would be more secure. They'd know what to secure it against
@@Furzkampfbomber
This is true. Like how Frank Abagnale Jr. actually went to work for the government and started catching fraudsters.
@@Pouya- he have stupid
I've never picked a lock in my life, but every episode on this channel gives me immense satisfaction. I wonder how many lock/safe/etc. companies just face palm when LPL owns them for everyone to see. Of course, they may also see it as free product testing.
its never a good product test lol
LPL at Home Depot customer service: I’d like to return this safe it only took me 10 seconds to open
Customer service: Well I understand, with the keys it shouldn't take that long.
LPL: No, no, no. With a coat hanger.
Customer service:○_○
@@ttilatv3502 costumer service? Is home Depot a Halloween store now?
@@startedtech Sorry, why?
@@startedtech yes, apparently it is. They sold a mailbox disguised as a safe. :-)
@@startedtech Haha. Funny.
“High security sponge” absolutely brutal. I loved it
Heyo its the funny DnD guy. mad respect for your channel
They can't even be bothered to mount the circuit board. That's the ultimate in cheap junk.
That's being competitive as a business. Always finding ways to make your crap cheaper than that of the competitor.
@@QoraxAudio it's amazing what some people take pride in
Opened mine today with a flathead and a vice grip.
@@QoraxAudio Safes are very heavy and the cost of shipping is ultimately what keeps these thing with low production value.
That's the way things are for us now that our leaders have allowed China to have a freebee ride into easy-money-by-proxy. Our products that were made in USA decades ago are still around and most of those things like nail-clippers, scissors, can openers, etc still work today. China durable goods aren't durable at all.
I am the most amateur of all amateurs and I did this in under 5 minutes! I’ve had the safe for years and attempted the break into it several times and this blew my mind. Bravo!!!
Every manufacturer should be scared af, when their company name is in this guy's 2 minutes long video.
unnessciacary ckomma. laern to uze grammer
@@robbespel8393 bruh you can't even spell
@@owenfranklin814 lol you think i can't see you edited that comment mister soell?
Dont be deceived by these videos; this guy works his way backwards; he first opens the safe by the standar method (keypad password) then dissasembles the inner box to discover the flaw; in this case the flaw he shows is easily fixed by putting some strong metal block wall in the path from the led holes to the solenoid; but even if you gave him this safe and ask him (without knowing in advance the inner mechanism) he wont be able to open as easily as showed (there's no way he can come up with that specific hanger bent in that specific way if he doesnt know EXACTLY how the safe works, which of course he knows by first opening it off-camera)
@@alerey4363You are correct. Lock bypass cannot be done with knowlege of how the lock works. What are you trying to say? Locks cannot be bypassed without knowing how they work. There is no deception here at all. This is how any locksmith or criminal learns how to do this. As a Locksmith (50 years) I think these videos are great because it helps me to sell a better product. Do not buy cheap locks! Talk to your local Locksmith. Be safe & secure everyone. -30-
"SentrySafe produces and distributes fire-resistant chests, files, safes and security storage containers to more than 54 countries worldwide. An affiliate of the Master Lock Company ..."
"Nuff said."
Masterlooooooock! *shakes fist*
“Well there’s ya problem”
Also, how fire-resistant can it be. If you put a fuel source behind a flame ingress point.
When Masterlock don't even release these products under their own name... You know they're bad lol
@@Aimless6 fire-resistant chest mean that the box will not burn, not the insides
LPL: "It's held in place with a sponge..."
Me: "You mean double sided tape but ok..."
Me: "...omg..."
Double sided tape might be more secure, because the lights wouldn't as obviously give way.
Also, they could avoid this kind of attack by having the lights protected with a thin plastic cover. A criminal could break the cover to perform this same attack, but it would be just a little harder to do.
I legit thought he was joking until he took the sponge out.
I wonder if this was intended to have a larger mechanism/board, and they just re-used the shell? Because that sponge fills out quite a lot of empty space.
Stollllen comment loser
It is a sponge duh
I found one of these today by a dumpster (no wonder why) and was certain LPL had done a video on it.
Had the safe open, keyed to match my other safe, and reassembled in less than an hour.
Thanks LPL!
You know, when it comes to these videos, I’m not even surprised anymore, but each time one pops up on my notifications, I’m absolutely thrilled..
sadly he picks them before my popcorn is even microwaved..
You microwave your popcorn before you start his videos. Only safe way to ensure your popcorn is ready for the show. :)
Although it causes you to miss out on your popcorn, I just love the fact that so many of the videos are just three minutes, and that I've never seen a LPL video fluffed up to 10 minutes, like most every other channel.
@@LadyAnuB You have time to eat a piece of popcorn before he gets a lock open? Daaaammmm you're fast...or Very hungry!😁
lol...……...
The hardest part is finding a wire hanger.
Can only find those hangars at dry cleaners anymore. So this attack might require 2 days and $5 to steam & iron your shirt.
What are you guys talking about? I fucken buy them all the time to this day, I actually have one extended in my garage cus my lady has locked her keys in the car more than once in a week and that's my go to, I live in California and they sell them everywhere, I believe the swap meet has 5 for one dollar, target has them also but fuck them
@@chukybenavides9172 so is the update remove this thing
99cent only has plastic ones
You dont even need one. Just hit the top of safe and turn handle at same time.
Must've taken quite a few takes to say "high security sponge" with a straight face....
why do you assume he said it with a straight face?
wait till you see his other video ua-cam.com/video/Joed0P3hhbc/v-deo.html
Why would he need to do a retake if he didn't have a straight face? He only ever films his hands.
Used this video to gain access to a SentrySafe in my office when the batteries died and the keys were lost! Thanks LockPickingLawyer, you saved my company a big headache.
One of my friends bought a safe. He bolted it down to the shelf. The shelf was easy to remove so when the robber came he took the safe together with the shelf.
"a lock is only as safe as what its mounted in"
also works well if you change it to
"a safe is only as secure as what its mounted on"
😂😂😂😂😂
your friend forgot to make sure the lock was secured to a strong setting. whoops.
"There was an attempt..."
If you can pick up the safe, it's not safe.
🤦🏻♂️🤣. I no longer think my safe made out of Lego is ridiculous
First Name Second Name it’ll probably keep him out longer tbh
Bare foot thieves better beware.
I once made a fully functioning safe by following a cardbord cutout template from a kids magazing. Security-wise I think it was on par. :)
If I buy enough Playdough I think I can make something that will take ages to go through...
Yo if you super glue those legos together, you'd have a better safe than the ones shown on this channel
"High Security Sponge" TM
*HighSecuritySponge™️*
Your DIY was perfect, opened my safe under a minute! And yes the white security sponge was high tech. Thank you!
Thats the coat hanger bosnian bill and he made
Edit: Goddamn . Thanks guys for the likes. 😂🙏
lol
I was literally about to say the same thing lol
"Let me just take out this coat hanger, bosnian bill and I made"
Aimee Physique using bottom of the circuit board tension...
The coat hanger Bosnian Bill and him use to hang their jackets.
"The circuit board is secured in place with a sponge..."
Wait, what did you just say? A sponge?
"High security sponge..."
Phew. I thought they might have cheaper out and gone for a regular sponge, but I am now relieved, because high security sponges are known for their LPL proofness
"Hello, this is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and..."
Safe door opens and runs away.
Thank you so much, after so many videos and tries my husband got to opened our safe. Regards
Next video: "Here we have a Sentry safe which I bought from Home Depot and I'm going to show you how to open it with a wet noodle."
If he uses spaghetti then master regrhetti
"Opening a lock with a coat hanger crashes Paper Mario"
@@bob52287 lol...
@@bob52287 y r u dissing yourself😅
Sentry Safe, "I'm sorry, sir. You purposefully damaged the LED securing method, your warranty is voided."
LPL, "That's okay. Your safe is voided."
Gotem
Nothin' says high-security like a sponge.
Jon Winters If you’re prone to drowning one might want security sponges.
SHA-3 Keccak hashing algorithm uses a "sponge function" and it is extremely safe. But I guess cryptography is another topic...
Its not "Sponge Worthy"
Thank you, Sir. This worked. Wow, this video saved the day. Admittedly, it took me 20 - 30 minutes, BUT STILL. I got in. Frightening all the way around - and lesson learned. No more of these safes. Ever.
LPL: *Enters home depot*
Home Depot: "why do I hear the boss music?"
You mean like this?
ua-cam.com/video/I0OvsHQRQv8/v-deo.html
I literally peed reading this fawk
@@sense7074 The lyrics to that one are something to behold... gotta love Nerd Rap.
@@TwistedMe13
Yo fam . cool stuff.. 💪🏽💪🏽
@@TwistedMe13 if they could pick up my safe as easily as that they deserve the contents..... It took four workers to leave it at the foot of my stairs.
the scary part is that the hotel literally supplies any theif with the neccessary tools just a few ft from the "safe".
This is not a hotel safe. It's a home "safe" by the worst lock company in the US.
@@johndododoe1411 Hotel "safe" are of very varied quality. One hotel I have been a guest of had a "master code" of 1 2 3 4 5 6... so... well... even if I set my own personal code; the 1 2 3 4 5 6 code also opened the safe.
So far in my frequent travels though, I have not been subject to theft that I am aware of.
@@johndododoe1411 Document fire safe.
the door is maybe the thickest part of the whole "safe"
@@Paxmax As far as hotels are concerned, you'd probably want to look at the layers of security, and who has access to each. See what the room locks look like, the safe itself, any other security features in the common areas (sensors, cameras, night guard, etc).
You'd also want to be discreet before checking in. Don't do anything to stand out, like wear expensive jewelry or designer clothes.
Lastly, make sure to secure your belongings before you leave the room. I'm pretty sure that most hotels thefts are done by the maintenance or housekeeping staff.
LPL at Home Depot speaking with the returns clerk: I’d like to return this safe because it’s not safe. *shows the coat hanger*
Clerk: 😶
I actually tried to return a safety wire for a computer i could "pick" by shoving a bent paperclip in. they said that once it's out of the package it's no longer their problem.
@@StefanoBorini *roblox oof sound*
I'm returning this safe, because it is missing an LED.
Having a decent amount of experience in a related field , I am well aware that NO lock will prevent a well-armed / well-determined thief or robber from getting into almost ANY lock. BUT - after watching several of your videos - what I do find alarming is the EMBARRASSING EASE so many of these locks / keys / safes can be defeated - YIKES !!
And not with pro lock picking tools. Coat hangers and orange juice bottles.
Yep that's his primary goal, to show how basically insecure so many of these products are and to motivate vendors to do better.
As always, it's just a matter of $$$.... the companies will make things as cheap as they can, and price them as high as they can get away with. It takes a lot of research and a willingness to spend an arm and a leg to get a good quality safe. And in reality, I think it's kind of always been this way.
As a professional bank robbery lockpicker, my friend can confirm this.
He says that the first step is getting into a bank computer, spreading a specual virus so that we can manually control when what is active/not active.
After that, we map out all cameras and doors.
Meanwhile, we also find where the alarm is and shut it down before moving on.
After that, my friend has to go near the bank, wait for the pc virus and alarm to shut stuff down, then he goes in (it's generally at night and not via the main enterance.)
He then proceeds to pick the doors (with both standard and special tools) and then they can take a part of the money, quickly but silently get away and there won't even be camera footage left.
Clean, fast, stealthy.
@@u6uggg6hguiuggy Ok but how are you getting to the "bank computer" without being caught on tape? Even once the cameras are off they can still see past footage. It's not like banks are empty either, they're not gonna just let you walk into personal restricted areas.
"MasterLock opened with a shoelace!"
Through the eye of a needle
Time to loosen your tounge
Got a tip how to make ends meet
A-G-L-E-T! Don't forget it! Get's us all on our feet! Yeah Yeah Yeah
A-G-L-E-T! Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! (We're tying the world together) Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! (We're tying the world together) Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! (We're gonna tie the world together) Aglet! Don't forget it
A-G-L-E-T! (We're gonna tie the world together) Aglet! Don't forget it
One word at a time
[Phineas (Speaking)]
Ladies and Gentlemen my sister, Candace Flynn!
[Candace (Singing)]
And in the end the most important thing
Is that we never forget
The end of a shoelace is called the...
The uhhh...
Wait a minute! It doesn't matter
I can't beleive I was almost sucked into this!
[Phineas (Speaking)]
I can't believe you still don't know the word
I mean we spelled it a bunch of times in the song!
McGyver style
@@Landcot thx
Hell, I still remember when he opened his hotel door using only the "Do Not Disturb" card.
BosnianBill once opened a MasterLock with a piece of bamboo ( I actually think it was a chunk of broken skewer ) then a piece of thin aluminum from a can of cat food and also a zip tie.
"Who lives by the solenoid inside SentrySafe?"
"Sponge Robbed Safepants!"
That's a bad joke
@@Vigyyy yup. too many syllables. you cant even sing along with the tune without going out of rythym
@@stephenhartley2853 its just the SentrySafe that sets it off, the rest is great
This has to be the best comment of 2020. Nobody else will be able to beat it
AAAARRGGGHHHH!!! It burns usssssss......
"High-security sponge," sounds like an obsolete contraceptive technique.
Yep. A Trojan is safer!
It'd probably be more useful for that purpose
LPL comment section is taking a solid lead in my favorite comedy site to visit. Thanks for this one!
Damn it, now the rabbit is going to die.
Not sponge worthy. A great Jerry Seinfeld episode. Classic.
Thank you! This helped me get my safe open! Previous owners of the house didn't leave a key and the batteries died. Now to get a better safe!
CEO at Sentry Safe is now planning an "all employee meeting" in the lobby.
So, how long have you all been working for this company, not counting tomorrow?
Both of the competent people probaly already left years ago.
Update on that: Sentry CEO commits suicide by hari-kari in front of board meeting.
The CEO's probably regretting the cost cutting exercise they implemented a year ago where they removed a metal cover and two PCB supports. Now he'll probably blame the engineers who never wanted to do it anyway.
Nah. Just a marketing meeting, and maybe a lawyer.
LockPickingLawyer: “Enters Home Depot “
Home Depot employees in Darth Vader voice:NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Why would they care? They keep selling him overpriced shit, and he keeps buying it.
I dont think they care about him... I mean, they just the stuff
@@coladict LPL sacrifices his own money to sav(f)e US. think about in this way.
What he didn't tell us, is that he went there at midnight, and got in with a coat hanger!
(@ ImminentGod) : Wouldn't that be a Luke Skywalker voice?
Wikipedia photo caption: "A SentrySafe safe; requires a combination and a four-way key."
LockPickingLawyer: "I beg to differ."
Link this video to wikipedia.
This safe obviously needed the Ultra-High-Security sponge.
Or a riveted gubbins container, so you can't just go in there and learn how it works without voiding the warranty. :P
Evidently it isn't Ultra-High-Security sponge-worthy. LOL
someone over at sentrysafe, when designing this particular safe, made a conscious decision to use a sponge and thin, easy to bend wires to keep the led lights in the holes right on the front of said safe.
there is a person dumb enough to decide that a sponge is safe enough.
let that sink in and despair.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Even a sheetmetal barrier between the circuit board and solenoid would have been enough to prohibit this attack, and cost about $0.05. Truly pathetic.
-dumb enough- *greedy and ruthless enough
The engineer made a proof of concept prototype using a sponge noting "replace with metal stand-offs later". Then the boss came. "How much are the stand-offs?" "$0.06 a piece, need 4 of them". "How much is the sponge?" "$0.13". "There, no need for stand-offs, it's perfect as it is."
there is someone who fired / refused to hire anyone who dared to point this out
Please note:
This video IS NOT sponsored by: "Sentry"
LOL!
True that. Way funny
To be fair to Sentry Safe they only claim their safes to be FIRE resistant...
@@ryszard68 who'd set your safe on fire after screwing your house 😂
I laughed out loud lmao
A few days later: safe opened with a stern stare
MattTheGamerHongKong he did it... he opened a lock by looking at it.
Nintendo Person
Damn ! Video number please ! 😂
@@zantetsuken55 Number 1036
lol !
With any of these electronic safes that rely on a solenoid, a strong magnet or bouncing the box works great. Kinetic energy pulling that solenoid open gives you a gap to open it same way bumping a lock works.
"Hi, I'm mr.badass calm voice and today I'll show to you this high security master blaster unpenetrable lock. Then I'll touch it with this common pencil and.. oh sorry, I already opened it. Well, this is all folks." LOOOOOOOOL this guy is a monster hahahaha
Next time I'm in the market for a safe or a lock, I'm going to have to dig through your archives to see if you've picked what I'm looking at and how long it took.
If the video is longer than 5 minutes - Buy it :p
A proper safe will cost thousands of dollars and not have a key nor will it have an electronic push buttons for the combination.
@@Reelix
Its smarter to watch exactly how long it took to pick. Sometimes he picks multiple locks or spends the first 4 minutes talking about other things before spending a few seconds picking
He has good locks on the show sometimes, but I don't think he has ever done a good safe or lockbox. I suspect they're too expensive just for the sake of a video and he doesn't want to show any safes he's actually using.
The best safe is simply hiding something where no one would expect to look or one that is too heavy to carry out of a house. Every other safe out there will do fine for keeping young kids out of things, maybe not savvy teenagers though who would find a video like this and break in.
Another factor is convenience. If a safe has a key hole, buttons, or fingerprint sensor on it then it will have more vulnerabilities. Combination locks seem to be the best. Or a safe that requires two types of keys or codes to open.
This safe’s security is the joke of the Sentry.
I get it!
Ah-haHAAA! (Family guy ostrich laugh)
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Ah I See what you did there 👌
That guy:... good grief! ... 😂😂😂
Your instruction were perfect and it took me 5 min to pick the lock. Great video!!
Today on: *"WHO DA HELL APPROVED THIS DESIGN??"*
Some one with no real world experience
But in all fairness may have believed it was a good design
We all get it wrong at times
pick pockets and ex-cons who got on their payroll after prison and rehabilitation that tax payers paid for. They're once again returning to their old careers as we speak.
Here is a clue, the SentrySafe he cut into had a MasterLock product info sticker.
can this be an actual thing? maybe a subreddit?
It's incredible baffling that with a few small modifications this attack could be avoided: separated circuit board for the LEDs, bolted to the door; physical separation between the circuits and the actual lock mechanism (a simple "I" shaped metal soldered between the parts should already be enough!)...
Of course, these are only to avoid this attack. A couple more modifications would improve the overall security of the whole thing. As it is right now, it's as safe as a drawer... :)
If i was a burglar, i would subscribe to this channel and have it ready during a break-in.
Robber: **CRASH** Breaks in.
"Oh look... hm....not familiar with this... model...UA-cam....Lockpickinglawyer........Oh here we go."
"Where is that closet...need a coat hanger..."
"Sweet! Got my trusty leathermen here, let me just bend this properly...and.... WOW. WOW."
If you were a burgler, you'd probably know most of these tricks -- its not like he's the sole source of this information.
@@MichaelBabcock yeah but he is an easily accessible source and most importantly he has a very diverse locks showings
If you broke into my house, I would have that safe as a decoy and rig it with a claymore.
@@slamdunktiger home owner: Hey, Get out of my house!! *cocks shotgun* you’re trespassing on private pro-wait, what? How did you open that?
Can someone please tell me why these videos are so compelling. I'm neither locksmith nor theif and have no need of this information but by jingo I do love them. Happy new year LPL. Hope.you have a great one
Why are these videos so compelling? Because they are pitting corporate marketeers and vendors of trash against competence and experience that is grown at home with enthusiasm and perseverance... and the home-made competence and experience wins every time. That is why you like them.
No really, everyone likes it when the "little guy" gives corporations the finger, and even more so when it is not just out of spite but by yanking their pants down and giving solid evidence of their inadequacies, inadequacies that do not at all match their boasting and their high promises for which they had the nerve to charge good money for.
This is basically a modern version of "Robin Hood"-type folklore, or the braggart being plucked down, like the "Hic Rhodus, hic salta" tale. Its just that it is _real_ and not just an uplifting tale.
1) LPL is a brilliant showman. he could do anything and it would be entertaining
2) the videos are very short and to the point, so your interest is piqued and satisfied without a chance to get bored
3) high technical skill is fascinating to watch
4) learning is compelling, and this is all new stuff to us.
5) LPL being calm, in an era of everyone shouting, is so respectful and relaxing
@@andy4an thank you for vocalising the thoughts I never knew I had and also get out of my head shaman lol
LPL picked our hearts
Michael Karnerfors - I bet you’re fun at parties
Worked flawlessly, thanks for the insight 👌🏽
"This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today I open this Master Lock safe with a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning."
Are you watching this video from an LPL appreciation chair?
Thank you, Douglas Adams!
42.
Wonder how the safe will stand up to a Vogon poetry attack! :-D
I want to like the comment but it’s up to 42 what do I do?
"High security sponge"
I wouldn't be surprised if LPL actually found a way to make sponge more secure than this safe.
Ikr. Next he'll be opening a safe with another safe, or even the same one.
Clearly it's Simple Entry Safe, not SentrySafe
CLEARLY it says Sentry Safe on it???
@@tokentonyg clearly you missed the joke
@@Saismee actually I did.. I suck. Sorry about that.
@@tokentonyg lol
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YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW SPECIFIC AND HELPFUL THIS WAS. Jokes aside, the battery ran out in our safe and we never had a key, just did this trick and tada! Thank you
Manufactures like that should be fined millions they are defrauding consumers
Then do it...
why should they be fined??, its a choise isnt it, buy a $100 euro safe, or buy a 1000 euro safe!.
Deterrence is far more effective than security.
Weird virtue virtue signaling, but ok
Sounds like you're saying automotive companies should be fined because the a thief broke into my car, even though it was locked, by smashing the window.
LPL: This is the LockPickingLawyer...
Lock: scared of it's life and > *opens itself*
This is the LPL.
And today I'm going to open this safe with will power alone..
( LPL stares at Safe - pops open)
Today I thought about going to buy a lock, but all of the locks popped open from that thought alone. As always, have a nice day
Jfc that's some low effort Reddit shit. Fuck off with the formulaic copypastas
Hupe remember Austin powers gold member? Michael Caine addressing henchman... “ you don’t even have a name tag, Judo chop”
I’m trying to get a decent safe and literally every single one I consider I find a video from LPL easily busting it open. Lmao this is like a mini challenge for me at this point
What do you need to hide? Your best bet is a whole cut in the wall. With a mirror or pics over it, or building a shelf mounted to the wall that opens.
@@J.T.19134 I need a locked container to keep my pistol in. I actually ended up buying this safe, I took it apart and replaced the sponge and put an obstacle so doing this coat hanger method will be nearly impossible. It is also concealed behind a fake wall panel of my shelf so it should be “good enough” but I know LPL would probably disapprove.
@@Vladimir_Popik Google " Mosler cash safe" You should find what you are looking for. They don't come cheap. Made in USA.
Every house I lived in, I put in a fake cold air return that has a baffle and a latch to get to the goodies. Cheap easy to get to, and if it looks like part of the house, nobody would suspect it's there.
The best kind of safe is the kind that A) nobody knows you have and B) they still don't know you have when they are staring at it and C) nobody can figure out how to open because you designed and built it yourself. Mine is such a safe. I have guests over all the time and many will stare right at my safe and have no idea it's a safe and even if I pointed it out to them they are not getting it open mechanically. There are only two ways to open it, one watch me open it and learn or two, a lot of explosives. Of course long before that you will have to defeat the hidden non electronic alarm system and you are going to have to make friends with Scarface, my rescue pet who snacks on armadillos and snapping turtles and has survived after being shot 27 times and not by bb's.
If you don't want to go through all the trouble I have I suggest you find an old (100 year old +) combo safe, make sure the mechanicals are in working order then cut a hole in either your foundation or in the basement floor and recess it in there and hide it behind either a concrete door that fits so tight that you can't see the seams or under a heavy concrete trap door and then cover the whole floor with carpet. Few people will think to look past the foundation wall or a concrete basement floor. Yes it will take effort to open the door that the safe is hid behind but then you don't want it to be easy. Look into hidden pin latches as a way to secure the door. I learned about them in a book on magic when I was a kid. Once you know how they work they are relatively easy to install and nearly impossible for a safe cracker to figure out. Poor concrete in the space around the safe so they find it ridiculously challenging to pull the safe out of the wall or floor. Then decorate the basement room that your safe is in with a lot of worthless junk that no one would suspect is camouflaging something valuable. NEVER have any kind of electric or electronic locking mechanism they are prone to failure as this video demonstrates. Find a nice affectionate and highly territorial rescue animal. Mine is a very large cat that adores me but is otherwise very paranoid and hates unexpected visitors. She literally rips open an armadillo in 30 seconds and takes only a little longer to extract a full grown snapping turtle from it's shell. Scarface isn't really cute to be honest but I NEVER have to worry about burglars.
Nobody who has ever visited my home knows about my safe That's the best way to protect your stuff.
Thanks! I did it too! So much easier than cutting it open after losing the keys. Thanks a ton, LPL.
Awesome, he teaches you how to steal, then you get caught, and he represents you at trial. Genius!
"Your honor it wasn't my client's fault they should have made it harder to pick"
@@evangelist6277 😂😂😂
Synergy!
I really like the thick, heavy, solid-looking pins, held in place by some 24ga sheet metal
They're called bolts.
You are correct that the bolts are solid-looking. They are also thick-looking, and heavy-looking.
This isn't the first time a High Security Sponge failed. On the bright side, Timmy turns 6 next month and is the best speller in his class.
Thank You for educating the house breaking individuals who did not know how to do this.
I’m amazed you got through that SentrySafe security sponge to open that Unsafe Safe. Sentry safe security sponge is generally acknowledged as the safest safe sponge in the world.
Way too many people feel like Schmucks for buying “Safes” just like this.
I mean .... its cost vs who would be able to/ knows how to break in. Not to mention just for the fire protection. But there are wayyyyyy better ones then this for the same price.
At the end of the day there is none that's unbreakable! "Someone smart enough with some time in their hands will develop a technique/tool to break in just like the engineer that designed it! It's always going to be a cat and mouse game..
if it's to keep out the casual roommate, sibling, or parent who might discretely lift cash out of that unsealed envelope in your desk drawer where you keep the cash tips you get from your job waiting tables, or like you said for fireproofing, it seems okay especially if it's cheap, but yeah don't buy this for real proper family heirlooms or large sums of money.
I do.
FXDR-S1000R Eli C. -yep, you got that right. I need to adjust the L on my forehead
I wonder if CEO’s cry when they see one of their companies products on this channel..
No they don't. They know exactly that they are making garbage and are doing so 100% consciously, just to make money.
@@TheMennoXD except when LPL hosts a product and proves it is garbage to the public, their sales likely go down at least by a bit. So yes, I would say lock companies hate their products being tested on this channel.
@@13vatra This channel doesn't dent sales in the slightest
@@machina5 he's got 1 million people that are subscribed, and of course the likely equal number of viewers that aren't subscribed. Lock companies often send him products to see his feedback. On several occasions after giving a lock a bad review, both locks sent by companies and ones he picked up himself, companies have sent him the newest version of that lock to try and defend their reputation with. Early on several lock companies tried to get his channel deleted and even tried to claim his videos. Sure sounds like he's making a dent to me, companies just don't put that much effort into things they feel aren't affecting them. I'm not saying it's a huge dent, but a dent nonetheless.
I actually own this safe. It’s just good enough to keep things out of access for my little kids. That’s it. I have zero illusions about it being secure against anyone with a brain or any strength. And if they didn’t want to take the time to open it in my house they’d simply pull up on it ripping the thin metal the screws are in to hold it down then open it whenever they wish. But it does well for keeping ammunition in small amounts and prescription medications out of access for my 7 year old daughter.
Keep your kids away from his channel then XD
Try this, you’ll be very upset about it, turn your dial like youre trying to open it, just has to be at the point it stops moving, then with your open hand, smack the top of the safe while turning the dial at the same time, the safe will pop open, a common smack’s shockwave allows you to turn the dial and open these little safes..
Where do you live?
@@rainierbettonviel5989 why does that matter for any of the above comments?
I pick mine with pair of toe nail clippers lost my keys
What’s interesting is that he’s also provided anyone with this safe a fix to make it more secure. Just screw in a piece of 90* angle iron to shield/protect the solenoid. Exchange the sponge for a piece of steel/hard plastic/or even hard wood, screwed to the inside cover that he took off, to hold the circuit board in place. Also change the solenoid spring to a much stronger one. Now you have a pretty secure safe, that’s at least not as easy to pick open, or bounce on something to compress the spring and open.
If you make the spring too strong, the battery operated solenoid won’t be able to pull it in. The dead-battery bypass lock you see above said solenoid is easily pickable with a $5 tool. As a noob, it took me, three, seconds... I think even a plastic bracket, glued to the door between the solenoid and circuit board will thwart the coathanger approach. Especially if you use some epoxy or even silicone.
Or simply shield the solenoid to prevent direct access to the plunger.
And all of that work would be pointless when you look at the front of the safe. There is a set of keys shown in the video, and you can see on the side of the number pad where the cover for the wafer lock this thing has as an option to open the safe is, meaning it's prone to a low skill attack of just having that lock raked open.
I’ll be honest, I hate all these modern “cheap” safes. I’m talking about these ones on up to the larger gun safes, that don’t use solid steel for the walls and doors. No matter how good the lock is, or how many locking bolts the doors have, it just takes a medium size hammer (or a smaller sledge) and an angle grinder or something similar to just cut through it in a few minutes. It’s actually pretty ridiculous…and I own one of these. They’re hilariously cheesy…they’re just basically a large “lock-box” that may keep your kids out (and might save ur stuff in a fire), but won’t keep out someone with actual intent on getting in quickly.
I've seen these types of safes in hotel rooms and by merely hitting the top of the safe with my fist (to bounce the solenoid) and turn the knob at the correct time, they can be opened without any tools whatsoever.
Check out video 1108
Omg. Thank you SO MUCH!!! I couldn’t get it at all until I read this
Hotel safes aren't....
They are a requirement of the hotel's insurance. As you stated, they can be opened with a sharp knock. There again, if you've used it to store your Cartier watch or whatever & you're robbed, the hotel's insurance *may* pay out (hopefully!)
@@stephenphillip5656 Hotel Insurance? Good luck with that in Asia, Central & South America. LOL
@@stephenphillip5656 when I'm at a hotel or an airbnb I store my omega watch wrapped up in dirty undies. I even get a chocolate bar and put a strategic brown stain on them.
Thus far this has been a pretty good security measure.
Imagine being a normal person (who doesn't watch lock picking videos for fun). You buy that safe, thinking it provides adequate security for your valuables. One day, maybe in a year or two from now, you forget the code, and start searching for ways to bypass the lock. After a bit of searching, you stumble upon this video. You start playing the video and your heart sinks, when you realize nothing you ever stored in there was actually safe.
Technically none of your stuff is safe. Even if you have the most advanced hard to pick lock on the market it is usually next to a easy to break piece of glass. Locks are to keep honest people honest.
Wow, you are a rescuer, mine id out of battery and lost the keys. Now I can open it with a hanger.
Thanks a lots