@@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.
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
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..
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.
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.
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'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
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
@@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
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!
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!
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-
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.
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!!!
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
After a few frustrating days and a few bent coathangers later, it does work. Just got to find that sweet spot. Alas, the only thing inside rattling around was the bag of mounting bolts and the little teardrop-shaped keyhole cover. No treasure.😪 After watching your videos, Master locks and Sentry safes are off my list. Thanks for all of your info,
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.
"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."
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
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.
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..
You are the man! lost my keys and batteries died. I'm moving and i had bolted the safe down and couldn't remove it without getting inside to the nuts. Got in if 5 seconds!!!! Thank you!!
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.
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.
@@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.
welp you saved my butt today, I'm a manager and switched the code on one of these bad boys today, made sure the code worked before I shut it... but forgot to shut the battery door.. 😂 safe locked, key inside and no power to the keypad because the batteries popped out - an hour and a half later and I was in! Thank you LPL!
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.
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.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! We have this safe and couldn't get in because the keypad battery died and we lost the key. I have zero lock picking experience and was able to pick the lock on this safe following this video. Took me about 10 minutes!!
@@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.
I used to own this exact same safe 😂 thankfully never really stored anything of much value in there but this is wild to see how easily you were able to break into it
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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.
Thank you, Thank you! My little key broke in half, I had no batteries in the safe, and I was willing to try anything (including drilling and smashing!). This worked perfectly! I did spend some time on pause with an exact picture of the shape and size the hanger needed to be, but after that it took 1 minute... TaDa! Thank you again for you help. I couldn't find a replacement key. I will use batteries for now until I get a new safe.
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."
![[1045] Swiss Army Knife Bypass of Keypad Lock](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ANsipsS7IK8/mqdefault.jpg)
![[756] Sentry Safe Cut in Half FAST!](/img/n.gif)
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.
🤣
"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?
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
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. 😳
-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.
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.
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.
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...
"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.
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
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.
LPL: "It's held in place with a sponge..."
Me: Hahaha, well that's a mean way to put it
...
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.
"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
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.
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
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
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...
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!
Your DIY was perfect, opened my safe under a minute! And yes the white security sponge was high tech. Thank you!
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”
I’m dying 😂
Same
Spongebob's promotion from being the hall monitor.
F
My thoughts exactly...
@Homedepot should be ashamed they sell this crap
Never underestimate a Coat Hangar. They are a really powerful tool.
…”nothing I can’t achieve with duct tape & a coat hanger” 😂
@@user-hp5wo3db3j True. Powerful tools indeed.
They can even hack anti abortion laws
“High security sponge” might be the funniest thing ever said on this channel
I still think the best bit was everything from the 'Mrs LPL HATES this video' clip is still the best.
“High Security Sponge” = SAVAGE
*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!
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!
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.
👍🏼🤣
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-
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.
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!!!
"... 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" ))))
"Here we have our high security sponge"
LMAO
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!
Thank you so much, after so many videos and tries my husband got to opened our safe. Regards
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
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.
“Here we have our high security sponge”
Made me smile 😊
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.
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 😂
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
Your instruction were perfect and it took me 5 min to pick the lock. Great video!!
Thank You for educating the house breaking individuals who did not know how to do this.
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.
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.
After a few frustrating days and a few bent coathangers later, it does work. Just got to find that sweet spot. Alas, the only thing inside rattling around was the bag of mounting bolts and the little teardrop-shaped keyhole cover. No treasure.😪 After watching your videos, Master locks and Sentry safes are off my list. Thanks for all of your info,
I almost ordered one of these today. Good thing I saw this first. Thanks for the video!
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.
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.
love your videos ! your an animal on locks ! i lol when you make it look so easy using a coat hanger, paper clip, etc. very informative n eye opening.
Your definitely driving lock and safe companies crazy. The stuff you do is amazing
"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
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.
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
Thanks! I did it too! So much easier than cutting it open after losing the keys. Thanks a ton, LPL.
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.
🤦🏻♂️🤣. 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
Man I appreciate this so much big dawg
Well you see, this is actually the type of safe that's perfect to store anything you'll never need again. Like the keys to this safe.
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.
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.
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
I love the at this literally just helped me break into the exact same safe that I locked the key inside of. God bless you.
“High security sponge” absolutely brutal. I loved it
Heyo its the funny DnD guy. mad respect for your channel
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😅
This guy ALWAYS puts up fascinating shit. Excellent production, great explanation, just good stuff.
You are the man! lost my keys and batteries died. I'm moving and i had bolted the safe down and couldn't remove it without getting inside to the nuts. Got in if 5 seconds!!!! Thank you!!
"High Security Sponge" TM
*HighSecuritySponge™️*
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
Thank u for ur service. U have rescued my concealed carry gun from dead batteries and a lost key.
Worked like a charm and saved me $150…much appreciated
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 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.
Found this just in time, thanks LPL!
welp you saved my butt today, I'm a manager and switched the code on one of these bad boys today, made sure the code worked before I shut it... but forgot to shut the battery door.. 😂
safe locked, key inside and no power to the keypad because the batteries popped out - an hour and a half later and I was in! Thank you LPL!
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"
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.
i feel like you have killed my *gasp moment and replaced it with *grabs popcorn action, great content as usual
thank you there one of these I was left and need to get in and check out this is much better than my cutting torch
"Hello, this is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and..."
Safe door opens and runs away.
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.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! We have this safe and couldn't get in because the keypad battery died and we lost the key. I have zero lock picking experience and was able to pick the lock on this safe following this video. Took me about 10 minutes!!
Thank you very much. I was worry for 3 weeks until I found your video.
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.
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
Worked flawlessly, thanks for the insight 👌🏽
I used to own this exact same safe 😂 thankfully never really stored anything of much value in there but this is wild to see how easily you were able to break into it
"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.
"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.
These vids show that locks keep honest people honest and provide little security
My mother in law purchased a house that had one wall mounted in the closet. I successfully opened it with a coat hanger to unmount it. Thank you lol
"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.
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
Thank you, Thank you! My little key broke in half, I had no batteries in the safe, and I was willing to try anything (including drilling and smashing!). This worked perfectly! I did spend some time on pause with an exact picture of the shape and size the hanger needed to be, but after that it took 1 minute... TaDa! Thank you again for you help. I couldn't find a replacement key. I will use batteries for now until I get a new safe.
Love your videos, you make it look so easy .
"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......
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
I know this video is three years old but, IT WORKS!!! Thank you sir, I now my passport back again.
Yo my dude this trick right here really works. Mad props 👊🏾