By the time the cops arrive the burglars done ransacked your store of what they were after and then some and are long gone. At least you can make a police report and turn it in to your insurance company.
@Fred brandon Many shops in the UK now have bollards in front to stop Ram Raiding that became popular in the 1990s. Later on we had an issue with terrorism, so London bridges and other places have barriers to stop ramming pedestrians or using a truck bomb. But this expense is up to the government, not small shop owners.
At this point, it’s as effective but much cheaper not to have a lock, but rather just putting a “Please, don’t open if you’re not supposed to” printed notice on the door 🤣
@@ravensshade Obviously you can't leave it unsecured though the opposite can be true if you get house insurance that requires a second lock or an alarm all you are doing is increasing the chance they are not going to pay out if you forget. I was advised by muliple broker never to get house insurance that requires the alarm to be or a second lock. In fact it turn out they were able to get cheaper insurance that don;t require he alarm to be on, that even they were surprised about. There nothing stopping you using the alarm, or a second lock, just don't do in order to get "better" insurance.
I live in a strange neighborhood. We all have beautiful lawns, but some folks feel compelled to put small notices on their lawns asking dog owners not to let their dogs go pee/pooh on their lawns. I'm blown away that rude humans become good humans when they see a sign asking them to be nice. I have no idea if the signs work, though. I refuse to put signs out and I'm not seeing any doggy-damage.
I have one of those sliding glass doors leading out to my deck. When I bought this place there was a piece of wood laying next to the glass doors. I asked what it was for. I was told "That's an anti-theft device. These glass doors aren't very secure so this piece of wood goes behind the door that slides to prevent it from being opened". That piece of wood is 100x more secure than the lock itself. 🤣🤣
Related pro-tip from a window/door service tech: The glass units in windows on many commercial buildings can be removed and re-installed, non-destructively. Only takes about 5 minutes with the proper knowledge and a suction cup :)
I have the kit and we tested all the tools at our shop. We find that it will only work on cylinders that are 1" or 1 & 1/8 inches. If it's 1 1/4" and above it can't reach to the back of the cylinder without bending to the point it likely wouldn't bend back. 6 pin locks are also very difficult, even in 1" 1/8. Don't expect this to work well on Yale, Sargent or almost any keyway other than Kwikset and most Schlage keyway family. It's very difficult to wiggle to the back of any cylinders that have a lip in the back of the plug where the cam is. Also, it seems to have a very hard time on original Adams Rite mechanisms and seems to be more effective with slightly worn, after market narrowstile, particularly less backset just as the one in this video (in other words this video demonstrates every most ideal scenario for this to look easy. Aftermarket, 5 pin, sc1 keyway 1" cylinder with no obstruction in the back of the plug, mounted on an aftermarket 31/32 narrow stile, slightly worn) don't get frustrated if it doesn't work for you on every lock, it has to have the right conditions and does require practice.
@@brendanf8969 definitely won't. The housing of SFIC, if you look inside, is a flat circle plate with 2 male prongs sticking out that ensure your plug can actuate the lock properly. The plug is also too small for this bypass tool to fit anyway. I haven't tested an LFIC, as just the plug, but the housing for those also has a flat cam in the back so it wouldn't matter. Those are a good solution to prevent this sort of attack LPL is demonstrating.
I am into locksport and have no reason to want any of these tools. What's the point of being able to open commercial doors? I don't own a commercial door...
LPL, Covert Instruments and the bypass kit....What a wonderful time to be alive..... Although I am quite sure the manufacturing companies of locks and latches are now crapping their collective pants...
If they would be, they'd actually change something eventually. And since these vids are not a new thing and yet they aren't, they clearly don't feel no impact whatsoever.
This man single-handedly taught the world how to exploit simple door locks and padlocks to complex industrial doors thank you the lockpickinglawyer thank you (those of us in a zombie apocalypse in the future)
I'm just about to do a course at master lock Smith association and I've watched all you're videos and after time lots and lots of time I have learned loads and have bought most you're locks and lock picks the one thing I'm struggling with of all things is a padlock with the 8 discs you have to turn I will get there thankyou for you're help much appreciated
kind of reminds me of our high super secuirty mega doors at school. that i "picked" open with just half a scissor. door had such a big gap between door and frame... because it needed that for the big heavy thick "safetypanel" to clear it all the way. Could just slowly scoop the door bolt to the side with the scissor and open it...
Lock picking is something I have never done, however, I found LPL voice very pleasing, his comments so funny and his dexterity so delightful that I am subscribed just to amaze me in the same way I love to watch magicians do their tricks. Thank you very much, sir.
These kits are so useful for breaking into my friends houses. Thank you. I just need a kit for getting out of a felony. I guess you are the best person to ask for both lol
The locks on my store latch at the top and bottom of the door. Full glass doors on a 24 hour gas station, but even with both doors locked there is nothing going in between them... also before someone asks a 24 hour store has locks so the employee can go to the bathroom, stock the cooler, or something else when he can't watch the store! Double also we don't get meal breaks (or any real breaks) so if you see one of us trying to eat buy your $h!t and leave! Don't try to engage us with conversion or ask for stupid things. 1:30 AM and I still can't have 3 bites of a hot meal!!! Sorry just had to vent that frustration.
@@johndododoe1411 9 times out of 10 you're fine. But if a guy has fork in his hand or food in his mouth, let him eat! Its one of the simplest yet most enjoyable pleasures in this world. And I can't tell you how many times I've been denied it and my food has gone cold without me getting more than 2 bites undisturbed. Also if nothing else thank you for listening and replying!
Made one of these at work thats a lil more robust and its got enough torque to pull the same trick on the swingbolts and hookbolts. One issue with those tho is some cylinders are screwed in too close to that dividing bar in the middle but none the less ive gotten a few opens with it
This seems to be just a US thing. Here in Europe, most of these glass window doors have some kind of protection against slipping a tool between the door and the frame. I do not believe that many standard eurolocks provide such an easy way to bypass the lock entirely, at least I hope so. Maybe LPL can show this in a future video.
I just locked myself out of my bedroom and thought I was going to have to miss the session tonight, but then I remembered what LPL taught me, and jiggled a random key in the key hole, until I jammed the lock open, and busted my door open with next to no damage to my door frame. Thank you
1:25 If the rear of the lock were shielded, an interesting semi-destructive attack would be to drill a small hole in the shield via keyhole and then use the tool in the video to open the lock. That attack could be divided because it's not expected that anybody would notice the hole in the shield so the attacker could drill the hole first, wait for weeks or months and then access the door and rapidly open it.
If you have a front door on your store that uses these locks, I would put a bar across it on the inside and exit the rear door that is usually a steel door.
Around here most have a steel gate they close behind the glass doors, the steel gate being locked from the inside with no exterior lock access. Employee access is through rear steel doors. The locks on the glass doors are just to keep them from being opened in the wind/etc. and aren't for security.
@@psirvent8 Around here most are sliding gate - we're not as hardcore as New York or Chicago where they have the rolling shutters. These are "behind" the glass - so if you broke the glass or picked the glass door lock you're faced with a steel gate that is locked and accessed from the inside and you're not getting any further. The locks on the glass doors are just to keep them closed in weather etc, and remind folks the businesses are closed and no one should be trying to go in. Very few places have just the glass commercial door as their security - mostly restaurants and other places with low value inventory - and they mostly have no external key and internal deadbolt activating - no one leaves and locks up through the front glass door.
@@offshack Thank's for the reply. Here in France it's roller shutters everywhere funnily enough, it doesn't matter if it's a small shop, a grocery store or a giant mall, roller shutters definitely are the most common gate in front of the glass entrance doors. Some older downtown shops might still have sliding gates but that's clearly the exception and not the norm.
It is a very fun pastime. Like a puzzle. All you need to know to practice is on his videos, a set of pucks, and some pad locks that you can find in your drug store or pharmacy.
As a closer to a chain that uses these doors, had i had one of these pick thingys it would save me a lot of pain forgetting something inside the locked store
Yes I did find it helpful as I intend to use a dead bold with no lock at all on my main door as I want to use s strike plate instead. Which means the front door has zero locks on them and can only be opened by pin code or rfid card or fob. I will have other doors out of site that will have key entry incause said entry were to fail.
Not sure if you ever heard of Atlas Survival Shelters but they claim that you can NOT (or have extreme difficulty) pick their locks. I don't think the lock itself is all that secure since it is a master's puck lock but more the fact of the thick steel frame over it. That lock is to prevent people from entering secure shelters so the value inside is normally high, so you don't want a good lock but a great lock.
So that's what it is for 🤯 now we can all sleep at night without lying there awake thinking about that video that reviewed this set and nobody quite worked out what that tool was for.
So here's a question for you: are there ANY benefits to having an unshielded core, or is it literally just a matter of extreme cheapness and laziness?? It seems like such an obvious fix to a non-lockpicker like me but I perhaps naively think there must be SOME reason they keep getting made...
Likely it's simplicity of design. Also, as many people state on every video, a burglar is more likely to just smash the glass. Bricks are cheaper than lockpicks, and no amount of shielded keyway will stop them.
Don't know for sure, but I had always assumed it was to leave a way for dirt/gunk/water to get out. With the hole there, any dirt which gets in the lock simply gets pushed out the back, and if it's tilted back slightly any water will just run out the back instead of building up and freezing.
LPL, we own a business with this type of door owned by the rental agency. Thank you for the heads up. While I prefer criminals and first responders to pick the lock and trip the alarm rather than bust the window and trip the alarm, I *assumed* the bolt lock was better for the second metal door.
a note to all people who run businesses that use that kind of lock. because of how easy it is to open it may be a good idea to have a motion detector connected to an alarm so if someone does try to burglarize the store the alarm should still help protect too. i would say to shield the lock but if the lock is on a door to a critical location where the fire department may have to get in after hours it would slow them too. also code may dictate security features too
@@psirvent8 that would work if the glass is thin like car window and even not tempered like safety glass. many glass doors used for commercial use are much thicker .
I'm sure between the weight of the metal on the end of the fire hoses, fire axes, saws, jaws of life, and likely a battering ram, they can get through any door short of a panic room.
Can't believe the lock makers haven't given you $100,000,000 just to disappear and have a good life ,absent locks . Always enjoy your vids .God bless .
1. No significant impact on sales. Orders of magnitude smaller than shrinkage, so just noise. 2. Some vulnerabilities, like the ones of this vid, are intentional from a practical standpoint. 3. $100,000,000 undervalues LPL's value. He's a treasure.
Hello, Im locksmith, in central Europe and i have a question: what is the point of money in America, when everything you would need or want is protected like this?
I need the Adams Rite wire tool and padlock bypass tool as separate items, because I already have all the other tools in that kit... Genesis set, with credit card door slip, 4 comb set, notched decoder bundle, and commercial door hook in the original black trade craft case. basically, combine the Arbitor and Genisis sets in one case, I've been calling it my Low Profile Lock set, or LPL for short :) (if you use that idea please send me a patch, I'm not picky!)
Do you think they intentionally left the shield out to allow this kind of access by a skilled locksmith? Or was it just a cost-cutting thing? It seems like a shield wouldn't cost much to add.
I wish lock manufacturers learned something from LPL videos, to make more secure products... 😅 but even if they do, and it's not always the case, LPL has always a new weapon in his arsenal.
Just out of curiosity, if they did make locks unpickable then what would happen if people got locked out. Perhaps lock companies are just trying to find balance between basic security and the ability to get in in worse case scenario. I can't think of any house break in where a lock was picked. Break a windows or find an open door or window. What's the point of making a 100% unpickable lock.
Good morning LPL ! Thank you for all your videos. I have a question and it might have been already answered before, but when attempting to pick a lock, how do you discern what type of core is inside and, therefore, which will tool to use ? Thanks !
Ha. Watching the ease of bypasses here really drives home that the illusion of safety is more important to the general populace than is having actual safety.
At this point I keep finding pieces of spring steel from street sweepers and I make my own picks that work really well and I can bend them easily.... Or mod them then just make another. Plus they're cheaper than a pick set.... LoL
Security through obscurity isn't actually secure. It's better that exploits like these are known and fixed (if possible) rather than leaving people a false sense of security.
By making the burglary easy and accessible, thereby raising public awareness, he's forcing market pressures on the lock companies to try and innovate and fix these flaws. We'll see if they actually do it or not, but that's a whole other issue.
You will be surprised just how many of the hook bolt style you can open with a pen knife if the hook does not throw over 100% you can literally just Lift the hook with a knife also if you have doors with these locks check the keep make sure no one has added a little bit to the opening found so many like that totally insecure .. i dont work any longer due to spinal problems but it was a common call to problems with those things
Can you buy just that tool? I have the one for Ms locks on the Adam's rite both of them actually from covert instruments. I'm a Glazier don't need the whole set. Just the ones that pertain to my work.
i have no idea why but the idea of like a grandparent lpl picking locks instead of like the old stereotype of grandmas knitting. is very funny to my brain.
Wow, the tool is so thin that it looks like it would bend when turning against the mechanism. I guess it's either stronger than it looks, or the lock doesn't take as much force as I'm assuming?
I have a name for such appliances, TSA, or Theatrical Security Appliance. Of course it is derived from the TSA we all know and love, Theatrical Security Agency, found wherever Americans travel to give them the good feeling they are traveling safely due to restricted rights, confiscated by the government...
HMM going to add that to my entry tools kit. We only have a few doors like that in the fire district but I'm betting the owners would rather not have the damage a typical K-tool does.
Have you ever made a video trying out various TV/movie picking tools? Like credit cards, hair pins, sunglasses etc? I remember an episode of MacGyver where he used the filament supports from a lightbulb, which even if they're tungsten, that seems unlikely.
Question. When you demonstrate the second mechanism you call it a dead latch. Isn't the thing you press with your thumb technically the latch bolt and the thing below that which keeps the latch bolt from being able to be pressed when the door is shut called the dead latch, or have I been using the wrong term my whole life.
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Thank you. You just showed me how important it is to set the alarm in my store. Because the lock isn’t doing anything.
By all the retailers that are slamming San Francisco, you're better off not having a retail store
By the time the cops arrive the burglars done ransacked your store of what they were after and then some and are long gone. At least you can make a police report and turn it in to your insurance company.
@Fred brandon Many shops in the UK now have bollards in front to stop Ram Raiding that became popular in the 1990s. Later on we had an issue with terrorism, so London bridges and other places have barriers to stop ramming pedestrians or using a truck bomb. But this expense is up to the government, not small shop owners.
@Fred brandon and the third time it happens your spending the night in the back room with one eye open and a 9mm in your hand patiently waiting.
@Fred brandon 😳😆😆
Thanks for showing how this works from all angles. I’m not a lock sport practitioner. I just love your presentation and ingenuity.
Yeah, I don’t even own picks.
I got some sets of his and 👌👍.... Been a lock sport practitioner and never looked back 😎
Yeah, well, don't believe all you see.
At this point, it’s as effective but much cheaper not to have a lock, but rather just putting a “Please, don’t open if you’re not supposed to” printed notice on the door 🤣
^Someone's always gotta come in and just ruin the joke
@@ravensshade Obviously you can't leave it unsecured though the opposite can be true if you get house insurance that requires a second lock or an alarm all you are doing is increasing the chance they are not going to pay out if you forget. I was advised by muliple broker never to get house insurance that requires the alarm to be or a second lock. In fact it turn out they were able to get cheaper insurance that don;t require he alarm to be on, that even they were surprised about.
There nothing stopping you using the alarm, or a second lock, just don't do in order to get "better" insurance.
I live in a strange neighborhood. We all have beautiful lawns, but some folks feel compelled to put small notices on their lawns asking dog owners not to let their dogs go pee/pooh on their lawns.
I'm blown away that rude humans become good humans when they see a sign asking them to be nice. I have no idea if the signs work, though. I refuse to put signs out and I'm not seeing any doggy-damage.
Monkes wouldn't respect that tho so lock it is
Put a standard lock plus a sign that says "LPL took 10 minutes to open this one". xD
I have one of those sliding glass doors leading out to my deck. When I bought this place there was a piece of wood laying next to the glass doors. I asked what it was for. I was told "That's an anti-theft device. These glass doors aren't very secure so this piece of wood goes behind the door that slides to prevent it from being opened". That piece of wood is 100x more secure than the lock itself. 🤣🤣
That is the truth!
Word!
The place I live at came with the piece of wood in the backdoor too! I see it is a common practice and not the previous tenants paranoia 😂.
Have one in my slider track also. Best locking device ever.
You just have to make sure that the wood is angling the right way or it's still useless.
You should make a playlist that includes how to use each of these bypass tools, that way someone with the set can have a quick reference.
I agree
I, too, agree.
There is one. It is linked via qr code when you buy the set. Or just search the arbiter bypass kit
“Once again we got this open” never gets old.
I was so happy that I could help!
Funny how a single piece of metal is all that is required to defeat both tools yet lock makers just don't do it.
"Eh... good enough." is corporate America's motto after all. 😅
Especially the open cylinder attack which is a very traditional method for cheap padlocks.
They're banking heavily on public ignorance.
It's not a flaw but a feature lol
The newer style Adams-Rite bolts are shielded against this attack. Plenty of older locks still i use though.
Related pro-tip from a window/door service tech:
The glass units in windows on many commercial buildings can be removed and re-installed, non-destructively. Only takes about 5 minutes with the proper knowledge and a suction cup :)
I kist thought of that yesterday. A glass guy came to replace a window and said he can do everything he needs to from the outside.
I knew a glass guy who had his shop burglarized that way, it must have been another glass guy.
I have the kit and we tested all the tools at our shop. We find that it will only work on cylinders that are 1" or 1 & 1/8 inches. If it's 1 1/4" and above it can't reach to the back of the cylinder without bending to the point it likely wouldn't bend back. 6 pin locks are also very difficult, even in 1" 1/8. Don't expect this to work well on Yale, Sargent or almost any keyway other than Kwikset and most Schlage keyway family. It's very difficult to wiggle to the back of any cylinders that have a lip in the back of the plug where the cam is. Also, it seems to have a very hard time on original Adams Rite mechanisms and seems to be more effective with slightly worn, after market narrowstile, particularly less backset just as the one in this video (in other words this video demonstrates every most ideal scenario for this to look easy. Aftermarket, 5 pin, sc1 keyway 1" cylinder with no obstruction in the back of the plug, mounted on an aftermarket 31/32 narrow stile, slightly worn) don't get frustrated if it doesn't work for you on every lock, it has to have the right conditions and does require practice.
Well said. And thanks, you just saved me a bunch of time testing the stuff in my old parts bin.
I’m guessing this also wouldn’t work on best IC cylinders?
@@brendanf8969 definitely won't. The housing of SFIC, if you look inside, is a flat circle plate with 2 male prongs sticking out that ensure your plug can actuate the lock properly. The plug is also too small for this bypass tool to fit anyway. I haven't tested an LFIC, as just the plug, but the housing for those also has a flat cam in the back so it wouldn't matter. Those are a good solution to prevent this sort of attack LPL is demonstrating.
You should make a video.
@@JohnDlugosz yes, I agree. It would be a great video.
Even if you are not into locksport, after this demonstration of the tools you want a set of these. Great video.
I am into locksport and have no reason to want any of these tools.
What's the point of being able to open commercial doors? I don't own a commercial door...
Maybe I forgot a smiley.
Even if you are not into locksport, after this demonstration of the tools you want a new lock on your front door...
LPL, Covert Instruments and the bypass kit....What a wonderful time to be alive..... Although I am quite sure the manufacturing companies of locks and latches are now crapping their collective pants...
If they would be, they'd actually change something eventually. And since these vids are not a new thing and yet they aren't, they clearly don't feel no impact whatsoever.
@@AttilaAsztalos to our enjoyment, you are correct. If they did improve LPL might not have a niche.
Unfortunately, they take the crap out of their pants and market it as Master Lock products
Is that a "Two Minute Papers" reference?
You would be too, if you were peddling a false sense of security.
This man single-handedly taught the world how to exploit simple door locks and padlocks to complex industrial doors thank you the lockpickinglawyer thank you (those of us in a zombie apocalypse in the future)
This has probably been said many times, but I'd like to see you make more "in the field" type of videos.
I'm just about to do a course at master lock Smith association and I've watched all you're videos and after time lots and lots of time I have learned loads and have bought most you're locks and lock picks the one thing I'm struggling with of all things is a padlock with the 8 discs you have to turn I will get there thankyou for you're help much appreciated
Thank you! Watergate 2 is going to be so much fun this time.
You started a UA-cam channel years ago and now look at you! You have over 4 million subscribers and your own store. Good for you
kind of reminds me of our high super secuirty mega doors at school. that i "picked" open with just half a scissor.
door had such a big gap between door and frame... because it needed that for the big heavy thick "safetypanel" to clear it all the way.
Could just slowly scoop the door bolt to the side with the scissor and open it...
Lock picking is something I have never done, however, I found LPL voice very pleasing, his comments so funny and his dexterity so delightful that I am subscribed just to amaze me in the same way I love to watch magicians do their tricks. Thank you very much, sir.
Hopefully you found his April Fools Day collection.
Always a bonus to see exactly how the mechanism works. As always, I hope you have a nice day!
These kits are so useful for breaking into my friends houses. Thank you.
I just need a kit for getting out of a felony. I guess you are the best person to ask for both lol
The locks on my store latch at the top and bottom of the door. Full glass doors on a 24 hour gas station, but even with both doors locked there is nothing going in between them... also before someone asks a 24 hour store has locks so the employee can go to the bathroom, stock the cooler, or something else when he can't watch the store!
Double also we don't get meal breaks (or any real breaks) so if you see one of us trying to eat buy your $h!t and leave! Don't try to engage us with conversion or ask for stupid things. 1:30 AM and I still can't have 3 bites of a hot meal!!! Sorry just had to vent that frustration.
Thanks for the tip. I often try to make conversation with store clerks, hoping to brighten their day . Nice to know when it would do the opposite .
@@johndododoe1411 9 times out of 10 you're fine. But if a guy has fork in his hand or food in his mouth, let him eat! Its one of the simplest yet most enjoyable pleasures in this world. And I can't tell you how many times I've been denied it and my food has gone cold without me getting more than 2 bites undisturbed.
Also if nothing else thank you for listening and replying!
LPL’s talking hands were in my dream recently. They were very helpful in a conversation involving lock picking.
Let's dream this one more time so you can see that it was not a fluke...
Made one of these at work thats a lil more robust and its got enough torque to pull the same trick on the swingbolts and hookbolts. One issue with those tho is some cylinders are screwed in too close to that dividing bar in the middle but none the less ive gotten a few opens with it
They used to say: "locks are only to keep honest people out" !!!
This seems to be just a US thing. Here in Europe, most of these glass window doors have some kind of protection against slipping a tool between the door and the frame. I do not believe that many standard eurolocks provide such an easy way to bypass the lock entirely, at least I hope so. Maybe LPL can show this in a future video.
Recieved my genesis this morning! Fantastic quality, highly recommend.
I just locked myself out of my bedroom and thought I was going to have to miss the session tonight, but then I remembered what LPL taught me, and jiggled a random key in the key hole, until I jammed the lock open, and busted my door open with next to no damage to my door frame. Thank you
I'm happy all our locks are Abloy's. Classics.
You're in Finland, right ?
(Anyways these stupid commercial locks seem to be only found in North America as they don't exist here in France either.)
@@psirvent8 yeah.
Looks nice thanks for sharing.
1:25 If the rear of the lock were shielded, an interesting semi-destructive attack would be to drill a small hole in the shield via keyhole and then use the tool in the video to open the lock. That attack could be divided because it's not expected that anybody would notice the hole in the shield so the attacker could drill the hole first, wait for weeks or months and then access the door and rapidly open it.
Interesting.
I normally use a BFO HAMMER to bypass locked glass doors.
It does draw a wee bit of attention though.
If you have a front door on your store that uses these locks, I would put a bar across it on the inside and exit the rear door that is usually a steel door.
Around here most have a steel gate they close behind the glass doors, the steel gate being locked from the inside with no exterior lock access. Employee access is through rear steel doors. The locks on the glass doors are just to keep them from being opened in the wind/etc. and aren't for security.
@@offshack Is it a sliding gate or a heavy-duty roller shutter type of gate ?
@@psirvent8 Around here most are sliding gate - we're not as hardcore as New York or Chicago where they have the rolling shutters. These are "behind" the glass - so if you broke the glass or picked the glass door lock you're faced with a steel gate that is locked and accessed from the inside and you're not getting any further. The locks on the glass doors are just to keep them closed in weather etc, and remind folks the businesses are closed and no one should be trying to go in. Very few places have just the glass commercial door as their security - mostly restaurants and other places with low value inventory - and they mostly have no external key and internal deadbolt activating - no one leaves and locks up through the front glass door.
@@offshack Thank's for the reply.
Here in France it's roller shutters everywhere funnily enough, it doesn't matter if it's a small shop, a grocery store or a giant mall, roller shutters definitely are the most common gate in front of the glass entrance doors.
Some older downtown shops might still have sliding gates but that's clearly the exception and not the norm.
always a pleasure to see a new one of these in my feed :)
On my old yt account i used to watch this guy pick police car safes.. back when i was kid and not many people knew of him, i miss those days
Nice technique, sir!
I'm glad I know what to do now if I see a wild glass door in north america
So You are Showing the Easy Tricks of the Day...
l like the new tools, when will you make a UDT? adding some of the TheNotSoCivilEngineer's ideas would be so cool
I’ve never even been slightly interesting in picking but you make me want to buy a kit
It is a very fun pastime. Like a puzzle. All you need to know to practice is on his videos, a set of pucks, and some pad locks that you can find in your drug store or pharmacy.
Absolutely awesome video well done
As a closer to a chain that uses these doors, had i had one of these pick thingys it would save me a lot of pain forgetting something inside the locked store
Yes I did find it helpful as I intend to use a dead bold with no lock at all on my main door as I want to use s strike plate instead. Which means the front door has zero locks on them and can only be opened by pin code or rfid card or fob. I will have other doors out of site that will have key entry incause said entry were to fail.
Excellent kits for your 3am weekend B&E's
Keep up at it and you’ll be poppin open locks like no tomorrow:)
Not sure if you ever heard of Atlas Survival Shelters but they claim that you can NOT (or have extreme difficulty) pick their locks.
I don't think the lock itself is all that secure since it is a master's puck lock but more the fact of the thick steel frame over it.
That lock is to prevent people from entering secure shelters so the value inside is normally high, so you don't want a good lock but a great lock.
I await LPL picking his 'survival' shelter of Amazon Basic, wally mart, Master Lock, and assorted cheap Chinese padlocks storage 😀
I'm not actually sure there *is* such a thing as a great lock.
@@couchalmark675 Pac Lock, with a Medico core.
@@couchalmark675you just don't see them bc they aren't mass produced
@@couchalmark675 Bowley Rotaserra
Fantastic video!
So that's what it is for 🤯 now we can all sleep at night without lying there awake thinking about that video that reviewed this set and nobody quite worked out what that tool was for.
I like the arbiter bypass kit you sell a lot, I just wish I could buy it with a black tradecraft case instead of green
Love your videosman, keep up the good work!
A single, tiny piece of metal is all that's needed to stop this from happening. It's amazing how far they go to save a buck.
Saving a buck a lock on a million locks is a million not spent after all...
@@psirvent8 That seems like a form of wisdom, until you realize that the company would just pass the cost on to the buyers.
So here's a question for you: are there ANY benefits to having an unshielded core, or is it literally just a matter of extreme cheapness and laziness?? It seems like such an obvious fix to a non-lockpicker like me but I perhaps naively think there must be SOME reason they keep getting made...
Good question
Likely it's simplicity of design. Also, as many people state on every video, a burglar is more likely to just smash the glass. Bricks are cheaper than lockpicks, and no amount of shielded keyway will stop them.
Don't know for sure, but I had always assumed it was to leave a way for dirt/gunk/water to get out. With the hole there, any dirt which gets in the lock simply gets pushed out the back, and if it's tilted back slightly any water will just run out the back instead of building up and freezing.
Money. It costs 0.054 cents, so its deemed too expensive by lockmakers.
LPL, we own a business with this type of door owned by the rental agency. Thank you for the heads up.
While I prefer criminals and first responders to pick the lock and trip the alarm rather than bust the window and trip the alarm, I *assumed* the bolt lock was better for the second metal door.
Emergency services don't pick locks. Cops and fire fighters both just smash the doors down.
a note to all people who run businesses that use that kind of lock.
because of how easy it is to open it may be a good idea to have a motion detector connected to an alarm so if someone does try to burglarize the store the alarm should still help protect too.
i would say to shield the lock but if the lock is on a door to a critical location where the fire department may have to get in after hours it would slow them too.
also code may dictate security features too
Fire dept are more likely to smash the glass instead of trying to bypass the lock though.
@@psirvent8 that would work if the glass is thin like car window and even not tempered like safety glass.
many glass doors used for commercial use are much thicker .
I'm sure between the weight of the metal on the end of the fire hoses, fire axes, saws, jaws of life, and likely a battering ram, they can get through any door short of a panic room.
Have a great day, thank you
Thank you for providing tutorials for novice burglars.
When can we expect the encyclopedia of locks and picking methods?
Now i can break into peoples homes much more efficiently. Thanks LPL
Can't believe the lock makers haven't given you $100,000,000 just to disappear and have a good life ,absent locks . Always enjoy your vids .God bless .
Who's to say he hasn't gotten offers. 😅
1. No significant impact on sales. Orders of magnitude smaller than shrinkage, so just noise.
2. Some vulnerabilities, like the ones of this vid, are intentional from a practical standpoint.
3. $100,000,000 undervalues LPL's value. He's a treasure.
He was a lawyer and has now retired from that line of work. He quite like has no need for that amount of money.
Hello, Im locksmith, in central Europe and i have a question: what is the point of money in America, when everything you would need or want is protected like this?
Ah yes, a kit I'll definitely need when my friends, most of whom had shops with glass doors, got shut out, which they do a lot.
Please make a lock picking almanac to show every lock and their bypass !!!
Personally, I'd love to see LPL review every single product he cracks with a video link to his video cracking it. 🤣
I have a video sugestion.Make us a tour with what lock u have on your doors
I need the Adams Rite wire tool and padlock bypass tool as separate items, because I already have all the other tools in that kit...
Genesis set, with credit card door slip, 4 comb set, notched decoder bundle, and commercial door hook in the original black trade craft case.
basically, combine the Arbitor and Genisis sets in one case, I've been calling it my Low Profile Lock set, or LPL for short :)
(if you use that idea please send me a patch, I'm not picky!)
i just got this on the cheap too for the black friday sale…
Masterlock Marketing Dpt: Guys, we need to launch a new product, it's been a while since we last were featured here
Do you think they intentionally left the shield out to allow this kind of access by a skilled locksmith? Or was it just a cost-cutting thing? It seems like a shield wouldn't cost much to add.
I wish lock manufacturers learned something from LPL videos, to make more secure products... 😅 but even if they do, and it's not always the case, LPL has always a new weapon in his arsenal.
Just out of curiosity, if they did make locks unpickable then what would happen if people got locked out.
Perhaps lock companies are just trying to find balance between basic security and the ability to get in in worse case scenario.
I can't think of any house break in where a lock was picked.
Break a windows or find an open door or window.
What's the point of making a 100% unpickable lock.
Good morning LPL ! Thank you for all your videos. I have a question and it might have been already answered before, but when attempting to pick a lock, how do you discern what type of core is inside and, therefore, which will tool to use ? Thanks !
Ha. Watching the ease of bypasses here really drives home that the illusion of safety is more important to the general populace than is having actual safety.
well, the algorithm decided to bring me back to LPL since my last watch of his videos last year. don't mind if i do.
At this point I keep finding pieces of spring steel from street sweepers and I make my own picks that work really well and I can bend them easily.... Or mod them then just make another. Plus they're cheaper than a pick set.... LoL
Great video!
Are there ANY deadbolts or door lock worth buying? I can't find any suggestions on your channel. HELP! lol
Most of the time, I take these videos as a "look what you shouldn't buy" lock review. But this one is straightforward burglar advice 😂
See a previous comment on glass front doors for the easiest entry method, aka, smash the glass
He’s not revealing anything here that pros haven’t known for over a decade.
Security through obscurity isn't actually secure. It's better that exploits like these are known and fixed (if possible) rather than leaving people a false sense of security.
By making the burglary easy and accessible, thereby raising public awareness, he's forcing market pressures on the lock companies to try and innovate and fix these flaws. We'll see if they actually do it or not, but that's a whole other issue.
@@fredbloggs5902 yeah but it lets more people know. im about to break into one later on lol, always hated the owners
You will be surprised just how many of the hook bolt style you can open with a pen knife if the hook does not throw over 100% you can literally just Lift the hook with a knife also if you have doors with these locks check the keep make sure no one has added a little bit to the opening found so many like that totally insecure .. i dont work any longer due to spinal problems but it was a common call to problems with those things
It's no wonder the LPL has such success. Every door opens before him.
Seems like taking your time warming up the subject with some lubricant (DW40) before sticking your tool in it might be a recipe for success.
Is the wire tool strong enough to withstand repeated use? Its thinner material than the other components of the kit.
Can you buy just that tool?
I have the one for Ms locks on the Adam's rite both of them actually from covert instruments. I'm a Glazier don't need the whole set. Just the ones that pertain to my work.
If you need to bypass a glassdoor, may I also recommend a hammer?
i have no idea why but the idea of like a grandparent lpl picking locks instead of like the old stereotype of grandmas knitting. is very funny to my brain.
I would love to see a bypass of Best mortise lock with Medeco cylinder… ;)
Wow, the tool is so thin that it looks like it would bend when turning against the mechanism. I guess it's either stronger than it looks, or the lock doesn't take as much force as I'm assuming?
Probably both. Stainless steel is very rigid. The other tools are stainless; I'd expect the same here without looking it up.
AH WOW! Many pair of Nike sneakers in the works! :)
I need to pick one up
Here in America we have a big problem with motion sensors a lot of people companies have them
Would that wire tool be effective on different adams rite lock mechanisms? I.e swing hook
What kind of steel is the wire tool made out of and can I buy it by itself?
I have a name for such appliances, TSA, or Theatrical Security Appliance.
Of course it is derived from the TSA we all know and love, Theatrical Security Agency, found wherever Americans travel to give them the good feeling they are traveling safely due to restricted rights, confiscated by the government...
An amazing 17 th century lock that counts every time its opened.
Alternative title for the channel: "Making locks advisory" 😀
Wow...when the tool opens the lock faster than the key would.
HMM going to add that to my entry tools kit. We only have a few doors like that in the fire district but I'm betting the owners would rather not have the damage a typical K-tool does.
Have you ever made a video trying out various TV/movie picking tools? Like credit cards, hair pins, sunglasses etc? I remember an episode of MacGyver where he used the filament supports from a lightbulb, which even if they're tungsten, that seems unlikely.
The filament supports are not tungsten. Only the filament is tungsten.
When picking a lock is faster than using the key.
Super cool.
Question. When you demonstrate the second mechanism you call it a dead latch. Isn't the thing you press with your thumb technically the latch bolt and the thing below that which keeps the latch bolt from being able to be pressed when the door is shut called the dead latch, or have I been using the wrong term my whole life.
I wish covertinstrunents were available in poland