Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths
Why Hacker News recommends it
Raised in lock-picking threads as a related attempt at an unpickable lock, and for novel anti-picking mechanisms.
What it is
Stuff Made Here designs and builds an "unpickable" lock, then calls in a locksmith to see if it can be defeated. It covers the mechanical design effort and the attempt to pick it.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2021 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends yccs27 · 2022-04 · on “High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)”
On the topic of "novel, non-pin-tumbler mechanisms": I can recommend the videos by Stuff Made Here [1][2], where he designs two novel anti-picking lock mechanisms, and the related video [3] where LockPickingLawyer tries to pick and bypass them. Together they give a whole new understanding of lock design and picking methods. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]
Cites banana_giraffe · 2021-08 · on “Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes”
What am I missing? This looks like a re-encode: $ yt-dlp -x --sponskrub --sponskrub-cut [this video] [youtube] [this video] Downloading webpage [youtube] [this video] Downloading android player API JSON [info] [this video] Downloading 1 format(s): 251 [download] Destination: Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths [this video] [download] 100% of 12.72MiB in 00:00 [ExtractAudio] Destination: Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths [this video] Deleting original file Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths [this video] (pass -k to keep) [SponSkrub] Trying to remove sponsor sections WARNING: Cutting out sponsor segments will cause the subtitles to go out of sync. [libopus @ 0x5462c20] No bit rate set. Defaultin
Cites ryzvonusef · 2021-11 · on “Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote”
are you perhaps talking about the forever lock? [LINK] while difficult, it can be undone ----- making a one-off "unpickable" lock is possible, here is some to-and fro between two youtube channels about such locks: Stuff Made Here: [this video] [LINK] Lock Picking Lawyer: [LINK] But things from installation issues, to making sure tolerances are maintained while making the locks on a production line, mean that there are always some gaps left in a mass produced and installed lock.
Cites swighton · 2022-06 · on “Enclave: An Unpickable Lock”
Interesting design. I made a lock a couple years ago that is quite similar in principle (though this design is different and has a couple nice improvements). [this video] One of my main goals is to be an inspiration, though if it was based by my design I wish they’d credit it. Especially since they’re patenting it.