{"id":2934,"date":"2011-06-06T01:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T07:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:27:33","slug":"just-a-little-lock-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"Just A Little Lock Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted a set of lock picks and I finally picked up a set for Christmas. I got the Southord MPXS-14. It comes with a ton of picks, though I only use the smaller feeler pick and the tension wrenches. <\/p>\n

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I made a little video of me picking a couple of locks. It seems masterlocks are the easiest to pick. In the video you see the masterlock go in about 5 seconds or so. The other lock is just a generic lock that has been out in the weather for ages, so it is pretty stiff and unforgiving.<\/p>\n

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People are frequently concerned with data security. Firewalls and virus protection won’t help you if someone picks a simple door lock and borrows your equipment or takes the liberty of implanting their own equipment.<\/p>\n

This made me realize that locks only keep out honest people. It seems most padlocks or door locks fall prey to a pick in less than 30 seconds. I can’t help but look at random locks now and think…”I could pick that.” Don’t worry…I use my powers for good, not evil \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always wanted a set of lock picks and I finally picked up a set for Christmas. I got the Southord MPXS-14. It comes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}