Start a new career as a burglar

[Simpo Two]

I typed 'gadget' into Amazon and not far down was this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preciva-26-Piece-Transpar...

Described as 'Outstanding Entertaining and Learning: Lock picking is not only a funny hobby, but also a valuable skill to bring yourself home in the event of a problem and a good educational tool for children to develop intelligence.' Horsest, it's for scrotes to break into your house.

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

[4Q]

Scrotes don’t mess about picking locks, they just snap them off.

Watch from about 55 seconds in
https://youtu.be/nYh371UjbEM?feature=shared

Edited by 4Q on Friday 10th January 22:10

[Sebring440]

Simpo Two said:

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

This is old news.

Have a look on Ebay!

Where do you think locksmiths get their tools from?

[N111BJG]

Sebring440 said:

Simpo Two said:

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

This is old news.
Have a look on Ebay!
Where do you think locksmiths get their tools from?

I would assume that the dishonest ones steal them from somewhere

[ScoobyChris]

Simpo Two said:

I typed 'gadget' into Amazon and not far down was this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preciva-26-Piece-Transpar...

Described as 'Outstanding Entertaining and Learning: Lock picking is not only a funny hobby, but also a valuable skill to bring yourself home in the event of a problem and a good educational tool for children to develop intelligence.' Horsest, it's for scrotes to break into your house.

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

I bought one of these kits a couple of years back on a whim and was quite intrigued by it. Mastered all three locks but yet to test in the real world!

Chris

[VSKeith]

Lots of people do this as a hobby/interest.

I'll take a punt and guess that most of the criminal fraternity don't bother and use other methods of entry that require far less skill

[davek_964]

I also bought one a few years back just to play about with. Haven't felt tempted to break into any houses.

[edthefed]

davek_964 said:

I also bought one a few years back just to play about with. Haven't felt tempted to break into any houses.

Yeh we believe you !

[vaud]

Watch the Lockpicking Lawyer on Youtube if you need tuition.

[ChocolateFrog]

You can also buy hammers and crowbars on the Internet too.

The tool of choice for a thief is a cordless angle grinder anyway.

[leyorkie]

Have you seen the wristwatch gizmos that disconnect Wi-Fi so that Ring doorbells loose the internet connection? £40 bargain!

[wyson]

Yes, security firms always recommend hardwired systems. Can just buy wifi jammers on ebay.

Lockpickinglawyer also sells the tools he uses with instructions as well.

[liner33]

Lockpicking is taught at Cambridge as part of the computer science degree

[Aretnap]

Simpo Two said:

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

Not many things are outright illegal to sell. Drugs, guns, explosives, certain weapons, body parts of endangered species etc. There are of course laws setting standards for tours of goods (lead in paint, safety ratings for cars etc) but those are more about ensuring minimum safety standards than banning whole classes of goods.

The fact that something might be useful in crime has never been a reason for it being illegal to sell. It's also perfectly legal to sell baseball bats, hammers, crowbars, balaclavas, striped sweatshirts and sacks with the word "SWAG" printed on them.

I'm reminded of the time someone noticed that if you tried to buy hydrogen peroxide, acetone, wires and nails from Amazon, it would ask if you had forgotten a battery and a timer. Which was quite helpful of it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41320375

Edited by Aretnap on Saturday 11th January 11:55

[carl_w]

If I recall correctly, didn't Richard Feynman teach himself lock picking?

[48k]

Simpo Two said:

I typed 'gadget' into Amazon and not far down was this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preciva-26-Piece-Transpar...

Described as 'Outstanding Entertaining and Learning: Lock picking is not only a funny hobby, but also a valuable skill to bring yourself home in the event of a problem and a good educational tool for children to develop intelligence.' Horsest, it's for scrotes to break into your house.

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

Get with the programme grandad. It's a fascinating hobby.

[e-honda]

Simpo Two said:

I typed 'gadget' into Amazon and not far down was this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preciva-26-Piece-Transpar...

Described as 'Outstanding Entertaining and Learning: Lock picking is not only a funny hobby, but also a valuable skill to bring yourself home in the event of a problem and a good educational tool for children to develop intelligence.' Horsest, it's for scrotes to break into your house.

I'm surprised Amazon sell such things. Is there a law against it? I fear not.

So judge mental and so wrong at the same time.

Criminals don't often pick locks, they break them, scrotes breaking into houses have zero interest in leaving the locks functional after they have left.

Lock picking is a skill that takes a lot of times an patience to learn and has more lawful and legitimate uses than unlawful ones, but the vast majority of people learning to do it are doing so purely as a hobby for fun, its basically a type of puzzle.

Claiming it just for criminals is pure ignorance, it's like saying anyone learning boxing or martial arts just wants to beat people up, it should be banned.

[nute]

I’ve got one of them, it’s really very interesting to learn and see the different ways locks are designed to defeat picking.

It might come as a surprise but it takes a lot of skill and knowledge to pick anything except the most simple locks. After a year or so of learning I can get simple padlocks open, no chance on a mortice lock though, or a high security lock.

If you want to take the guesswork and skill out of it just buy yourself a lock aid gun, will do most simple locks quickly.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Loboo-Idea-Lock-Locksmith...

If you want to do car locks these make it very simple but you need a specific one for each keyway profile

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TPM-Go-FO38-Reader-Decode...

By the way I haven’t felt any overwhelming desire to break into my neighbours house.

Maybe knocking up some black powder might be more your style, you can buy the ingredients on line very easily. Same with rocket candy and lots of other fun things.

Edited by nute on Saturday 11th January 20:41

[anonymous-user]

Isn't lockpicking also a sport? I believe it's called locksport.

[VSKeith]

carl_w said:

If I recall correctly, didn't Richard Feynman teach himself lock picking?

Safe cracking as I remember - between bongo sessions and atomic weapons development