Locks are designed to keep honest people out. (Dishonest people can always break a window.) But that doesn't mean that honest people can't enjoy picking them. I've been an amateur lock picker for four ...

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER PAUL VAN OSDOL IS LIVE WITH MORE ON THIS PAUL WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH THESE LOCKS. >> A NATIONALLY RENOWNED LOCK EXPERT TELLS ME SOME OF THESE TRIGGER LOCKS CAN BE EASILY PICKED ...

Learning to pick locks is a fun exercise in learning about locking mechanisms, honing a useful skill, and getting a better understanding of how locks work and protect—or fail to protect—you and your ...

I have a lock in my hand, a little tension-wrench lever braced in it with one finger, and I'm wiggling a little pick tool inside it trying to coax the pins open. I'm laughing, of course, because I ...

Lockpicking is a grand skill to have, and one that’s often presumed to be one of the dark arts of the burglar. However, a new technique has come to the fore in some European contexts. It appears ...