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Lock picking is what lead me to learn to code. I had randomly ended up watching a YouTube video on bumping locks one day(YouTube can take you on some wild rides lol). Naturally, I tried it right away on my own door, low and behold it worked! After gorging myself on lock-picking tutorials for a while I came across this DEFCON 19 presentation - Safe to Armed in Seconds: A Study of Epic Fails of Popular Gun Safes https://youtu.be/vIJFQO4DIxw Of course after watching several hours worth of DEFCON presentations, and my first taste of what the fuck computer code even was, I was hooked.


You might like these two vids I made a while back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3I6lbpF68Q

and a shorter version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwD54DiYprw

Also -- im sure you already know, but /r/lockpicking is a fun... but slow place.

I make my own custom picks from street sweeper blades and scrap leather, which is also a fun hobby.

http://i.imgur.com/uLbdJ63.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/b1SRJBI.jpg


Those picks show a great deal of both care and pride in your handiwork, very impressive and beautiful from a tooling point of view.




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