[1532] Hi-Tech Lock w/ Lo-Tech Flaw: Laxre Smart Padlock

[@ExpedientFalcon]

Conditioned viewer: Electronic lock? He's going to open it with a magnet. LPL: So here I have this hammer.

[@rodh1404]

A non-magnetic hammer at that!

[@TheRealMasonYoung]

I laughed so hard when the hammer came out

[@Christian-gr3gu]

The thing is a lock only as strong as it's biggest link

[@honeypeadigital]

Same thing I thought would happen, especially since the key is magnetic.

[@i999ok]

I had the same thought at the start of this video... Ended in tears after the plastic mallet XD

[@joermnyc]

Lock company: Haha! He can’t rake or comb this open! LPL: brings out the mallet. Lock company: NO!

[@toomanyhobbies2011]

They don't care. The CCP just want to sell overpriced junk to "stupid Americans".

[@_Stormfather]

And the shim

[@paulketner5077]

STOP! It's hammertime!

[@FuelDropforthewin]

​@@_StormfatherCEO: "I really thought the rubber seals would prevent shimming!"

[@OrenwaldandLoraliah]

​@Hugh Mann right? If they were trying to stop a shim why use a terrible rubber seal that could be moved just flare out the metal where it meets the body so you can't slide something in lol

[@KatonRyu]

The most impressive thing about this video for me was the magnetic viewing film. Never seen it before.

[@jeanettejack2152]

He is like Inspector Gadget!

[@StageRight123]

Yeah, that was a really cool way to introduce that tool.

[@weird-guy]

Tech KZbinr used for the iPhone like Mkbh , ltt ect

[@Nemesis-yn5wv]

You can get that in automotive “abs test cards”

[@SeeCSeesCC]

This lock failed for me

[@goodBEan]

I hope Fluke starts making locks, so that we can say "It is a fluke"

[@Mike-H_UK]

I'll measure this voltage again to show that it isn't a Fluke - or rather it is a Fluke!

[@JayBandersnatch]

"Look, I know it’s easy to say tonight was just a fluke and maybe it was. But here’s a piece of trivia, a fluke is one of the most common fish in the sea. So if you go fishing for a fluke, the chances are.. you just might catch one."

[@viandengalacticspaceyards5135]

If I look at the quality of my Fluke meter - both electronic and physical - If Fluke started making locks, I might well buy one.

[@benjurqunov]

But why doesn't Fluke support homosexual special rights ?

[@taitonaito]

I will ask you only once, my friend. Who is Fluke and why is he not featured in LPL's videos?

[@lockpickingsic]

LPL: "We'll add two more ways to open this lock by the end of the video" Lock Manufacturer: * sweating profusely *

[@highnrising]

I have no doubt that the lock manufacturer (certainly, the engineers who designed the thing) know full well that this lock can be opened in seconds with a mallet or shim. They don't care. What they care about is selling the lock.

[@sabinrawr]

sic! That was actually my favorite line in this video. I don't literally lol very often, but here I did.

[@plangelierwot]

And note the video is sub 3 minutes

[@smeezekitty]

@@highnrising padlock shimming is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Every manufacturer surely knows it so yup just greed. And they probably farm your data for ads to boot

[@bad_wulph]

One thing I've learned from this channel about smart locks is that the fancier they try to make the smart technology in the locks, the more corners they cut with the most important aspect of a lock: the mechanical locking mechanisms.

[@rollertoaster812]

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." -Montgomery Scott

[@JayBandersnatch]

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Michael Scott

[@benjurqunov]

But why do nomisexual special rights suffer when mexicans cross the border ?

[@BreezyBeej]

Scotty taught me more about working smart than any other engineer

[@andrewlund8252]

"Mr. Scott, do you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of two?"

[@tcpratt1660]

​@@andrewlund8252 "Just the invoicing, laddie, just the invoicing...in fifths of The Macallan..."

[@richardokeefe7410]

My current game is "guess what embarrassing method LPL will use to get into this padlock." I guessed shimming. I failed to guess "hit it with a hammer". My second guess was going to be the padlock bypass tool. This is a fun game.

[@PatGilliland]

Same - got the shim missed the smack.

[@steveredacted1394]

I guessed the shim also but my guess for the second method was a magnet

[@freman]

I went shimming first, like you knew there'd be room for it with the rubber boots trying to keep the water out.

[@SianaGearz]

​​@@freman it's not a question of room. When you have spring loaded pins engaging the shackle, what happens when you shim is you push the spring back. If you had a super tight shackle path, the lock would actually need extra protection since the smallest grain of sand or a little mud or ice will make it completely inoperable. Trying to protect a lock against shimming by making the shackle path tighter is not a workable idea. A correctly designed lock has ball bearings that lock into the shackle cutouts and are prevented by a turning element from falling back, there is no spring, so you can insert a shim all you want, the gap can be as generous as you want, nothing is gonna happen.

[@willardroad]

Even better as a drinking game! Loser takes shots. I live alone, so I bet against myself. Surprisingly, I lose every time. * hic *

[@SgtCookie111]

You know it's bad when the piss hammer is brought out.

[@DavidFrankland]

piss hammer LOL

[@josephhautzenroeder7512]

The urinethane hammer

[@inediblenut]

That hammer trick works on an astonishing number of cheap padlocks.

[@StageRight123]

I call it the sunshine hammer.

[@agalerex]

​@@josephhautzenroeder7512 under rated comment is under rated 😂😂

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

I have recently used the knowledge I have gained here, by removing a lock on my tow bar that had corroded to the point of not taking the key any more. If I had not watched, I may have gone to a lock specialist or mechanic, but, since I do watch, I tried a couple of your brute force ideas, and that got my lock off! THANK YOU!!

[@GK-ee7mw]

What methods did you end up using? A shim?

[@jeffreyyoung4104]

@@GK-ee7mw A pickle fork!

[@vakieh4381]

LPL - you should be charging them consulting fees for adding extra unlocking methods to the existing 4, that right there is what we call a feature

[@scunekt]

When I clicked on this video, I was expecting an easy open with a magnet or something, so seeing you just pull out a hammer and *whack* it was just wonderful.

[@kineahora8736]

Reminds one of the Indiana Jones scene with the guy with the axe vs Harrison Ford pulling out a gun🤣

[@zenithperigee7442]

@@kineahora8736 , do you mean the scene where the guy dressed up in fancy garb was swinging a sword like a "master warrior" & then Indy pulls his gun and fires one shot ending him, lol. I want to say that was the one with the "Ark of the Covenant" where at the end they open it and their faces melt etc.

[@kineahora8736]

@@zenithperigee7442 yeah, I’m pretty sure it was an axe rather than a sword. It was the best moment in the film, and was not written in the screenplay-it was supposed to be a fancy axe fight, but Harrison Ford was not doing well learning how to act his part of the fight/had no skill with the axe, and I think after a few bad takes, he suggested to the director he just shoot the guy, and they all loved the idea…

[@bigtb1717]

@@kineahora8736 The guy Indy shoots was definitely swinging a sword. It was a curved, scimitar style sword. Not an ax.

[@kineahora8736]

@@bigtb1717 ok-been years… I guess easy to find on y-tube..

[@richard-mtl]

Magnetic viewing film?! A genius idea that seems so obvious in retrospect. I am amazed at what I learned today.

[@Hybris51129]

Considering the key is magnetic it makes me wonder how this thing would react to a powerful magnet.

[@khathaway414]

I will guess poorly.

[@turbomike74]

With the polarity of the magnets being different (he shows that on the key) a strong magnet will push some of the pins into a locked position rather than retracting them all.

[@error00001]

If the lock was well thought out it would just make it bind up

[@brianhawthorne7603]

Error1, if the lock was well though out it wouldn’t open with a urethane mallet or a padlock shim.

[@stereoroid]

@@turbomike74 Perhaps an AC electromagnet at (say) 60Hz would create an oscillating magnetic field, and act like a magnetic jiggler!

[@werbearjack]

"I could easily make a tool to open the lock but why bother?" oof

[@stratometal]

Shim for silent picking, mallet for even faster access. Love it. I saw one of these on the wild the other day and my first thought was "LPL would definitively make a vid out of one of those." Boy was I happy when I saw the thumbnail for the vid.

[@IG-64]

Would that type of magnetic key have any merit if the rest of the lock wasn't so flawed?

[@jazermano]

Ooh, that's an interesting question!

[@leopeter9051]

If you then need a specialised tool that LPL doesn't have (yet) ... probably.

[@randombloke82]

Maybe, except that I suspect that the positions are fixed and binary so the number of combinations is rather limited. 2^5 or so instead of 7^5 for a decent pin tumbler design.

[@AstolfoGayming]

only because of its obscurity I'd assume. Tossing a couple magnets down the hole would tell you where the pins are, and reversing the magnets from how they landed would give you the correct polarity too, so I assume they'd be relatively easy to "pick" Assuming you can't just rake it with a magnetic rake He's demonstrated similar attacks in previous videos

[@AttilaAsztalos]

@@AstolfoGayming Fuzz: "Hey, you! Why are you carrying a magnetic rake?!?" You: "Blimey, guv, that's no rake - that's a portable Halbach array...!"

[@brodaclop]

you know you've messed up when the urethane hammer of disappointment is brought out

[@burkeiowa]

Each additional way to accomplish something tends to be an additional pathway of attack. I loved how you pointed out their intended ways of using it, and then said that by the end of this video you'll provide two more. I've enjoyed so many of your videos, and it makes the locks at stores look like a bad investment.

[@Cartier_specialist]

The Lock Picking Lawyer has to be the largest KZbin channel that only makes 3 minute videos and sometimes he's being kind to make the video 2 minutes.

[@StageRight123]

'Just Rolled In' is another great 2-3 minute KZbinr, about auto shop failures. He and Lock Picking Lawyer have liked/commented on each others videos.

[@cooldog60]

He is the only You Tuber that I have seen that doesn't take 30 minutes to make a 3 minute video.

[@Anonymous551656]

Last time I was this early to an LPL video he was still the Lock Picking Law Student.

[@lraffucci]

locks keeps honest people out. bad people will always find a way.

[@leotoro51]

Mallet made my day mate :) It is very universal product in the department of opening it !

[@DavidKMartin]

"I could make a tool to open it, but when there are two low-skill ways to open it it's not worth my time." Such a casual burn.

[@MooresRacingandOff-Roading]

The only man that can post sub 3 min videos still gets over a quarter of a million likes and has built the fan base that he has. I love this channel!

[@mmseng2]

I'm not locksmart by any means, but this begs the question in my mind; wouldn't putting little flares on the shackle, such that they would meet the lock body when the shackle is closed, be a good defense again shimming? Obviously, a better designed lock wouldn't be susceptible shimming/tapping in the first place, but it just seems like a real easy and cheap way to prevent any sort of tool from getting in there and causing mischief. And obviously the tolerances of this would still be the weak point, but you could also allow the flares to recess into the lock body a bit to make it like 3 times more difficult to get anything in there. Just something that came to mind when he pulled back the rubber boot thing at 1:44. I actually thought that this was how the shackle was designed, and was impressed, until I realized that the flare was actually part of the lock body, and not part of the shackle casting.

[@brianhawthorne7603]

I am really glad that LPL tests smart locks without downloading the app. Sure, it is possible that there is a “smart” lock out there that has an app-related feature that is the weakest link, but so far every one he has tested has fallen to basic low-skill attacks, so there is no reason to even look that far.

[@stevevernon1978]

he is, after all, the lock PICKING lawyer, not the lock HACKING lawyer.

[@tcpratt1660]

​@@stevevernon1978 somewhere, there must be a white hat Lock Hacking Lawyer...

[@tupera1]

After watching this channel for some time now, I'm convinced most lock companies don't test their products before launching them.

[@starchitin]

It should be noted that lock companies aren't exactly designing locks with folk like LPL in mind. His enormous knowledge of locks in general, luxury of time and resources to be able to inspect the workings of individual locks, and the ability to buy/make specialty tools to bypass mechanisms aren't things the average thief is going to possess. The goal of most lock/safe companies is to increase the amount of time it takes to get at whatever's being protected (thus raising the risk of discovery) and/or make difficult to get inside without damaging the contents. To be fair, LPL does feature a lot of locks/safes that fail even at that basic level.... but he also shows solutions that just aren't going to be possible for crimes of opportunity quite a bit.

[@Photoloss]

@@starchitin Fair overall but you're commenting on the video where the lock can be opened with a small rock or the filings left over from carving your prison shiv...

[@phlogistanjones2722]

@@starchitin No. You do not get to excuse outright BAD engineering and design with "BuT MoSt PeEpLe ArUnT eXpUuUrTs!!!!" That is just lazy sophistry.

[@starchitin]

@@phlogistanjones2722 I'm not excusing poor design, nor am I suggesting the lock in this specific video was anything but. The person I was responding to was talking about lock companies in general and so was I. Quite simply, it's not possible to create a lock or safe that cannot be opened and/or bypassed without the key. Of course it's inexcusable to sell a privacy lock as a security lock, but it's insane to think anyone's going to design a lock that cannot be picked or hacked.

[@Rohan4711]

@@starchitin Impossible is a strong word, but at least there are a few normal locks where LPL has not found any flaw. He could still single pin pick them with some struggle. That would be far beyond the skill level of any thief. Normally LPL does not test locks with destructive methods or massive force, and that would be a more normal way for a thief to use.

[@KuruGDI]

Magnetic viewing film? Very interesting. I didn't know something like this even existed!

[@dadanon2874]

I missed the days when you took things apart and I actually learned something

[@TheRealMasonYoung]

How do you just continue to improve your content with ever video. I think I have damn near seen all of them at this point and I just crave more. Every time I see a recently uploaded video I instantly click it with a grin on my face.

[@macbrown99]

Since the dawn of time, hitting things with other things has been the most constant and successful endeavor of mankind

[@QuatrinaVR]

LPL really just pulled out a piece of magic xray film to show us the inside of the key

[@btbb3726]

I’m not particularly “into” locks etc. but I’ve watched enough of these videos to have them occasionally appear in my feed. That said, it is interesting and surprising to see how easily so many locks are defeated. I guess that in many situations it’s down to just making defeating a lock and gaining non-permitted access enough of a hassle and enough of a spectacle to discourage such efforts. It’s good to know how easy it is to defeat so many locks so that adequate measures can be taken when security is paramount. 👍🏻

[@khathaway414]

It is getting bad when the ads on KZbin take longer to play that it does LPL to pick a lock.

[@MyMy-tv7fd]

this does so bring a gentle smile to the face...

[@AlFooteIII]

I could foresee the shims once I saw those rubber stopper things. But when he only moved aside the one? I wasn't expecting it to be THAT bad! 🤣🤣🤣

[@S2kDude36]

I continue to watch LPL's videos because I'm always amazed at how easy it is to open many of the locks he shows.

[@Sanyaenyenwa]

I was *almost* impressed when the mechanical backup lock was not a weak point, but then out came the plastic mallet... They were *SO CLOSE* with this one!

[@jimparlett4099]

As soon as LPL said "Smart lock" with that disparaging tone of voice, I knew this lock was going to be anything but smart! I was not disappointed!

[@Imotepth]

This locks sums up lot of the advanced solutions in many aspects of our daily lives.

[@eamonahern7495]

"We'll add 2 more ways before this video is over". That says it all. 😆

[@samshaw5014]

Magnetic viewing film? I've never heard of that, but it looks CRAZY sci-fi! Now I want my hover skate boards...

[@thaneblayls5491]

I love this man. He would be perfect in a post-apocalyptic setting as he could pick any lock with no trouble. If the lock is rusted then, hammer time.

[@rickrickard2788]

Smart Lock + Smart Chip + Smart Phone + Smart Key = A love tap from Bubba's Rubber Mallet. Are we sure these lock companies aren't working for the criminals? I'm beginning to think they are.

[@monkstandinglast]

would be interesting to look into if i could be bothered lol the number of "customers" who said bougjt this for protecting xyz and then ended up getting robbed lol

[@toomanyhobbies2011]

Just look at the quality. An outstanding feature is the chipped "screen" that enhances the security of this "lock". $75 on Amazon?

[@samsonmacri941]

"Well at least it can't be shimed because of those stoppers." LPL: Pulls one out if the way easily "OH, oh no."

[@DavidFrankland]

exactly my thought - why weren't they attached to the shackle?

[@MrSoonermadman]

I love the “it’s really not worth my time”. That says a lot about a lock..

[@frankdangelo5828]

His passive aggression is legendary. 😂

[@NoInfoFound]

Excellent, we have not seen the solid urine mallet in a long time!

[@jonno2000]

'a tap with a plastic mallet gets the job done' dripping with sarcasm - classic

[@venom5809]

Literally steps away from just opening a lock by breathing on it. LOL

[@Dirtyharry70585]

The most complex solved by one of the oldest man made tools 😂

[@gbgentleman]

But to be honest, Hammers can solve a LOT of issues that it was never intended to solve.

[@dwayne7356]

@@gbgentleman If not, just get a bigger hammer.

[@the_undead]

But the wacky go-lucky stick is the best tool

[@danielkorladis7869]

brute force: if it isn't working, you aren't using enough

[@the_undead]

@@danielkorladis7869 honestly in this application and many others, if it half-price being used with finesse and not Bruce force

[@TheStevester2]

I would appreciate to see a lock that is honest and hard to open every now and again

[@MisterKisk]

He's already done them in older videos. There isn't really any new lock designs coming out that are honest and hard to open.

[@nightmarestitcher]

The " Whack the Crap outa it" is always the 1st attempt and usually works

[@la_scrittice_vita]

And then around 1:22 he mentions finding a more sophisticated method is "not worth my time" and the lock designers die a little (again).

[@DrivingWithJake]

I found hitting most with a hard object worked for almost all cheap padlocks. I remember in high school bashing locks for people with a stick / club I made in wood shop.

[@ИванСнежков-з9й]

The rubber boot is so close to defeating the second attack. If there were metal boots as part of the shackle, there wouldn't have been any way to insert the shim.

[@SirButcher]

Okay, but that would increase the production costs slightly and would cut into the company's PROFIT!!!!!

[@Rohan4711]

The rubber is normally intended to prevent water from entering the lock in case it is used outdoors. As they didn't have locking on both sides of the shackle you instantly know they have cut a lot of corners to keep cost down.

[@tfofurn]

The rubber is there to make sure rust or dirt can't make it difficult to insert the shim. 😁

[@macdaniel6029]

It's high security rubber!

[@ohger1]

"we'll add two more ways [to open] before this video is over"... LOL, classic LPL.

[@MetalMachine131]

I would love to see you try to defeat the magnetic lock. I didn't even know they existed.

[@garyszewc3339]

The first time I saw a magnetic padlock was over fifty years ago.

[@nemonucliosis]

Thanks, this worked on my neighbors storage locker and I now have 4 new car tires!

[@Tuepp]

😂 I'd expected a lot but not the hammer again 😂

[@stevevernon1978]

I knew he was going to shim it, but the mallet, I was NOT expecting!

[@davidp2888]

LPL literally went “Stop. Hammer time!”

[@Spurdospaerde692]

No, he literally didn't.

[@edisonsullivaniv8687]

They are going with the Masterlock formula: Overcompensate x to distract from flaw y. Only fancy, and with a much higher price tag.

[@ScytheNoire]

"Not worth my time" to make a tool. Congratulations Laxre, you have reached Master level; Master Lock level.

[@rc7178]

Very curious about the tool that you would have made. Thanks for the content

[@christophergaspar6520]

his tone being so neutral throughout the video just makes it more humorous

[@Romnipotent]

4 different ways to open is 4 different ways to circumvent?

[@loriw2661]

“And we’re going to add 2 more to it…” 🤣😂

[@sirskidney7998]

And they call it a smart lock 😂😂 Thank you Mr. LPL!

[@KPbICMAH]

well, you can lose your RFID tags, misplace the magnetic key, have your smartphone battery die, and forget the numeric code - and still be able to open this lock! isn’t it smart?

[@dranthonyv5475]

“Attack the weakest link.” - Great advice when your up against any adversary, inanimate or otherwise.

[@TianarTruegard]

Congratulations lock, you are the weakest link! :D

[@anthonyhodgson825]

What might be fascinating is for you to show us how you approach a new lock. What low skill attack to you try first? What's next? All the way down the list to a successful entry even if it ends with the key. ( I doubt a lock would make it that far )

[@feldegast]

The 2nd Stuff Made Here lock if it had the back plate added to it would come close.....

[@charlesclark3840]

First try: can you shim it with one shim. If not try two. If you can shim it, see if you can also whack it. I have no idea what order of steps he uses after that, but I'm fairly confident those are the first steps for any padlock that uses a push pull hasp (but probably not for warded key/skeleton key type padlocks with hinged hasps).

[@Finvaara]

He always seems to start by determining what he can about the lock's construction based on his extensive knowledge of lock engineering before he ever decides on an attack to use, so there are a lot of attacks he doesn't try before he gets to success most of the time.

[@Davlavi]

Nice demonstration.

[@horrorbusiness8292]

@lockpickinglawyer I definitely understand not wanting to download apps on your personal device, but have you considered getting a cheap burner and setting it up with a burner account? A lot of these smart locks are doing the app thing and it might be interesting to see if there are additional weaknesses going that route. Probably not worth it when all you need is a shim or a mallet, but maybe worth looking at on deadbolts and similar...

[@JensB404]

It is fun to watch him humiliate bad lock companies, but I have to say that I wish for more great locks and recommendations on this channel. I liked for example the video on the Bowley lock.

[@Tomaskom]

"Magnetic viewing film" is a thing I never knew existed. Always cool stuff to learn here 🙂

[@pringalekumardas2127]

* Hi-Tech Cyberpunk Lock exists * LPL: B O N K

[@Garrixon_]

How it is even legal to sell these useless locks is beyond everything....

[@zalthemaniac4633]

Legal to sell I can see, but the manufacturers should be held liable for loss of property if it was due to a design flaw they knew about, but didn't tell the customers.

[@blarfroer8066]

They may not be completely useless. Depends on your taste in paper weights.

[@youghurt2k]

Hmmm... thinking about all the useless shit sold on the internet... locks are just a part of it. Don't discriminate 🙂

[@Alex_Fahey]

Most of these locks certainly fall under false advertising, and sometimes, they would even qualify as fraud. Many of them assert being pick-proof despite that bring demonstrably false or lie about having a [insert metallic alloy] core to the shackle or body. Generally, outright lying about a product's qualities is a great way to get sued.

[@Garrixon_]

@@youghurt2k surely my Aliexpress toothbrush is as important as possibly a lock to secure something valuable or keep people out

[@colday74]

Nice, it's been a while since we have seen the urethane mallet.

[@richb1576]

I keep a mallet like that in my glove box not realizing I could be arrested for transporting burglary tools. Thanks Lpl

[@richardwernst]

I often get a chuckle from these simple to open with ordinary tools fancy locks, thanks. Makes me wonder how often, if ever, the manufacturers contact you?

[@OurHeroXero]

Man, these locks are making Masterlock look better all the time...which is saying something...

[@MisterKisk]

Masterlock's new slogan "We don't open with urethane hammers!"

[@matthewmurphy8981]

When LPL says "not worth my time" that is about the same as "hold my beer" - ouch! 1:27 in and he hasn't even gotten to the two defeat methods for a 2:34 video - you know it must be brutal (brutally easy to defeat)!

[@yoikes]

Let me just grab my handy magnetic viewing film

[@TheSleepingonit]

Never heard of that have you?

[@yoikes]

@@TheSleepingonit nope totally novel.

[@sunny_muffins]

I hope one day to buy a lock that has an *approved by LockPickingLawyer* on it.

[@SocksAndPuppets]

that magnetic viewing film is really cool! where do you get such things?

[@u1zha]

It's a commodity product, just somewhat niche

[@Litwinel]

Imagine spending so much money to develop and produce such an unique security mechanism just to allow the lock to be opened with a little tap or with piece of redbull can.

[@mrbushi1062]

There is nothing worse then seeing some high tech lock and LPL just opens it with a hammer or other brute force XD

[@kaasmeester5903]

He didn't even bother to put the battery in... Pretty sad.

[@ktwice7481]

Magnetic view foil btw 😮 wow never heard or seen that, amazing

[@NeoFrontierTechnologies]

Never underestimate the power of a good old shim. Astoundingly pathetic that newly designed locks can stil be opened that way. Mind boggling.

[@r6u356une56ney]

You could get a burner phone/tablet that had NO personal information on it to test/try the "apps" for locks that use them,

[@Scarcazym]

Locking companies with the engineering team Suits: So how do we feel about this lock? Engineers: Solid and secure. Suits: We wouldn't end up on the KZbinr LPL correct? Engineers: We're just gonna double check some things and get back to you. [walks away mumbling and whimpering]

[@mmseng2]

This is incredibly backwards. Pretty sure that most engineers are well aware of the faults intentionally included into products as a result of limitations imposed by suits.

[@charlesclark3840]

@@mmseng2 yes. any company making a shim-able lock knows they are making a low end lock.

[@CyPsyGuy]

Amazing, sir LPL.

[@issamelarmi]

The mallet - shim combo is yet undefeated

[@shenencalhar]

Great video as always LPL. The magnetic key has reminded me of something, and I wonder if it could change lockmaking in a revolutionary way. Smarter Every Day # 153 featured polymagnets, printed magnets where they could completely customize the magnetic fields so that it's just not repel or attract of varying strengths, but could do both and create a kind of cushion. Could that be used in keys to magnetically move lock pins to certain heights just like a key would, but not allow direct physical access? You'd have to have a key with the specific printed polymagnets to get the right combination of magnetic fields.

[@stevevernon1978]

and you would ALSO have to close all the zero skill openings

[@wickedcabinboy]

@@stevevernon1978 - Easier said than done.

[@u1zha]

Maybe you're overthinking it. The cushion thing is a curiosity applicable when you need to have the levitating effect. Inside lock body we don't care much if counterbalancing is done by levitate-y magnetic forces both ways (repel and attract) or by physical springs from inside and magnetic forces from keyside.

[@u1zha]

The right combination of magnetic fields can also be decoded by Hall effect and other sensors. (Mobile phone cases have magnets in them that phones sense, to tell "original" and cheap imitations apart.) I highly doubt the lock in this video used moving parts to be attracted or repelled from the key. Edit: well the product description says "Mechanical Keys as backup" so maybe it used moving magnets indeed.

[@shenencalhar]

@@u1zha, I don't think you've actually addressed my question. Please watch the Smarter Every Day video I referenced about polymagnets. Polymagnets are not moving magnets, they're printed. This is an emerging technology. The sensors may indeed be able to decode the magnetic field, but actually having the ability to print the correct polymanget key is something different.

[@averagejoe5904]

I started hysterically laughing when LPL bought out a hammer. This is going on my favorites

[@GRT1865]

Instead of the keys they could package a small mallet with it. Cheaper, faster.....

[@jaquigreenlees]

I remember a padlock available in the late 1970s that was a magnetic key, with no keyhole in the lock. The rectangular key was placed in a depression on one side of the lock to open it.

[@JoFreddieRevDr]

The app should work on a phone that is just connected to Wi-Fi, without a SIM, so get a cheap aneroid phone and set up a separate email address that you only use for such tests and then you have to give out zero personal info. You could even set up a VPN network so the phone has no access to you personal network. Even if it requires a working phone number, that is also something that could be set up and only used for such projects without having to give the app you personal number. You have used this reason before and I thought back then that is is something that would be VERY easy to work around.

[@mentosman8]

While possible to work around, what value does "here is the mechanism rendered meaningless by this hammer working as intended" add? Like he absolutely *could* do all these things, but would this video have been any better if he had punched in a code before hitting it with the mallet? No use spending time and money on things you're going to promptly ignore regardless!

[@JoFreddieRevDr]

@@mentosman8 Had the reason given, been it is so easy to open I will not bother with the app, that would have been a different matter, I was responding to the reason LPL gave, and as smart devices crop up from time to time such a isolated cheap smart phone may be a worth getting.

[@panda4247]

And here I was, thinking they added anti-shim guards (metal, immovable) to the shackle... But no, those were probably rubber, probably just for water protection of the holes