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[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here

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What it is

The Lock Picking Lawyer tests the supposedly unpickable lock designs built by the Stuff Made Here channel. He looks for bypasses and weaknesses in the novel anti-picking mechanisms.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it in lock-security threads as a good example of engineering meeting real-world exploitation, where flaws unrelated to the headline mechanism get found.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Together they give a whole new understanding of lock design and picking methods.”

    LPL tries to pick and bypass novel anti-picking mechanisms

    yccs27, 2022-04 · Strong recommendation · in “High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)”

  2. “The interaction of engineering and "use" by the Lock Picking Lawyer”

    Engineering versus real-world exploitation of a lock design

    harrisi, 2022-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Enclave: An Unpickable Lock”

  3. “Made for interesting videos on both sides”

    LPL tests unpickable lock designs and finds easy bypasses

    infogulch, 2021-09 · Recommendation · in “O.mg Cable”

  4. “an excellent set of videos”

    Related prior art with hardening suggestions from LPL

    binarymax, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Enclave: An Unpickable Lock”

  5. “He picked a lock with the same concept by swighton (Stuff Made Here), but exploited a flaw that had nothing to do with the mechanism.”

    LPL exploited a flaw unrelated to the unpickable mechanism

    mizzao, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Enclave: An Unpickable Lock”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: lock picking, unpickable lock, bypass, stuff made here, mechanical security

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