[1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Here

Why HN readers recommended 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.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

LockPickingLawyer

Topic

lock security

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• On the topic of "novel, non-pin-tumbler mechanisms": I can recommend the videos by Stuff Made Here [1][2], where he designs two novel anti-picking lock mechanisms, and the related video [3] where LockPickingLawyer tries to pick and bypass them. Together they give a whole new understanding …

• The interaction of engineering and "use" by the Lock Picking Lawyer ( [VIDEO] ) was fascinating - "use" here really meaning "exploiting". It's a problem many here are aware of, either by over-engineering things intended for use by non-engineers, or designing things to be used …

• Since this has generated some discussion on locks and picking, there's been some interesting developments on "unpickable locks" that sidestep the tolerance problem by decoupling setting the pins from testing them. I.e. pins are tested all at once after they are physically decoupled from the …