Lock picking videos are becoming more and more popular on YouTube, but Houston Locksport said they were doing it before it was cool. Members get together once a month at a bar to trade tips and tricks ...

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Schuyler Towne, of Somerville, is on a mission to make competitive lock-picking an accepted sport in the U.S. (Andrea Shea/WBUR) As he manipulates a skinny pick to defeat a lock, Schuyler Towne wants ...

A note to Dutch innkeepers: If you are going to host a convention of lock pickers, and you promise them free Wi-Fi, it is probably a futile gesture to then require ...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (CBS/AP) Schuyler Towne took a gleaming brass lock, inserted a small bent piece of flat steel into the keyhole and gently applied finger pressure. Then he slid in a lockpick and ...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Schuyler Towne took a gleaming brass lock, inserted a small bent piece of flat steel into the keyhole and gently applied finger pressure. Then he slid in a lockpick and manipulated ...

After nearly 15 years of partaking in locksport, the hobby of overcoming locking systems, David Seidl quickly points out he isn’t much better at it now than he was when he started. What locksport has ...

I get locked out of my house quite a lot. By "I get locked out," I mean that I contrive to accidentally lock myself out. By "quite a lot", I probably mean it happens two or three or four times a year.

[Chronos] let me know that Locksport International released a new visual lock picking guide. The MIT guide is a classic, but not nearly as easy on the eyes. This one covers all the basics and it reads ...

Locksmiths and lock manufactures have found themselves in a jam. The skills of their trade, passed down through generations under conditions of occult secrecy, have been jimmied open online ...