Picking a lock with a Banana

andrew24 says on May 15, 2007, 21:06:

I know the guy that did the banana bit--it was a joke, just to show that a lock can be picked with anything.

There's lists of bump-proof locks out there, most good UL 437 rated locks are, in fact, bump proof. Good examples of those include:

Medeco (there's a video out there of someone "bumping" one of these--the whole thing was rigged, they're not realistically bump-able)

Abloy--my favorite.

ASSA--Twin, V-10, whatever they're all good.

Schlage Primus

Any lever locks (Chubb 114's & 110's are two examples of high-quality British lever locks)

Scorpion (Canadian lock, very nice for the price)

there's others, but those will be the easiest to get, especially Medeco if you're in North America.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain

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Aaron21 says on May 15, 2007, 21:21:

Umm... lol... You also have to have a "bump" key... not easy to acquire, and I would be surprised if anyone in Colombia could make one..

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elreydelostrolls says on May 16, 2007, 05:53:

Colombians can't make bump keys? Hell, they're the counterfeiting champions of the world so I imagine it's no big deal to make bump keys. When it comes to stuff like this no one surpasses their inventiveness.

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mecca says on May 16, 2007, 12:15:

bump keys are actually easy to make yourself check out youtube. There's a couple of vids. of them making them with the simplest of tools. Pretty scary!! You might be getting a visitor late at night, and it's not a hot calena.jjajajaaj

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mecca says on May 16, 2007, 12:15:

duplicate

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andrew24 says on May 16, 2007, 18:28:

Bump keys are VERY easy to make--you need a key for the lock you want to bump, ANY key will do no matter how it's cut, and you need a file (swiss pattern #6 is best, but a fine rat tail will work, too). That's it.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain

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Aaron21 says on May 16, 2007, 20:16:

Actually that is not "it" ... Please quit being alarmists ... in the end it attracts no one.

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andrew24 says on May 19, 2007, 14:23:

Yes, that is IT--I would know because I've made them myself for Schlages, master lock padlocks, kwiksets, Best SFIC locks (hard to get them to work, but I've done it twice), and several others. Barry Wells of TOOOL has demonstrated that it IS that easy several times on video, check out TOOOL's english homepage (just google it), and look for a video called 'bumping revisited' or something like that. There's a surprising number of high-security locks that can be bypassed by bumping, the most well-known one that was bumped successfully was Mul-T-Lock (both the 7x7 AND interactive ARE bumpable).

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark Twain

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