Lockpicking is the art of opening a lock without damaging it or using a key – and recently lockpicking has become a sport with clubs and championships. Who knew?

One such club is TOOOL (The Open Organisation of Lockpickers). One of the founding members of this organisation is Barry Wels whose video on how to open a Kensington laptop lock with a toilet roll and a pen have gained him a lot of notoriety lately.

In a similar vein, Barry gave a talk at the Physical Security Workshop at 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21C3) in Berlin where he demonstrates a new technique for opening just about any physical lock in seconds. The technique is called the bump key method and a pdf explaining the bump key method is available here.

The talk is now available online and makes for scary viewing – be warned though, it is over 600mb so if you want to view it you will need a decent Internet connection.

Hat tip to Eric Marvets on whose blog I first saw a reference to this video.

8 responses to “How to pick any lock in seconds”

  1. bumpkey avatar

    this is a video clip of me manipulating a lock using the bumping technique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WexoP5ZDWgg

  2. joe avatar
    joe

    what tools do i need to use to pick a lock on a masterlock
    please email me at hca3b@aol.com

  3. kevin avatar
    kevin

    how do u get in to cabnets the one with like cabnet locks

  4. Serafina avatar

    I’ve always heard that picking a common car steering wheel lock (The Club) is easy… Well now that I’ve lost the key to mine (and incidently don’t have the money to afford the locksmith here), I can’t find anyone that knows how to do it and am having difficulty finding anything online- i guess that’s how easy it is. So could anyone help me!?
    (please put “lock pick” in the subject line of an email)
    sdisparti2004@yahoo.com
    http://www.myspace.com/disparti

  5. Scot Summer avatar
    Scot Summer

    How do I unlock a 93′ Ford Explorer xlt, its an automatic, 4×4, power locks, windows, A/C, power seats, power mirrors, sunroof, and thats all the info I have on my truck. Locked keys inside awhile ago, but know I need back inside the damn thing…lol. Thanks for any help u can give.

  6. mylesbalas avatar
    mylesbalas

    what tools do iuse to pick a doolock

  7. mylesbalas avatar
    mylesbalas

    what tools do i use to pick door locks

  8. cooper avatar
    cooper

    how do i open the new club lock combination ive tried everything

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