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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Learning to pick locks is a fun exercise in learning about locking mechanisms, honing a useful skill, and getting a better understanding of how locks work and protect—or fail to protect—you and your ...

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.

Once a month a group of amateur lock pickers get together at Houston bar to pick locks. It might sound like an odd or even criminal hobby, but for the members of the group it’s a way to exercise ...

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 ...

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 ...

As he manipulates a skinny pick to defeat a lock, 25-year-old Schuyler Towne wants to make one thing very clear: Real "locksporters" abide by a strict code of ethics. "Never pick a lock you don't own, ...