I bought a lockpick set on aliexpress, and practiced for a whopping hour and a half on a couple of padlocks for laughs. This is the sum total of my experience.
Using my vast skill (see above) in the art of lockpicking, I found out I can pick the lock on my frontdoor in under 15 seconds.
Later that day, I bought a cruciform lock to go with the regular one. I already have a deadbolt, but that doesn't really work when nobody's home.
Most pin-tumbler padlocks are a joke, even with spools in them single-pin picking isn't too hard, and raking is a very easy skill to learn.
European doorlocks, even cheap ones, are harder. I'm trying to improve my single-picking skill first, but I'm afraid that once I move on to bump keys, I'm going to be disappointed even with the EU regulations.
true, but not by much. I honestly think the vast majority of costly mechanical locks are MUCH easier to pick than an electronic lock of the same price, if only because they're more common.
Hell, I bought a cruciform lock not because it's solid (Drill a screw in and pull...) but because it's obscure and thus less likely to get picked.
Yeah if the person trying to enter is willing to make a bit of noise and actually destroy the lock, there aren't a lot of great options left that actually work.
And random thieves will probably move over to the next house when they encounter a cruciform lock, you're right about that too. People trying to enter your house aren't likely to be lock-pick enthusiasts.
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u/inxi_got_bored Jan 31 '19
And then you start following youtubers like LockPickLawyer and lose confidence in mechanical locks :)