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  • This is the lock picking lawyer, and every once in a while I see a lock that reminds me in striking fashion why I make these videos.

  • The lock you see on the left is the master lock bottle 77 a lot first introduced in the early 19 thirties, though this particular one was probably made in the 19 fifties or sixties.

  • But what I really want to point out is the core.

  • It's a normal pin tumbler design with just four standard pins.

  • And, of course, it is trivially easy to pick open.

  • Let me show you that right now we're going to use bottom of the key way tension with a wiper insert in a standard hooking 25 thousands.

  • Nothing on 123 okay for is binding.

  • Click there, click out of three, click out of two and click out of one.

  • We open that up.

  • Now let's compare it to the recently redesigned Master Lock number three.

  • This redesign hit the shelves over 75 years after the Model 77 like the Model 77 it has four easily pick standard pins.

  • Let's open this one up as well.

  • Once again, Bottom of the key way.

  • Tension with the same wiper insert and a standard hooking 25 thousands.

  • Okay, click out of one click out of two.

  • Nothing on three click out of four.

  • That should just leave three.

  • And indeed, that opened it up.

  • So more than 75 years and no appreciable improvement in pick resistance.

  • This exemplifies why it's so important that we don't just wait for the lock industry to improve and innovate on its own.

  • There have been decades of stagnation, and it will only improve when consumers are better educated and they demand more.

  • In any case, that's all I have for you today.

  • If you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below you like this video and would like to see more like it.

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This is the lock picking lawyer, and every once in a while I see a lock that reminds me in striking fashion why I make these videos.

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