I’m amazed at how many people leave a
key within feet of the front door
usually in the most obvious of places if
you have a key under a mat above the
door or in a very obvious fake looking
rock you might as well just leave your
doors unlocked the key to keys is
putting them someplace truly invisible
so ditch the fake rock and craft an
ingenious false bottom on a potted plant
like this using industrial-strength
velcro you can hide a key under a garden
fence nobody would ever think to look
there and with a little PVC piping and a
plastic cap you can make a lawn
sprinkler with a secret compartment so
beat the system homeowners and get
creative because there’s no shortage of
new ways for criminals to get inside
houses we’re pretty casual about
flashing our keys in public or tossing
them down on a table but this is the
21st century and keys are nothing more
than a visual code that can now be
digitally hacked nowadays criminals
don’t even need to steal your key to
make a copy of it all they need is a
photograph in a 3d printer and they can
create a plastic model that will fit
your lock like a glove
well it might seem like science fiction
these printers are becoming increasingly
common they lay down a liquid plastic
and thin layers to create
three-dimensional objects
look at this this is a perfectly
functional exact replica of the key and
the guy doesn’t even know it’s stolen
just with a photograph you could get
something like this this is why you
can’t just flash your keys out in public
you got to use a key sheet this is
something simple cheap you could keep it
on you and it won’t expose your keys
it’s just one photograph and boom you’re
compromised all right so let’s say the
bad guys can’t get a hold of your key
they can’t get a photograph of it either
just how easy is it to pick modern locks
behind this door is you your family and
all of your valuable possessions your
safe and secure right protected by the
deadbolt not so much the fact is door
lock technology hasn’t advanced much
over the years the basic concept is
simple a grooved key pushes a set of
pins known as tumblers into various
positions when they’re all in the right
spots the keys free to turn a cam inside
the lock cylinder and the door opens and
there are plenty of other tools that a
crook can employ like a bump key it’s a
sort of skeleton key made by taking a
normal key and filing down the teeth by
tapping on it the vibration causes the
pins on the lock to jump and jam into
position watch all you have to do is put
it halfway into the lock give it a
couple of Slams
and just like that you’re in newer
well-made locks are less susceptible to
these bump keys so be sure your front
door is up to snuff
key within feet of the front door
usually in the most obvious of places if
you have a key under a mat above the
door or in a very obvious fake looking
rock you might as well just leave your
doors unlocked the key to keys is
putting them someplace truly invisible
so ditch the fake rock and craft an
ingenious false bottom on a potted plant
like this using industrial-strength
velcro you can hide a key under a garden
fence nobody would ever think to look
there and with a little PVC piping and a
plastic cap you can make a lawn
sprinkler with a secret compartment so
beat the system homeowners and get
creative because there’s no shortage of
new ways for criminals to get inside
houses we’re pretty casual about
flashing our keys in public or tossing
them down on a table but this is the
21st century and keys are nothing more
than a visual code that can now be
digitally hacked nowadays criminals
don’t even need to steal your key to
make a copy of it all they need is a
photograph in a 3d printer and they can
create a plastic model that will fit
your lock like a glove
well it might seem like science fiction
these printers are becoming increasingly
common they lay down a liquid plastic
and thin layers to create
three-dimensional objects
look at this this is a perfectly
functional exact replica of the key and
the guy doesn’t even know it’s stolen
just with a photograph you could get
something like this this is why you
can’t just flash your keys out in public
you got to use a key sheet this is
something simple cheap you could keep it
on you and it won’t expose your keys
it’s just one photograph and boom you’re
compromised all right so let’s say the
bad guys can’t get a hold of your key
they can’t get a photograph of it either
just how easy is it to pick modern locks
behind this door is you your family and
all of your valuable possessions your
safe and secure right protected by the
deadbolt not so much the fact is door
lock technology hasn’t advanced much
over the years the basic concept is
simple a grooved key pushes a set of
pins known as tumblers into various
positions when they’re all in the right
spots the keys free to turn a cam inside
the lock cylinder and the door opens and
there are plenty of other tools that a
crook can employ like a bump key it’s a
sort of skeleton key made by taking a
normal key and filing down the teeth by
tapping on it the vibration causes the
pins on the lock to jump and jam into
position watch all you have to do is put
it halfway into the lock give it a
couple of Slams
and just like that you’re in newer
well-made locks are less susceptible to
these bump keys so be sure your front
door is up to snuff
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