you should not leave a safe empty, so you can just throw some electronics in there that detect opening, movement etc. To allow for save handling, the alarm can be on a time delay. For the movement sensor, that would even be good practice. Imaging you move the box and it shrills a random amount of time after the trigger: You never figure out what movement activates the alarm.
@@jort93z A light detector is actually a nice idea. When you open it for maintenance (like changing the battery), you can just do it in a dark room and deactivate the system (like by removing the battery) by feel. A simple and easy solution.
A really secure safe should probably alarm even when opened as intended, like some door alarms for secure areas do, so if anyone is nearby they know it was opened even if someone stole a legitimate key/card/pin
I like the diversion idea. I have small safe that I needed to open because the keys were in it and when searching for a solution found this channel. It now sits empty on a prominent shelf.
@emilygoodenough9052 I think it does have some empty jewelry boxes and keys for cars I don't own anymore. It wasn't intentional but the things that were being kept in it have been moved.
@@zidane2k1 if you're a single person with few friends that will be more secure than a safe, but so is any non obvious hiding spot if youre single with few friends
@@monad_tcp because then someone who breaks into the safe thinks they found your valuables and doesn't keep looking. I literally only realized why I had been given that advice for years without explanation as I read this comment thread.
I got a walk in closet with really stuck in door, you gotta lift and pull hard. I'm now under impression it is more secure than 90% locking implementations out there.
I mean, "lift and pull hard", plus maybe "whack with a hammer", is kind of how a lot of these locks are defeated (either picked or forced), so I guess it's at least on par...
Have it small enough for them to walk away with and not having to deal with the locks at all on site, but heavy enough to cause them trouble carrying it. Must be gold bars in this, after cutting it open it's filled with lead weights.
"You would have been more secure without the safe as now all your valuables are in the same place" really is more of a scathing review than the easy picking.
@@Celestia282 agreed. I wasn't talking specifically about this safe though. I was speaking in regards to the over all general lack of security in the devices and how they are more fitting for games than actual security.
@@jamesphillips2285 store the shoebox together with more shoeboxes with shoes inside. And have the "safebox" towards the bottom. Anyone looking through the boxes would just find shoes. And let them be old, used shoes, possibly on the cheaper end, to prevent a shoe thief from taking your stuff on accident.
It’s funny, before watching LPL videos I thought it was stupid to try to pick a lock with paper clips. When I received my locker at work, they couldn’t find the key so I just picked by making a pick and turner with paper clips and got it open. I was truly impressed with myself
Most of those "manufacturers" are supplied the same lock by some company in China. You'd have to have the Chinese see LPL's videos if you want any changes while RUclips is banned over there 😂
A small safe like this doesn't do jack shit anyways. No robber would bother breaking into it, they'd just take the whole thing with them and break it open of necessary. Source: house robber stole my entire empty safe
Don't get me started on plastic mayonnaise/dressing sachets .. For some reason they don't want you getting inside of them if they don't have the tiny tear in the corner... grrrr
Damn... LPL is getting closer and closer to the ultimate video: LPL: Hello, this is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today I have for you... _Lock opens itself in fear_ LPL: As you can see, this one was very easy to open. That's all I have for you today...
Alternative sticker : "If you locked your override keys, please note that you can open this safe in seconds with the Covert Instruments Tubular Lock Pick"
I'm certainly no lock picker but am addicted to your wondeful, often a lot shorter than expected (like this one) videos on picking locks, etc. But it had never occurred to me to have this as a false safe in case of thieves, not only love it but it's really an excellent idea! Thanks.
>opens lockpicking lawyer video >sees the video is on a Yale safe >looks at his own safe he's had for years >they look the exact same *nervous laughter*
Urrgh! Again! Spending hours researching for a small safe. Twice now I've decided on a safe, then searched here and found them to be so so easy to open.
"Thieves don't put the jewelry into the safe. They put it behind the painting next to the save or somewhere else less obvious." - Dureena Nafeel, Babylon 5.
Funny thing about it is that Yale is owned by Assa Abloy, so they could have potentially chosen any of several much higher security cam locks from their parts bins for the backup, but they went the Harbor Freight Safe route instead.
@Martin Baldwin-Edwards I am saying sourcing a cam lock from the parts bin of Assa, Abloy, or probably Medeco wouldn't have been so hard for them, especially Medeco. But yeah the big corporate entity doesn't seem to care much about security except on commercial installations.
But, of course, they are just rebranding a generic safe mass produced in Asia, and getting them to fit one of their secure lock would increase the price to something above practically nothing. The problem here is that the alarm should sound as soon as someone touches the backup cylinder - but that would involve including a half-cent sensor, which is far to much to add to the cost.
I filled mine's keyhole with removable resin unless they have the correct dissolvent no keys going in there. Got the idea from a similar lockpickinglawyer video from the past about vulnerability of such safes. PS: To those wondering what stops thieves from simply taking the whole thing and going away. It has lugnuts at the rear that pins it to the wall
I have a vintage Cole double walled cement filled fire safe that I took as collateral on a loan to a college friend. This safe has been in several residences. I have had two break-ins over the decades where significant time was wasted on this safe: in one the safe was pulled out into the middle of a room, in another the safe was moved and left upside down in the hall. The safe weighs well over 200 pounds empty. I use it to this day as a key box, for some old personal files, and as a storage box for my collection of lead diving weights and fusible alloy ingots. As a decoy it has functioned well, I just never place it on the ground floor. I took pity on it and added a documents only tag to the corner of the door twenty years ago, the safe was unmolested in my most recent break-in. I was abroad for a decade and after shipping several safes to my new home, the old S&G's discs in the Cole's lock were sticking from a decade in a storage unit. A local 100 years in business lock and safe company had two of the very vintage lock assemblies, but their safe guy had no clue how to price them. I paid the price of a modern S&G lock and was quite happy. When I set the combination manually on each disc everything was off a couple of numbers on the face dial. I just had to set the disc pack two numbers off to account for the lock not being mounted straight on the tabs set in cement, seems the original lock had wider gates. I am sure I could have refurbished the old lock but even for a retired guy sometimes it is better to buy new, plus now I have a spare. This safe has a locked document box in the upper left that is secured by a five lever key lock. As a teen it took me awhile to pick that lock with bent wire. Once open I removed levers 1, 3 & 5. Now that door opens with the tiny file on older fingernail clippers. Fifteen years ago I found that door lock online and bought a replacement. Which I locked in the compartment, so when some future hack destroys the current lock they will find the replacement inside. The fingernail clipper key hang with my cabinet and padlock key collection inside the door.
Nice to see project farm give you a mention on his wheel lock test and review. Got my covert instruments padlock shim kit, thanks. Your customer service is fantastic. Even if my local post office sucks and send it back. Your people are great! Love your channel. Great new hobby
I feel like at this point the most secure thing would be to get an Indiana Jones style warehouse, fill it with boxes of random junk, and put a box with my stuff in there
Most lock smiths just drill and cut. They do very little picking. There are several of them on here and every encounter I have ever had with a locksmith or people who have directly talked about it simply say they drilled or cut. Even many many news stories talk about companies that could just pick the door in 30 seconds drilled it because its about upselling and upselling a new lock is far better than wasting a service call and charging for 1 min of work. They will upsell you a 250 dollars lock because that is all I have on had at the moment. Yet I could not be bothered to go and buy a bunch of standard locks that the majority of people use. The same with car locks you will find a lot of people who attempt to bump your door lock rather than use a lichi tool. Which can be quite pricey when it comes down to owing every one they sell and knowing which models they fit.
I've seen you use the impressioning tool you've used in this video multiple times now and i'm curious as to how and why it works. I understand picking pin tumblers and wafers already but these tubular locks still confuse me. Have you shown us how tubular locks function and how this impressioning tool bypasses them in detail yet?
Think of the pins in normal locks just in a circle. That is what the key is like. Instead of s straight line they are in a circle and pressing down pushed the pins in the right order. I think. I am just using logic. Though a video would be super cool about it!
@@kameljoe21Right distance, order doesn't matter. There's a notch in the key to turn the core, tool contains picks for each pin that get left in the correct depths after picking.
I’d like to see you use tools that thieves would actually have. These specialty tools are crafty and make your picking a snap, but how often are they going to have these highly custom tools
This took a turn to a worse than I thought. I had the idea of Yale being a quality brand. They do make smart locks for houses and I was thinking of getting one. I might have to reconsider. Any change you could take a look at their house smart locks?
He did a few years ago; the ones with bypass key were easy to open. They now sell models with no bypass key, which should be a longer deterrent to entry. Keep in mind - the door is one of the least likely entry points to the house - windows and sliding doors are much more attractive. The advantage to the Yale is the RFID keyless entry; approach door, it unlocks.
@@tonylarose4842 I don't know how Yale Doorman L3 (that one I have considered) differs from the ones LPL has tested, but this is approved by insurance companies, I highly doubt this could be bypassed with a magnet. Has LPL tested any of the Yale smart locks for houses?
Yale is putting out lousy products anymore. This one worked perfectly, LPL bought it. Like a vending machine that doesn't dispense the product but keeps your money, same kind of thing
I think he just buys (or sometimes is gifted) everything he can find with a lock on it. I don't think he was actually "duped" into buying it as if he was going to use it, only to find out it's junk, he bought it probably KNOWING it was junk so he could make this video with it.
@@ADoseofBuckley I didn't mean to suggest LPL was duped, I said he bought it. He reviews security devices. My original comment stands. The device functioned perfectly. Mission accomplished
Back in the 90's tubular locks were so secure. I got a bicycle lock that was so highly rated it would reduce your insurance premium on a motorbike. Now I think LPL could pick that old lock with used chewing gum
It's easy, but time-consuming. It's easier than picking a normal lock, because you can see exactly where the pins are to pick them, and you don't need a hook or a rake, you just need something that can press them down. It's time-consuming because there's usually seven pins (as opposed to four-six for a normal lock), and each pick only rotates it one-eighth of a turn, so you normally have to pick it at least twice. The impressioning tool speeds up the process, and it also allows you (if you're so inclined) to make yourself a key for the lock so you can come back and access it whenever you want.
If i were a safe company id create an alarm when theres floating white lawyer hands next to a soothing voice. Maybe even activate when the words “covert instruments” is said lol
This just reminded me of my uncle who had this Giant Safe that weighed tons, he would take his money put a rubber band around it and throw it behind the safe. I said what gives, he said let them spend time breaking into the safe to find Nothing. LMFIAO
A highly-skilled lockpicker using a specialized tool was able to open it quickly. Sounds like I only have to worry about this safe if the person breaking into my house is you.
You could hack the alarm and add a photocell to the tubular lock hole so when the backup cover is removed it goes off and it would be greatly improved.
I want to watch LPL do something I call the turlocken challenge. The idea is to take a small item (perhaps just a marble), and lock it in a small container, lock that container in something, that one in something else, and so on until you have it all in a big safe; for preference, each layer should use a lock requiring a different technique to get into. The challenge is to see how quickly LPL can get through all the layers of protectiong to reclaim the marble, without using the keys/codes (obviously). Bonus points for each layer using a bypass of some kind rather than straight-up picking, and an extra bonus if exactly one layer is bypassed destructively.
"Less safe than if you'd left them scattered around because now they're all in one convenient place that is a target for thieves", is what he effectively said - that is throwing some serious shade.
I purchased a non-alarmed version from this product range a while back, predominantly because you hadn't featured it on your channel. Now I have to throw it away and start another Safe Search 😭
I don't know what's better - the sexual innuendo or the speed with which he opened this. Sigh. I'm beginning to think the best way to protect valuables is to the leave them in plain sight, surrounded by German Shepherds with suspicious minds.
I recently got a new 24” Samsonite Luggage. It comes with a TSA lock built into it. LPL has already shown how easy it is to defeat the TSA lock with either a cheap TSA key online or with a wave rake. However this luggage is even worse as it has a 3 digit combination lock. Not only is 3 digits a weak combination that can easily be guessed. It gets even worse. I figured out how to decode it without any tools just as fast as if I had the code. I found that when locked and firmly pressing in the open button while simultaneously moving the code wheels. The correct numbers will have a noticeable click, while the non correct numbers would just glide by. It’s obviously not a security lock only prevents luggage from opening during flight.
Put a brick and a electronic tracker in this and lay it on bedroom closet floor. Perfect decoy. Then hide your cash and jewels in a fake AC return in a wall in hallway.
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Product idea: diversion safe that is easy to open and sounds alarm whenever opened no matter what.
you should not leave a safe empty, so you can just throw some electronics in there that detect opening, movement etc.
To allow for save handling, the alarm can be on a time delay. For the movement sensor, that would even be good practice.
Imaging you move the box and it shrills a random amount of time after the trigger: You never figure out what movement activates the alarm.
@@sarowie you'd wanna bolt a safe down to the floor, walls of heavy furniture. Even a diversion safe.
Could simply put a light detector inside.
@@jort93z A light detector is actually a nice idea. When you open it for maintenance (like changing the battery), you can just do it in a dark room and deactivate the system (like by removing the battery) by feel. A simple and easy solution.
Wait, wait... Let him cook
A really secure safe should probably alarm even when opened as intended, like some door alarms for secure areas do, so if anyone is nearby they know it was opened even if someone stole a legitimate key/card/pin
I like the diversion idea. I have small safe that I needed to open because the keys were in it and when searching for a solution found this channel. It now sits empty on a prominent shelf.
Don't leave it empty. Put a bunch of papers and a couple jewelry boxes with flashy trash jewelry in there. Maybe a nice looking water pistol? LOL
@emilygoodenough9052 I think it does have some empty jewelry boxes and keys for cars I don't own anymore. It wasn't intentional but the things that were being kept in it have been moved.
@@EmilyGOODEN0UGH And then put the actual valuables and documents inside a box of store-brand cereal in the pantry?
@@zidane2k1 if you're a single person with few friends that will be more secure than a safe, but so is any non obvious hiding spot if youre single with few friends
@@monad_tcp because then someone who breaks into the safe thinks they found your valuables and doesn't keep looking.
I literally only realized why I had been given that advice for years without explanation as I read this comment thread.
They should have written "Please do not store your override keys and your Covert Instruments Tubular Lock Pick at the same time"
throw the keys and they will be forced to watch LPL... STONKS!
We all know the most secure place to store a covert companion is inside a blister pack that's covered in duct tape.
@@jaseiwilde I sometimes wonder how many thieves watch LPL, buy his tools, and watch videos on their phone while doing a break-in.
@@RationalEgoism Then after they've broken in, lock up and do it again in case it was a fluke
Yep, you're probably lost when you put your tubular pick toolkit inside.
I got a walk in closet with really stuck in door, you gotta lift and pull hard. I'm now under impression it is more secure than 90% locking implementations out there.
I mean, "lift and pull hard", plus maybe "whack with a hammer", is kind of how a lot of these locks are defeated (either picked or forced), so I guess it's at least on par...
The "diversion" tactic is its best feature!😂
But it would divert them for about ten seconds. I suppose you could booby-trap it....
@@BarryRowlingsonBaz great idea but I'd forget that I've booby-trapped it. 😄
@@DonzLockz Just write it on the door. Thieves won't believe it, you know you should.^^
@@Alresu haha!😆 very true!
Have it small enough for them to walk away with and not having to deal with the locks at all on site, but heavy enough to cause them trouble carrying it. Must be gold bars in this, after cutting it open it's filled with lead weights.
"You would have been more secure without the safe as now all your valuables are in the same place" really is more of a scathing review than the easy picking.
A decoy safe is only good, when you know it is a decoy :D
I've been buying up a variety of locks and safes for use as escape room components. Probably the best use of them.
I would think a safe with an alarm loud enough to cause hearing damage would not be a good product to use in an escape room.
@@Celestia282 agreed. I wasn't talking specifically about this safe though. I was speaking in regards to the over all general lack of security in the devices and how they are more fitting for games than actual security.
1:50 ah yes, the old "put the actual valuables in a shoebox next to the safe you welded shut" trick
I wouldn't put the shoebox *right next* to the diversion safe. Intruder may accidentally kick it open in that case.
Shoes are the first things a certain ahem section of thieves steal.
@@jamesphillips2285 store the shoebox together with more shoeboxes with shoes inside. And have the "safebox" towards the bottom. Anyone looking through the boxes would just find shoes. And let them be old, used shoes, possibly on the cheaper end, to prevent a shoe thief from taking your stuff on accident.
movie critics: "that's stupid, you can't pick a lock with anything straight and metal"
lock companies: "are you sure about that"
LPL: hold my scotch 😂
It’s funny, before watching LPL videos I thought it was stupid to try to pick a lock with paper clips. When I received my locker at work, they couldn’t find the key so I just picked by making a pick and turner with paper clips and got it open. I was truly impressed with myself
Sometimes you need round and metal.
Lpl can literally open anything and everything.. All manufacturers should consult him before making any product.. Lpl you're the best
He said in a talk last year that he tried to tell them all but they just don't care
There are some locks he failed to unlock, but it takes a lot to make him fail.
Yet still he has failed to pick any regular door locks (not cylindrical)
Most of those "manufacturers" are supplied the same lock by some company in China. You'd have to have the Chinese see LPL's videos if you want any changes while RUclips is banned over there 😂
@@Rafaelinuxsome are better than others
You gotta love it when a safe is only good as a diversion! I think they call those toys...
A small safe like this doesn't do jack shit anyways. No robber would bother breaking into it, they'd just take the whole thing with them and break it open of necessary.
Source: house robber stole my entire empty safe
@@TheThursty100 It really isn't the products fault if you can't read the user manual.
@@Jehty_ in this case the safe wasn't tested because they just took it
@@ingamingpc1634 and they were able to take it because Timbo didn't read the user manual.
@@TheThursty100 Ever a small safe can be bolted to something immovable like a wall or a floor, including the safe in the video.
It took me longer to get into a new deodorant this morning than it did for you to jiggle that lock open twice. 😂
😂
lmao
Don't get me started on plastic mayonnaise/dressing sachets ..
For some reason they don't want you getting inside of them if they don't have the tiny tear in the corner...
grrrr
Damn... LPL is getting closer and closer to the ultimate video:
LPL: Hello, this is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today I have for you...
_Lock opens itself in fear_
LPL: As you can see, this one was very easy to open. That's all I have for you today...
I really want to get a sound activated lock that opens to that phrase
😂😂😂😂
Don’t give Master Lock new ideas.
LPL The Chuck Norris of locked locks!👍
Ah that will be LPLs off spring when they develop telekinesis....
I love the little sticker they put in the upper left corner, perfectly addressing the intelligence of their buyers. :D
The sticker says “Please do not store override keys inside”. But I bet that is where the LPL keeps them.
That avoids losing.
Which is why I stored my car's reserve key in the booth.
Can we talk about that brilliant "don't store the keys in the safe" sticker? 😂
Alternative sticker : "If you locked your override keys, please note that you can open this safe in seconds with the Covert Instruments Tubular Lock Pick"
I'm sure it was VERY alarmed when it saw LPL headed its way!
Tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is an alarm when you are... unable... to... sound... it?
but how it knew?....
Underrated comment
🤣🤣🤣
I wish LPL would give us an update on Bosnian Bill. I hope he and his family are doing well.
I'm certainly no lock picker but am addicted to your wondeful, often a lot shorter than expected (like this one) videos on picking locks, etc. But it had never occurred to me to have this as a false safe in case of thieves, not only love it but it's really an excellent idea! Thanks.
LPL never disappoints!
Yale, however, does.
Too bad the same can't be said for the lock manufacturers.
Literally the most consistent content on RUclips, bar none... no pun intended.
At this point I’d be more surprised if it were a fluke
>opens lockpicking lawyer video
>sees the video is on a Yale safe
>looks at his own safe he's had for years
>they look the exact same
*nervous laughter*
Urrgh! Again! Spending hours researching for a small safe. Twice now I've decided on a safe, then searched here and found them to be so so easy to open.
The video hasn't even started and I'm already laughing: "Please do not store override keys inside". 😆
That little smirk each time he opened the safe at the first try is priceless.
Can you hear a smirk?
Did you mean chuckle?
@@MitchJT You can hear people smiling, yes.
That did it! We need to see a LPL certification for locks made.
It's a great diversionary safe, sales will surge!
If I had a diversionary safe, I would have a piece of paper inside that read $1,000,000.
@@stefanfrankel8157 I'd have a fake crypto wallet private key, along with a, possibly real, crypto wallet public key.
"Thieves don't put the jewelry into the safe. They put it behind the painting next to the save or somewhere else less obvious."
- Dureena Nafeel, Babylon 5.
Love the reference!
The safe you mean.
Funny thing about it is that Yale is owned by Assa Abloy, so they could have potentially chosen any of several much higher security cam locks from their parts bins for the backup, but they went the Harbor Freight Safe route instead.
@Martin Baldwin-Edwards I am saying sourcing a cam lock from the parts bin of Assa, Abloy, or probably Medeco wouldn't have been so hard for them, especially Medeco. But yeah the big corporate entity doesn't seem to care much about security except on commercial installations.
I was thinking to myself "how come nobody uses an Abloy cylinder as the backup?", so reading this comment, I'm even more disappointed in the company.
But, of course, they are just rebranding a generic safe mass produced in Asia, and getting them to fit one of their secure lock would increase the price to something above practically nothing.
The problem here is that the alarm should sound as soon as someone touches the backup cylinder - but that would involve including a half-cent sensor, which is far to much to add to the cost.
I filled mine's keyhole with removable resin unless they have the correct dissolvent no keys going in there. Got the idea from a similar lockpickinglawyer video from the past about vulnerability of such safes.
PS: To those wondering what stops thieves from simply taking the whole thing and going away. It has lugnuts at the rear that pins it to the wall
As soon as he says “a diversion of potential thieves”
All I had in my head was “ another great day of saving the bees”
Last time I was this early he was the LawPickingLawStudent.
I have a vintage Cole double walled cement filled fire safe that I took as collateral on a loan to a college friend. This safe has been in several residences. I have had two break-ins over the decades where significant time was wasted on this safe: in one the safe was pulled out into the middle of a room, in another the safe was moved and left upside down in the hall. The safe weighs well over 200 pounds empty.
I use it to this day as a key box, for some old personal files, and as a storage box for my collection of lead diving weights and fusible alloy ingots. As a decoy it has functioned well, I just never place it on the ground floor. I took pity on it and added a documents only tag to the corner of the door twenty years ago, the safe was unmolested in my most recent break-in.
I was abroad for a decade and after shipping several safes to my new home, the old S&G's discs in the Cole's lock were sticking from a decade in a storage unit. A local 100 years in business lock and safe company had two of the very vintage lock assemblies, but their safe guy had no clue how to price them. I paid the price of a modern S&G lock and was quite happy. When I set the combination manually on each disc everything was off a couple of numbers on the face dial. I just had to set the disc pack two numbers off to account for the lock not being mounted straight on the tabs set in cement, seems the original lock had wider gates. I am sure I could have refurbished the old lock but even for a retired guy sometimes it is better to buy new, plus now I have a spare.
This safe has a locked document box in the upper left that is secured by a five lever key lock. As a teen it took me awhile to pick that lock with bent wire. Once open I removed levers 1, 3 & 5. Now that door opens with the tiny file on older fingernail clippers. Fifteen years ago I found that door lock online and bought a replacement. Which I locked in the compartment, so when some future hack destroys the current lock they will find the replacement inside. The fingernail clipper key hang with my cabinet and padlock key collection inside the door.
Nice to see project farm give you a mention on his wheel lock test and review.
Got my covert instruments padlock shim kit, thanks. Your customer service is fantastic. Even if my local post office sucks and send it back. Your people are great! Love your channel. Great new hobby
i like that they label the front, telling you to not store the override keys inside- because it's not a secure location lol
I feel like at this point the most secure thing would be to get an Indiana Jones style warehouse, fill it with boxes of random junk, and put a box with my stuff in there
I love the channel. Being a skilled lock picker seems like a satisfying hobby and/or satisfying job.
Most lock smiths just drill and cut. They do very little picking. There are several of them on here and every encounter I have ever had with a locksmith or people who have directly talked about it simply say they drilled or cut. Even many many news stories talk about companies that could just pick the door in 30 seconds drilled it because its about upselling and upselling a new lock is far better than wasting a service call and charging for 1 min of work. They will upsell you a 250 dollars lock because that is all I have on had at the moment. Yet I could not be bothered to go and buy a bunch of standard locks that the majority of people use.
The same with car locks you will find a lot of people who attempt to bump your door lock rather than use a lichi tool. Which can be quite pricey when it comes down to owing every one they sell and knowing which models they fit.
An even quicker method of entry can be observed by placing the wife's icecream in the safe.
This couldn't happen to a 'Harvard' lock.....=))
I've seen you use the impressioning tool you've used in this video multiple times now and i'm curious as to how and why it works. I understand picking pin tumblers and wafers already but these tubular locks still confuse me. Have you shown us how tubular locks function and how this impressioning tool bypasses them in detail yet?
Think of the pins in normal locks just in a circle. That is what the key is like. Instead of s straight line they are in a circle and pressing down pushed the pins in the right order. I think. I am just using logic. Though a video would be super cool about it!
@@kameljoe21Right distance, order doesn't matter. There's a notch in the key to turn the core, tool contains picks for each pin that get left in the correct depths after picking.
It never ceases to amaze me the sheer negligence exercised by these 'security' company's touting subpar garbage products!
Thank goodness I finally found a use for this tubular lock pick that I just have laying around.
That is why I have an (old) safe in my bedroom closet with about 80 lbs bricks and a can of coins.. Go ahead and carry it out - - - -
Alarmed at how quickly it opens, I suppose.
When LPL laughs at a product, that’s when you KNOW it’s bad.
When an expert lock picking crook shows up with every lock pick made to man, and a bunch, he designed, and had manufactured, I know, I am in trouble.
I’d like to see you use tools that thieves would actually have. These specialty tools are crafty and make your picking a snap, but how often are they going to have these highly custom tools
The smart ones will buy them since they will be good investments.
That’s my thought exactly. The average burglar is gonna be a smash and grab kinda person.
130 decibel alarm? Most burglar alarm sirens and fire alarms aren’t even that loud.
It almost sounds like he's in disbelief about how quickly he opened it - both times.
A sign saying "pretty please don't open" would be more effective
Good job, LPL!
I'm hiring for a bank heist, where can I find you? 😂
Thankfully most common thieves don't have any of your tools, I wouldn't expect anything to stop a professional to be honest.
*places 8 of them around the house with a Billy puppet doll next to one*
"Mr home invader. I want to play a game"
It's where you store your decoy gold
And toy firearms.
The people at Yale, the lock company, clearly did not graduate from Yale, the school.
Maybe they did, they created a woke lock, they didn’t want to offend thieves by making it too difficult
@@ukusanzYale educates the lawyers defending the thieves, as well as greedy businessmen, no need to bring in your right wing nonsense .
Wow. Even as tubular locks go, that's about the fastest he's gotten that tool to work. We're talking kid's toy level of resitance.
Lol
The note "please do not store override keys inside"
This took a turn to a worse than I thought. I had the idea of Yale being a quality brand. They do make smart locks for houses and I was thinking of getting one. I might have to reconsider. Any change you could take a look at their house smart locks?
Don't get a smart lock, LPL has so many videos of getting into them using a high powered magnet.
From watching LPL for a while, I have the impression the smartest lock you can get is one that isn't "smart" at all.
He did a few years ago; the ones with bypass key were easy to open. They now sell models with no bypass key, which should be a longer deterrent to entry. Keep in mind - the door is one of the least likely entry points to the house - windows and sliding doors are much more attractive. The advantage to the Yale is the RFID keyless entry; approach door, it unlocks.
@@tonylarose4842 I don't know how Yale Doorman L3 (that one I have considered) differs from the ones LPL has tested, but this is approved by insurance companies, I highly doubt this could be bypassed with a magnet. Has LPL tested any of the Yale smart locks for houses?
All these companies have expensive well built items, as well as cheap asian rebranded rubbish like this.
The safe is better as a diversion than a safe. 🤣 as usual LPL is savage when it comes to poor lock design
I wonder if you even need the tubular impressioning tool to open that beauty
Just a press and a little wiggle and a giggle is all it takes.
I recommend this safe... As a diversion.
Yale is putting out lousy products anymore. This one worked perfectly, LPL bought it. Like a vending machine that doesn't dispense the product but keeps your money, same kind of thing
I think he just buys (or sometimes is gifted) everything he can find with a lock on it. I don't think he was actually "duped" into buying it as if he was going to use it, only to find out it's junk, he bought it probably KNOWING it was junk so he could make this video with it.
@@ADoseofBuckley exactly 💯
@@ADoseofBuckley I didn't mean to suggest LPL was duped, I said he bought it. He reviews security devices. My original comment stands. The device functioned perfectly. Mission accomplished
Back in the 90's tubular locks were so secure. I got a bicycle lock that was so highly rated it would reduce your insurance premium on a motorbike.
Now I think LPL could pick that old lock with used chewing gum
This is horrific! Best used as a decoy because it's worse than no security? Mercy
How hard is it to pick tubular locks without a premade custom tool?
It's easy, but time-consuming. It's easier than picking a normal lock, because you can see exactly where the pins are to pick them, and you don't need a hook or a rake, you just need something that can press them down. It's time-consuming because there's usually seven pins (as opposed to four-six for a normal lock), and each pick only rotates it one-eighth of a turn, so you normally have to pick it at least twice. The impressioning tool speeds up the process, and it also allows you (if you're so inclined) to make yourself a key for the lock so you can come back and access it whenever you want.
@@tomprice-nicholson743 I got a similar cheapo safe. I destroyed the secondary tubular lock using a drill, does this make my safe safer?
You could say LPL really is "peeling back the layers" to reveal Yale's security flaws! 😬😏🙈
lock peeling lawyer?
Great demonstration thanks.
If i were a safe company id create an alarm when theres floating white lawyer hands next to a soothing voice. Maybe even activate when the words “covert instruments” is said lol
Been a while since we've seen single pin picking of tubular locks.
I'm alarmed you don't feel safe using this product from Yale. So much for big name schools. I think you just schooled them!
Yale is named for the man that started the company . He's probably rotating in his grave over what the money men have done to his name.
It's the half-suppressed chuckle on the second open for me. 😂
This just reminded me of my uncle who had this Giant Safe that weighed tons, he would take his money put a rubber band around it and throw it behind the safe. I said what gives, he said let them spend time breaking into the safe to find Nothing. LMFIAO
Thieves are like, that's a new lock, lets check out LPL if he has a tool for it.
A highly-skilled lockpicker using a specialized tool was able to open it quickly. Sounds like I only have to worry about this safe if the person breaking into my house is you.
It’s really amazing that this kind of ”safes” still exist under such of well known brand.
Keep your Snickers bars in this. Hide your cash in your freezer 😂
You could hack the alarm and add a photocell to the tubular lock hole so when the backup cover is removed it goes off and it would be greatly improved.
I kinda expected a test of triggering the alarm system intentionally, so we were certain it hadn't been disabled before the lockpicking.
Diversion sounds like a great idea. Wrap a brick in an old shirt so it’s heavy but doesn’t clank. Make it seem like it has important stuff in it.
Yale locks used to be the "must have for security" but clearly not anymore
They never really were, we just didn't know better
the safe: has an alarm
also the safe: has a mechanical lock
LPL: here we go.
he's hiding something from us in that safe.
I want to watch LPL do something I call the turlocken challenge.
The idea is to take a small item (perhaps just a marble), and lock it in a small container, lock that container in something, that one in something else, and so on until you have it all in a big safe; for preference, each layer should use a lock requiring a different technique to get into. The challenge is to see how quickly LPL can get through all the layers of protectiong to reclaim the marble, without using the keys/codes (obviously).
Bonus points for each layer using a bypass of some kind rather than straight-up picking, and an extra bonus if exactly one layer is bypassed destructively.
"Less safe than if you'd left them scattered around because now they're all in one convenient place that is a target for thieves", is what he effectively said - that is throwing some serious shade.
"Do not store override keys inside"
LPL: LMAO
Seems like it would be better as a movie prop, than a real safe.
@1:48 I just read a D&D adventure module about something like this. Somebody hid a bunch of venomous snakes in a decoy treasure chest to trap thieves.
LPL:
My refrigerator is harder to open, and louder.
"As a diversion" Fill it with those spring loaded snakes and confetti so when it's breached they fly out. Turn a robbery into a birthday party.
someone needs to dub over Pirates of the Caribbean with the lock picking lawyer when jack sparrow is being broken out of jail.
I purchased a non-alarmed version from this product range a while back, predominantly because you hadn't featured it on your channel. Now I have to throw it away and start another Safe Search 😭
I don't know what's better - the sexual innuendo or the speed with which he opened this.
Sigh.
I'm beginning to think the best way to protect valuables is to the leave them in plain sight, surrounded by German Shepherds with suspicious minds.
I keep an old laptop out as a diversion so they don't keep looking for my real one in a burglary.
Not one but two chuckles. Even LPL can't believe how easy that is. Great work, Yale. It's so bad that it's actually funny.
I recently got a new 24” Samsonite Luggage. It comes with a TSA lock built into it. LPL has already shown how easy it is to defeat the TSA lock with either a cheap TSA key online or with a wave rake. However this luggage is even worse as it has a 3 digit combination lock. Not only is 3 digits a weak combination that can easily be guessed. It gets even worse. I figured out how to decode it without any tools just as fast as if I had the code. I found that when locked and firmly pressing in the open button while simultaneously moving the code wheels. The correct numbers will have a noticeable click, while the non correct numbers would just glide by.
It’s obviously not a security lock only prevents luggage from opening during flight.
Put a brick and a electronic tracker in this and lay it on bedroom closet floor. Perfect decoy.
Then hide your cash and jewels in a fake AC return in a wall in hallway.
At that point you can start trolling the buglers, having another safe inside.