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I’m a handyman. I don’t advertise lock picking as a service I offer due to liability issues. But occasionally a client asked me if I can pick a lock. There have been times where I said okay. This might take between 5 seconds and 30 minutes. And they turn away. And 5 seconds later the lock is picked. Then they start asking all kinds of uncomfortable questions about how they can get better locks.
When a client moves into a new house I usually include changing all the keying for each lock because you have no idea how many people have a key to that house.
When I do a straight change out of all the locks in the house I save all of them and put them in my garage workshop. When I’m cleaning my workshop and I find one of these locks I make a point of picking it.
Never once has any of this resulted in a cute woman (not a girl) being interested in me. Some people have accused me of being a wizard or a boy scout but mostly being able to pick a lock just demonstrates to people how insecure they really are for their safety.
The first thing I learned when learning to pick locks was that locks are a lie we tell ourselves and nothing we do can stop a sufficiently motivated person from getting into an area. Even if every possible measure is taken, your house is always going to be 5 min with a drill and sawzaw away from having a new door.
CGPGray mentions this in his older video about encryption. Locks are a deterrent, but a motivated person or government forces can bypass relatively easy. The reason it works is because of the personal danger to people trying to break in getting caught. He used it to contrast how digital locks need to be much stronger since they can be “picked” from across the world without any physical danger of being caught or arrested.
