This guy is living proof of what we say in IT security: If a malicious actor wants in, he'll find a way, don't doubt it. The best you can do is throw up as many roadblocks as you can to raise the skill ceiling it takes to get in and, if you're really good, alert you when he tries.
I used to believe this before but it's just not true, only the absolutely most skilled and governments have this ability. Otherwise we would have seen leaks from Elon Musk's iphone and computers (his security is a joke, doesn't even know how to hide from flight trackers or defend his family) Trump and Biden leaks from their devices, but all we got was the hunter Biden laptop after he literally physically gave it away unencrypted to a computer repair shop. These people are the most targeted in the world yet use inherently insecure devices, proprietary software, and poor infosec/cybersecurity practices.
@@neilaspin008 as Other Andrew said, ratelimit will slow Hydra down to a CRAWL. Also, account lockout after 3 failures, requiring an Admin to unlock. Have fun getting 3 attempts then waiting for the user to call IT again with "hey my account is locked out again" and that NOT raising red flags after the 5th time or so.
How does one get them in Texas? I needed some for a project once and to my surprise I couldnt buy them from pharmacies. Its incredible I can get a a liter of 95% food grade ethanol, but I cant get tiny metal funnel... im sure I can get them on the internet, I cant imagine possession of them would be illegal
@@ch4.hayabusa try hardware stores, isopropyl alcohol is also a common name for it, it shouldn't be hard to find (you might need to buy a syringe separately though)
@@ch4.hayabusa You can't buy needles in texas without a prescription, due to drog paraphernalia laws. In my country there is a law that you can't sell, buy or fabricate lockpicks for a similar reason. If they catch you with one, it is pressuposed you have them with the intent to commit a crime and you have to prove you have no criminal intent. Guilty until proven innocent. You will just have to buy online, and be ok with possibly breaking the law. Needless to say, this is not legal advice.
@@Alkis05 Honestly you could just get a small craft syringe instead. Its more about control of the alcohol than the syringe 'piercing' anything. It'll probably a bit more messy than what LPL did but you'll basically get the same effect
@@ch4.hayabusa The 95% ethanol from the bottle shop is suitable. Empty syringes and blunt needle tips are commonly used in the electronics industry. Try a soldering supply house or eBay.
There's nothing surprising about LPL opening the lock, but the confidence and effectiveness of the anti-tamper removal and reapplication was eye-opening.
It was either AvE or Dave at EEVBlog that made an anti-tamper sticker remover out of a piece of PTFE(Teflon). I made a couple and handed them out to my electronics repair friends. We've used them for years on the "warranty void if removed" stickers. At least until the law changed that those don't matter any more.
I'm sad you didn't leave the shackle unlocked. Imagine how he would've felt seeing it arrive with the shackle open but the sticker seemingly untouched.
@@Max-vr6yf I don't know about this lock specifically but a lot of places produce a series of locks all of which use the same key. They're basically just clones of each other.
Well he said he already had some of the same locks, so the sticker is a more novel and exciting thing for him (or maybe not, given that he knew what solvent would work - granted I would have started with Isopropal alcohol or sticker remover since those are what I have laying around).
@@shiruba2004he likely looked up the kind of anti-taper sticker used. Found one that looked identical and then figured out the adhesive, and then from there it's pretty easy to figure out what kinds of solvents you need to dissolve it
"This lock is expensive and I'd like to use it! :P" LPL: This seems like a good guinea pig for a new picking technique I recently made up from nothing! Viewer: F*** me.... 😐😐
@@glenmatthes8839 if you want to include that, you s should subtract the time he spent explaining the stuff in between sticker removal and starting to pick... Basically, any time spent on just explaining should not be counted towards the total, because he didn't have to do that, it was for us - the audience. I'm quite confident it'd total more than 19 seconds.
Package includes the Viewer's phone number and social security number. With the enclosed letter: "All security methods are vulnerable to something Ben. -Mr. LPL"
Imagine if instead of peeling the sticker he sent the lock back open but with the sticker intact before publishing the video. That guy would be so confused :D
well, the obvious and correct conclusion would have been that LPL bypassed the security. That he did not shim or use magnets, but simple peeled the sticker, well: eitherway.
No one's talking about how LPL narrowly avoided having his location given to some creep. It's really smart of him to open and inspect every package at the P.O. box.
Yeah creepy indeed, but let's be serious. He appeared on conferences and his name must be known. As a lawyer he is in an exposed position to the public anyway. Probably you could just look up his address in a breached database like equifax
@@Peter22334 What? Maybe Im wrong but I always made the assumption he is called "lock picking lawyer" because there is no lock he can't pick, so he can lawyer then so to speak, just a play on words and a catchy name.... Not that he is an actual lawyer that also lock picks
The LockPickingLawyer is not only a master in picking locks, he is also a master in passive-aggressive takedowns of people that doubt his capabilities. 😂👍
Should have opened the lock, put a solid washer on the shackle, and sent it back with the sticker intact. Let the guy figure that one out. Lol, good show LPL, I appreciate you.
So glad to see LPL uses his immense powers for good instead of evil BTW picking began at around 3:28 and took approximately 2 minutes 7 seconds including explanations.
You could tell by his voice that he genuinely liked the challenge. Seeing a tamper resistant label being removed and then being put back on was an extra bonus of fun. Some how you made my day. BTW I saw no cheating here. What I saw was knowledge used wisely.
I think he meant that he was showing he could have cheated off camera because he was demonstrating he could remove and replace the sticker without it falling apart but I obviously don't think he would cheat anyways
the cheating on the rules the viewer said... Because he was confident he could beat it (as he said he already had several of those locks), he didn't time it and sent it back to him anyway. He decided to use it pure because of the smart thinking, and the tamper sticker was a good chance to prove even something as common as a tamper sticker can be defeated.
It’s a good note for other online personalities who use PO Boxes to help obscure their identities. Tracking devices (I’m assuming an AirTag) are pretty cheap and pretty much disposable now. Assume anything people send could be “bugged” and act accordingly. A determined bad actor could even arrange a stake-out of a PO Box. If you have to do this, consider a remailing service that opens and thoroughly checks for anything untoward before forwarding it along, and even then take precautions.
This is so hilarious. LPL is just the embodiment of chaotic neutral. He get's asked to try to pick the lock, for security it's locked by a tamper-seal. Not only does he prove he would be able to remove the seal without any sign, he continues to destroy the seal later just to prove its normal function. Then he doesn't just pick the lock, he does under the given timelimit. Then he doesn't keep the lock, but sends it back anyway. LPL, you are a madman and we all love you for it.
@@nknumero I guess you are new to youtube then. Idk why we make these sensibles assumptions, but hey. And tbf, ive been watching his Videos for 3-4 years now, idk what your comment is trying to achieve
Anything without a security manned single entry point. He also can't defeat sound detection alarms and motion detector alarms that have backup power. To be fair, nobody can defeat those things without detection which is why the government uses all of those things for important areas/facilities.
@@snakezula anything is possible... harder to beat, yes, possible ...sure it is as you mentioned... backup power (weakness), batteries runs out, gasoline runs out, so one day the bakup drains... goodbye sensors...... just a matter of time.... by any chance you know, most sensors work in a temperature range ( most electonics does) so a temperature change can kil the sensors the back up, and everything else.... it is easy... if was locked by a human... can be unlocked
those stickers are not enforceable (at least in europe, even if those stickers are peeled warranty must be upheld until they can prove the device was tampered with.
@@tugahenrik1 Last year, I've bought a laptop which acted somewhat fishy, even though I've bought it at a respectable store and it was a well-known brand. Box was sealed too. So after I've taken it apart very carefully (to check like WTF is happening with it), I've noticed that the warranty sticker was... pre-teared, if I might say. Talk about customer service! Then I've noticed that there's a huge design error made in the cooling, so I've put everything back together and returned it.
@@TheCorshipWhy? He didn't remove the sticker from the cartoon, as it is told! He just removed the cartoon from the sticker, which he had to, to show how poor of a security measure it is😜
@@dissrapsThat's... kind of the point of locks? Get one good enough that it would be faster to just cut the lock. Any determined thief will get through your locks, the point of locks and stuff is to make it look less worth it to do so.
I fail to understand this challenge? If we are trying to pick a lock to gain entry, what will a tamper sticker do? That sticker is not keeping the door locked, and the first thing a real burglar would do is poke a hole in that sticker. So what was the point again? If he wanted him to pick the lock without using the keyhole? To prove what? Why not weld the lock shut? It will prevent him from picking it, but it would also make it impossible to use the lock, so again, pointless.
@@alphagt62 I believe it's more of a, "no one has tampered with the lock from me to you." It was in no way a challenge to LPL, but he felt the need to challenge himself and explain how warranty stickers are easily beaten.
@@daveyognaught9784 it definitely *was* a challenge to LPL lol First of all, no one is going to tamper with the lock mid-travel, that doesn't make any sense. Second, if someone did, what could they do? Open it? Reclose it? It's not like theyre gonna repin it and send it back along to LPL or something :'D The whole point of the tamper sticker was to know for sure whether LPL had gotten the lock and then practiced on it learning how to defeat it quickly, that's the entire reason people want to send him sealed packages, it's part of the challenge. Obviously he killed the challenge either way, but the sticker was definitely entirely for him.
really sorry to hear about the tracking device situation. some people have to be freaks and ruin everything for the rest of us. well, anyway, great video as always!
@@SuperMrgentleman yes you could, you could also do it with a signal scrambler. Both of which are extremely easy to manufacture and illegal so I wouldn’t recommend it. When in doubt, sledgehammer it out.
@@donlesley1873 or just throw it into a faraday cage. Potato chip bag should be enough to block gps, but there are dedicated products made to stop cellphones from working
@@novicedroner2629 they're still useful for certified devices like medical equipment, where unauthorised modification can be extremely harmful. For warranties though, absolutely, they're just something to scare people.
Tiers of lock security, from least to most secure: - Pick Proof - Pick Resistant - Duct Tape Wrapped - LPL Resistant - LPL Proof (must be welded shut and buried under 10 feet of concrete)
In LPL's voice: ... we tap here, we're still over concrete, ... we tap here, we're still over concrete, ... we tap here, and here we are, past the edge of the concrete slab. Now we find the bottom edge.....
In my (different) business I tell my customers that anything is possible given enough of my time and enough of their money. Once they discover the cost, their inquiry almost always gets rescinded.
I was thinking he should open the lock, lock something with it, put the tamper seal back, and return the lock along with the attached locked item. But putting it back to show us the seal actually does work if not defeated was nice, too.
@@tsuchan I'd think he would have gotten the lock back before the video was posted. Most creators have several videos made in advance. I don't know if LPL does that or not.
Idk. Digital video editing tools have around since at least I was a kid and I'm 45. Seriously though, his type of content is better without too much editing. Afterall he is trying to be as transparent as possible with the process. Also, printing an email takes about 10 secs. Still faster than editing in a screenshot. My dad would simply point the camera at his display to show us the email. 🤣
@@CynHicks Printing it out and then later setting it up in the video is probably way more effort than editing it in in post using a quick Windows+Shift+S (or the equivalent for other OSes). About 3 seconds to take a snippet, and 5 seconds to change windows and paste it into a video editor of choice, with at most 20 seconds for setting how long it appears, where it appears, et cetera. Printing it out also requires taking a snippet, changing windows, etc., plus the time it takes to print and then smoothly integrating the print into the video, which isn't necessarily hard, but still higher effort due to the fact that you have added an extra factor of failure in an one-shot video. Not saying editing is easy, it's not, but in this particular case it is.
@@Ze_eT I know how to use video editors, image editors and DAWs. I have experience with CAD and Unreal Editor also. Quite a bit of experience actually. I stand by what I wrote in the context I wrote it. Thanks for your opinion though.
I still think that's a pretty good lock. Took much longer than a lot of them and used a highly specialized tool. Given that LPL isnt part of my threat model, I figure it's pretty safe.
Many skilled locksmiths will know this technique and have a similar tool and some of them may be part of your threat model. But I do agree this is a pretty decent lock. Will stop the average lockpicker. Just be aware that many thieves will carry a battery powered grinder and just grind off the lock or latch anyway. So cover those over with hardened steel to make the job too much effort for them to bother. My father welded a hardened steel box that fits over and around the latch and lock on a shipping container with the bottom of the box open so you can put the key up into the lock. Makes it really hard to grind the latch.
I'm working on this model of lock right now. After only a few hours, spread over a few days, I can confidently manipulate each disc - but I cannot, as yet, feel the feedback that LPL makes seem so darn obvious and easy. I'm hoping to get the feel for it within 100 hours over the next couple of months.
@@NightShift7 No, I picked up some other hobbies. I was really really close to an open once but in the excitement I fumbled the lock and lost my grip on the tool. Very frustrating, but also good entertainment - perhaps I should get back into it.
Every year at Christmas, my grandmother insists on very carefully opening her presents because she doesn't want to tear the pretty paper. The second she breaks out the denatured alcohol, I'm switching exclusively to gift bags.
"... Nothing on two, three is binding... Let's go back to the beginning.... And that's how you-" [Universe disappears in a poof, only to come back the way it was] "Let's do that again to prove this wasn't a fluke."
I believe that that is exactly what would give him away, if it's too perfect then it limits the possible thieves to the one person who would put it back just so he could take it again to prove "it's not a fluke"...
It depends on the nature of the challenge. If goal of the challenge is *purely* to test whether you can break in, then sure. If the goal of the challenge is to test a certain skill-set or skill level, then you can absolutely apply any arbitrary rules you want (e.g.: their 3 minute rule) and disqualify violations of those rules as "cheating". Just depends on the goal of the challenge and any rules we don't know about that they established ahead of time.
"denatured alcohol" he said it in the video. it is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating to discourage its recreational consumption.
Dude, gotta love LPL. "There's this expensive lock with tamperproof sticker!", - videos is literally seven minutes long. And more than half of it was spent on talking about the lock, rather than picking it.
Please consider the prize for finding LPL in his home without an invitation. He is a heavily security minded individual who trains with firearms. For your own safety, leave the man in peace.
@Bobb Grimley Tracker is located in the bottom of a pit in the middle of the woods. No one around, no sign of activity nearby, nothing happens if you climb in and pick up the tracker chip, but it's just about the message it sends.
Really, someone who would do this is creepy. Very much BEYOND using clues to determine locations (like folks do on the geography-guessing websites). Where I live, "criminal invasion of privacy is a misdemeanor"--I don't know if sending someone a CONCEALED TRACKER technically fits the definition, but it certainly seems extreme...
@@kenc2257 I think that he's probably quite used to this, unfortunately. As he is involved in legal work, he likely has an entire security routine right in the Post Office to ensure his own safety at home.
It actually seems like a rather good lock, as our LPL used a 'special' of a tool that not too many actual burglars would have ina pocket, or, the finesse to say "that's a false gate...that's a true gate..." Total Respect for knowledge, experience, and subtlety!
Not really much of a special tool when you can buy similar ones on ebay/aliexpress, etc... It's slightly longer to tension on the second pin instead of the first but I doubt that makes too much of a difference
@@DrakeOola if you can't tension off the first disc then it accounts for literally the entire pick-ability of the lock. Also, most people trying to break into your shit aren't going to come prepared with that tool in the first place, especially a niche variant of an already niche tool.
@@DrakeOola Most of the time if a burglar or thief really wants your stuff, they'll just break the lock or remove the hardware the lock goes into. Thieves are lazy and almost never try picking. Why bother picking when an angle grinder is faster and easier.
@@GOTHICforLIFE1 that's true, the only time I can imagine a thief using picking is when they want to keep a low profile and can't use destructive attacks. For almost everything else though, much easier and faster to just break in.
@@thorham1346 some guy added a headphone jack to the first iphone model that removed them. Why should that void his warranty for other non related damage?
@@MegaLokopo Because you're still modifying the device. If you have problems, Apple can't be sure if you caused them or they did... and why should they repair your mess up? I also don't get people's fascination with the headphone jack. Dead tech is dead.
@@SnowyRVulpix Innocent until proven guilty. If they can prove I broke it, then they shouldn't have to repair it, if they can't prove I broke it and I paid for a warranty or am still within the free warranty then they should repair it. Apple also has a history of releasing products with major flaws in every unit they produced and not fixing the mechanism they made with a major design flaw for customers who paid for the warranty because they opened up the device, for a completely unrelated reason. The audio quality you can get from a headphone jack is far higher than you can get wirelessly. The problem with using a dongle is the added complexity of different standards and the different dac locations in different brands cables. aux cables are universal assuming the connector fits.
It would be a flex, 'to the sender' but the viewers could simply say that it was not likely working after that. He avoided flexing to curb the ugly nay sayers.😉
@@constantin2449 Some people might argue that the rubbing alcohol damaged the adhesive and made it no longer stick to the lock properly after he reapplied it. You and I know that isn't what happens but other people don't have that nugget of knowledge to work with.
I started picking locks a couple years ago after watching a couple of your videos, you are the GOAT at picking locks and I have learned alot from your videos, thanks man.
@@leeuwengames315 Eh, I don't mind having my own fingerprints on my own duck-taped door. It'd still reduce wear-and-tear on the edges of the duck tape.
@@1971merlin I'm obligated to point out that "duck tape" (made from cotton duck cloth with a rubber/plastic/polyethylene coating) and "duct tape" (made from adhesive metal foil) are _both_ real things, and are two completely different kinds of tape. Duck tape tends to disintegrate over time when applied to ducts, which is why duct tape should be used _on ducts_ instead. Duck tape is more water-resistant, so it's better suited for doors (and coincidentally, ducks) than duct tape. ...also, there is duck tape which _is_ designed for use on ducts (it handles high and low temperatures better than standard duck tape), so "duck duct tape" also exists.
A true lawyer Derives extreme fun and satisfaction by finding ways to bend the rules and demonstrate how a bit of creative interpretation can get you very far!
@@Lumens1 I'll try. I don't know if the comment will be deleted, so I'll post it in the next comment. If you don't see it, that means it has been automatically deleted.
Just google something like "does removing a security sticker void your warranty": and find something like this: Most consumers don't know that these stickers are actually illegal-and that's because manufacturers don't want you to. Under the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Feds mandated that you can open your electronics without voiding the warranty, regardless of what the language of your warranty says. Oct 11, 2018
LPL during off hours: "I pick locks and post the videos on youtube!" LPL during work hours: Infiltrating a Level 1 secure facility without a trace under code name nutterbutters
That could have been mistaken as having different lock sent back to you. Having the sticker on and having the same lock open without any explanation would have been the best solution.
How scared must that guy who sent him a tracking device be now! LPL knows you tried some shady shit! You still don't know where he is, but I'm sure, given everything we've seen him do, he will find you! And now you wait for the man who can bypass any lock, owns guns and is a LAWYER to make his next move! Someone should make a suspense/thriller movie about what this guy must be thinking lmfaooooo
@@JS-rv3et I was assuming he used a fake return address if he included one at all. It's LPL though... if he REALLY wanted to, I think he could find him was my point 😉
And LPL spoke at a cybersecurity conference. Physical locks are not the only security under his scrutiny. I wouldn't want to be the mad bastard that'd try this shit on LPL. Solid 10/10 yikes from me, dawg.
What impressed me the most is how LPL moved that sticker around on those tweezers. Never let it drop. LPL has totally destroyed my belief in locking things up. "Locks only keep honest people out." From now on I am just going to use epoxy.
That lock looked pretty good. Took 90 seconds for a highly skilled locksmith to open using a specialized tool. A solid lock will keep a petty criminal out, and the government will just use a battering ram anyway
I love your whole video setting. You have a very shiny metal plate to work on and still manage to light the whole scene evenly without too bright reflexions. Furthermore you place the camera directly above your work space and manage to do tricky fine work without casting shadows on what you are doing and without blocking the view or hitting the camera. The camera is always well focused. Apart from your skills at lock picking, I thought that worth mentioning.
Today I have learned more about tamper seals than locks and that's gonna be extremely helpful. Thanks LPL! (For the record, it's not like I don't need to know about locks, just I already know loads about then from every other video)
Hands down the most epic LPL video of all time. Defeated the sticker, defeated the lock, crushed the time trial, flexed his own custom made picking tool + method and remained calm and monotone the entire time.
What a dick move, sending a tracker to someone who just values privacy. Not sure about US law, but given this person was dumb enough to try to invade the privacy of an actual lawyer, I hope there's grounds on which to sue that person.
While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble. I'm not an US lawyer, but I'm pretty sure if you sue someone for something like this the trail would be public. You would also have to disclose who you are and, in my country at least, that also entails your address and ID number. All in all, it might be counter productive. Again, I'm not familiar with procedural law in the US, but those are some common formalities in European law systems.
It's a dick move but not one without reason. LPL is/was a professional security expert and is now selling lock picking equipment and showing people how to easily bypass security. Professionally speaking, what LPL is doing is taboo; he could very easily be blackballed from the security industry, or sued, if someone found out who LPL is. There might be a bounty on his identity.
@@lonercs I don't think it's taboo actually. Most would-be thieves would have a very hard time doing what he knows how to do it. It takes a specific skillset and hours upon hours of practice to break anything higher-grade than a Master lock. >>;
Me the ALPHA M*LE of this comment section and me command RESPECT. Right now me telling you to NOT observe any of me nice cool sweet videos. Instead just look at me awesome good powerful thumbnails. Thank you, dear zar
I mean LPL failed the 3 minutes (He started challenge at 2:13 and finished at 5:34, 3 minutes and 21 seconds) so he would have received the lock anyways and LPL would still have made a video about it.
@@bloodred255 yeah, it depends if you consider the sticker removal part of the lockpicking process or not. Either way he probably would have done it under three minutes if he didn't stop to tell us what he was doing.
Many commenters seem to not get the point of the anti tamper seal. It was put on by Ben to ensure that LPL picks the lock on screen the first time as it was meant as a challenge lock.
Not only picked it and defeated the seal but at the same time, and within time frame, provided a complete guide with explanation. This must be horrifying for engineers wokring years on perfecting these techniques LOL. Fascinating!
21. Who knows a little bit of chemistry. It's pretty easy to figure out how to do what LPL just did, The trick is doing it without screwing up because if you make any mistakes then you're f*****
In my head, LPL is a master thief who steals priceless paintings, puts them in other museums where they wouldn't expect the painting to be, and then disappears without a trace.
LPL said he already owns that lock. I get why he'd take it as an insult to suggest he can only do it if he gets time with the lock. His skills come from the fact that he's spent time with all of these locks. It's not a magic power, he's practiced, and suggesting he needs practice as a way to discredit what's gained with practice is worthy of getting a mic dropped on your head.
I've been picking locks since I was a kid. Ever since I came online, some 25y ago, I kept to one idea, Nothing is private. No matter where you put a door, digital or physical, it can be opened by the wrong people. Prob the only way to keep most people out, is to hide that there is in fact a door present
LPL: "I hope you had as much fun as I did." Me: "I can assure you sir, you had way more fun than I did" as I'm throwing out every lock I've ever bought.
Just because LPL can pick something in under a minute doesn't mean your locks are worthless. I would consider LPL a Olympic level competitor. Most Olympians aren't going to be breaking into your garage. But I'm glad he is showing just how crappy most stuff is.
Go watch the video where he raids BosianBill's naughty bucket. There are plenty of locks there that even he says " nope. can't do it ".. If that doesn't convince you, just get Abloy Protec 2 locks lol
It's actually widely done with electronic equipment that hackers wish to mess with. I know someone who had a variety of anti-tamper sticker clones, so he could just cut it off if he happened to have a match.
On a surface like that? So damn easy. There are ways to make it harder, but then you have to adjust your product design to your seal design. But in the end, just as with locks, this security feature can always be beaten.
I was. If you have some time, you don't even need the syringe and scalpel. Just keep it wet with vodka for a while. From what I've heard, one of the best tamper-evident methods is something like glitter nail polish and a camera. There's no way to remove it intact, as any solvent would make it flow, and you're not going to replicate the same pattern.
Hey, LPL did have to bring an addition tool though. And a tool full of stuff that he would need to refill. So they do make it less likely that your stuff got tampered.
Removing antitamper: 1 minute Locking pick: 1,5 minutes. The rest was explaining, so he actually removed the antitamper, picked the lock, and repositioned the antitamper, all within the allotted 3 minutes. I just.... why do locks exist again?
Yeah, if no one is around, thief not gonna bother lock picking it, just brute force. If someone is around they will notice the thief and hopefully record and report them. Those tools are useful for 'cat burglars' if they to it 'proffesionally' and for situation no one is around and no camera will record them
It would be pretty cruel because a turtle's shell is basically fused with it's spine and ribs, so yeah, you'd be removing it's entire spine and ribs. I don't think the turtle would appreciate that.
wow this is the best advice you could give to a criminal not only did you teach how to beat the lock you also taught how to get past the sticker too bad it's useful for thieves guess that promotes lawyers
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Defeating the lock was not enough, he had to defeat the sticker too. What a beast.
He cheated he used drugs to increase his lock picking skill temporarily !
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 PEDs even.. Picking Enhancing Drugs.
Classic showoff.
That sticker was better than most of the locks he picks.
@@buckiesmalls *clutches pearls* will no one think of the children!
lol
"Hopefully we gave this enough time to dry"
Such a subtle flex
I was looking for this comment, I noticed that too 😂😂
Ooh, I missed that. Good one.
Oh yeahh!!! haha I didn't notice that
Why was it a subtle flex? I didn’t get the reference, if someone can explain please ty
@@NP-gb5su "I opened that lock so fast, I bet this shit still wet"
putting the anti tamper seal back on is honestly such a flex
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no no, putting it back on and then tearing it off anyway was the flex
@@WeebJail "heres what you'd if you were a FOOL"
yeah i thought it might look off once he put it back... but it looked alright no evidence of tamper
Heavy flex :3
This guy is living proof of what we say in IT security: If a malicious actor wants in, he'll find a way, don't doubt it. The best you can do is throw up as many roadblocks as you can to raise the skill ceiling it takes to get in and, if you're really good, alert you when he tries.
Just brute force it with Hydra!!
I used to believe this before but it's just not true, only the absolutely most skilled and governments have this ability. Otherwise we would have seen leaks from Elon Musk's iphone and computers (his security is a joke, doesn't even know how to hide from flight trackers or defend his family) Trump and Biden leaks from their devices, but all we got was the hunter Biden laptop after he literally physically gave it away unencrypted to a computer repair shop. These people are the most targeted in the world yet use inherently insecure devices, proprietary software, and poor infosec/cybersecurity practices.
try getting into the system i just built for my brother, we would get alerted at any time!
@@neilaspin008 ratelimit
@@neilaspin008 as Other Andrew said, ratelimit will slow Hydra down to a CRAWL. Also, account lockout after 3 failures, requiring an Admin to unlock. Have fun getting 3 attempts then waiting for the user to call IT again with "hey my account is locked out again" and that NOT raising red flags after the 5th time or so.
The syringe says "For single use" on it. Ironically, the sticker doesn't.
How does one get them in Texas? I needed some for a project once and to my surprise I couldnt buy them from pharmacies. Its incredible I can get a a liter of 95% food grade ethanol, but I cant get tiny metal funnel... im sure I can get them on the internet, I cant imagine possession of them would be illegal
@@ch4.hayabusa try hardware stores, isopropyl alcohol is also a common name for it, it shouldn't be hard to find (you might need to buy a syringe separately though)
@@ch4.hayabusa You can't buy needles in texas without a prescription, due to drog paraphernalia laws. In my country there is a law that you can't sell, buy or fabricate lockpicks for a similar reason. If they catch you with one, it is pressuposed you have them with the intent to commit a crime and you have to prove you have no criminal intent. Guilty until proven innocent.
You will just have to buy online, and be ok with possibly breaking the law.
Needless to say, this is not legal advice.
@@Alkis05 Honestly you could just get a small craft syringe instead. Its more about control of the alcohol than the syringe 'piercing' anything. It'll probably a bit more messy than what LPL did but you'll basically get the same effect
@@ch4.hayabusa The 95% ethanol from the bottle shop is suitable. Empty syringes and blunt needle tips are commonly used in the electronics industry. Try a soldering supply house or eBay.
Postman's face when LPL blasts every package with the mini EMP right after he receives them.
“Sir, do you want to sent this vintage microwave somewhere? Why are you plugging it in?”
Pocket ECM deployed.
@@tighlia3375 LOL
I microwaved my old passport and the chip in it blew up in about 1 second. Lol
@@NeoMK I microwave my old credit cards.
There's nothing surprising about LPL opening the lock, but the confidence and effectiveness of the anti-tamper removal and reapplication was eye-opening.
It was either AvE or Dave at EEVBlog that made an anti-tamper sticker remover out of a piece of PTFE(Teflon). I made a couple and handed them out to my electronics repair friends. We've used them for years on the "warranty void if removed" stickers. At least until the law changed that those don't matter any more.
@@jameslmorehead The law on those never changed, FTC just started pointing out that the companies are violating it and started enforcing it.
nothing is safe when you have competent people around targeting your stuff
Tamper proof does not exist for this man
This is usual for pc tech/hardware that has warranty void stickers etc. Not a unknown thing
What's crazy, I could hear in his voice lockpickinglawyer was concentrating harder taking the sticker off than he does actually picking locks
So that's actually a thing. When I'm picking locks they usually fall open within a few seconds of someone distracting me.
I'm thinking it's because he's not as practiced at destickering ; )
There's also no retries if he fumbles taking it off.
@@untemperance 😂
A sticker is more fickle and he can't revert the fail state once it breaks apart.
LPL - *returns lock*
Ben - "Well, at least my anti-tamper sticker worked as expected"
Ben - *watches video*
Ben - Well damn...
Is your pfp an OC?
He should send the locker opened with the sticker on it, and release the video just after the guy receive it LOL
@@bensoncheung2801 nah, is from a game called Blazblue.
@@RickRodGaming Thanks, character name?
@@bensoncheung2801 Rachel Alucard
I'm sad you didn't leave the shackle unlocked. Imagine how he would've felt seeing it arrive with the shackle open but the sticker seemingly untouched.
@@ayz4299 well he has the Keys so he would probably notice😂
@@Max-vr6yf I don't know about this lock specifically but a lot of places produce a series of locks all of which use the same key. They're basically just clones of each other.
@@jasonoverman9679 So true, I've had the same house key work in the locks of three different places that I've lived.
@@Max-vr6yf 😂👍
@@jasonoverman9679 It's an expensive lock not a $2 one 😂
Any lock that takes LPL more than 15 seconds AND a specialized picking tool is a good lock.
If a lock says : LPL - 1 minute.. I'm buying it. That's a guarantee.
@@PDeRop if it takes him a minute, the average theif won't bother
Yes yes have heard this a million times
@@fahad_hassan_92 ok
Good luck on that good lock.
It was fun seeing him get even more excited about defeating an anti-tamper sticker than he was about defeating the expensive lock.
Well he said he already had some of the same locks, so the sticker is a more novel and exciting thing for him (or maybe not, given that he knew what solvent would work - granted I would have started with Isopropal alcohol or sticker remover since those are what I have laying around).
@@shiruba2004he likely looked up the kind of anti-taper sticker used. Found one that looked identical and then figured out the adhesive, and then from there it's pretty easy to figure out what kinds of solvents you need to dissolve it
@@the_undeadhe’s also done it before
"This lock is expensive and I'd like to use it! :P"
LPL: This seems like a good guinea pig for a new picking technique I recently made up from nothing!
Viewer: F*** me.... 😐😐
For timing: He inserted the pick at 4:02 and the signature "we got this open" at 5:33. About 90 seconds.
He started applying the solvent at 2:14. So combined removal of the sticker and picking the lock was 3:19. Not quite under three minutes, but damn!
@@glenmatthes8839 if you want to include that, you s should subtract the time he spent explaining the stuff in between sticker removal and starting to pick... Basically, any time spent on just explaining should not be counted towards the total, because he didn't have to do that, it was for us - the audience. I'm quite confident it'd total more than 19 seconds.
So you're saying he could have picked it, and then just to show you that it wasn't a fluke...
The explanation started 3:33 and last for 30 seconds.
@@andrems Based on that, then the actual non-explanatory time spent on sticker removal and lock picking was 2:49.
Viewer: "Hey, I want you to defeat this lock"
LPL: "How about I show you the deficits on all forms of security you included?"
Simply amazing!
Lol
Part II: edits letter for greater readability.
Viewer: "WIIIITCH! HE'S A WITCH!!!"
@@alantonix213Yes but how do you know he's a witch? Will you build a bridge out of crappy locks?
Package includes the Viewer's phone number and social security number. With the enclosed letter:
"All security methods are vulnerable to something Ben.
-Mr. LPL"
Imagine if instead of peeling the sticker he sent the lock back open but with the sticker intact before publishing the video. That guy would be so confused :D
yeah like: "WTF?! LPL used a Jedi mind trick to open the lock!?!" O_o
That’s a good idea lol would of been funny
"did... Did he shim this? Did I pay top dollar for a knock off?!"
well, the obvious and correct conclusion would have been that LPL bypassed the security. That he did not shim or use magnets, but simple peeled the sticker, well: eitherway.
Would you be able to tell the difference between that and just putting a second sticker over the remains of the first one?
Guy: I put a tamper resistant sticker on
LPL: And immediately I started to tamper
resistant for a reason.
Thats disgusting that someone tried to track you. Good on you for catching it!
People are scum
That is really disrespectful of them
Happens all the time to superheroes like LPL.
Who will design him a uniform?
Agreed.
Must be one of the salty manufacturers.
No one's talking about how LPL narrowly avoided having his location given to some creep. It's really smart of him to open and inspect every package at the P.O. box.
Indeed, but creeps tend to find a way. I'm just glad that LPL carries a gun on him.
Yeah creepy indeed, but let's be serious. He appeared on conferences and his name must be known. As a lawyer he is in an exposed position to the public anyway. Probably you could just look up his address in a breached database like equifax
@@Peter22334 What? Maybe Im wrong but I always made the assumption he is called "lock picking lawyer" because there is no lock he can't pick, so he can lawyer then so to speak, just a play on words and a catchy name.... Not that he is an actual lawyer that also lock picks
@@NoNameEst1992 Lol. I think he is a real lawyer.
@@NoNameEst1992 he's an actual lawyer in the DC area
Ben: Please pick this lock!
LPL: *picks the sticker instead*
Ben: Keep it if you pick it!
LPL: *sends it back anyway*
He just won't listen :v
He can’t keep getting away with this!
@@cbeast2578 And yet he probably will
He is out of control!! :-D
LPL is just a very distinguished Gentleman the "old school-Sir" ones. He Wracks everything with style and class XD
It's not like they can exactly lock him up.
A lock that keeps LPL out for 2 minutes is a pretty good lock, will definitely use.
Ben: "I put a tamper resistant sticker on the lock"
LPL: "And I took that personally"
More like, "No you haven't!"
What?
"Anyway I started tampering"
@@---Michael---Empress be like
Anyone know what solvent he was using ??
The LockPickingLawyer is not only a master in picking locks, he is also a master in passive-aggressive takedowns of people that doubt his capabilities. 😂👍
Nah, he is just making fun jokes. One of the coolest channels with great skills og good fun.
he cracks jokes and ridicules his rivals like the chad he is. the community is such a group of cool people
He picks his way into our hearts
That's not what passive aggression means. He's just being cool.
I love he doesn't seem to know "stan" culture, and thought of the Eminem song.
Should have opened the lock, put a solid washer on the shackle, and sent it back with the sticker intact. Let the guy figure that one out. Lol, good show LPL, I appreciate you.
He has the keys
@@justcallmefred4762 I meant let him figure out how LPL got the washer on a lock with a tamper seal on it
@@newtybot Well, there's no reason at all to be embarrassed about making a mistake. We all do it.
@@newtybot saying that you don't is a mistake in itself because no one will believe you
@@newtybot You don't make mistakes. Yet fail to use capitalization, full sentence structure, or punctuation. How embarrassing for you.
So glad to see LPL uses his immense powers for good instead of evil
BTW picking began at around 3:28 and took approximately 2 minutes 7 seconds including explanations.
More like 1min30 from 4:02 to 5:32
Hell yeah did it under 3 minutes sticker included -and- he took 30 seconds showing and explaining his tool and method
Anyone know what solvent he was using ??
He started with solvent at 2:13 and completed the pick at 5:39. So he took slightly longer than 3 minutes
@@niffrig you really count the sticker as a part of the "lock"? And you really think it'd take that long to remove the sticker normally?
“Only the LPL could have have made it through that lock. But look, he didn’t even try, the sticker is still in place.”
LPL: 🤫🤗
The lock scared itself open.
@@miquelfire very few people know that LPL is the TH-cam name of Chuck Norris.
Should have closed it around a hardened steel ring with his name on it.
@@Taneth that wouldve been hilarious, lock it back in place with something in the lock and put the sticker perfectly back where it was
@@fredbecker607 No he is not chuck norris.
Just imagine the look on Ben's face if LPL would've sent the picked lock back with the sticker on it...
I kinda thought that was where this was going.
@@PDeRop Me too.
I would've liked him to send it back, sticker reapplied, lock left open...
Tah dahhhh
Yea, that would've been a big dick move.
"did i forgot to lock it?" ben said to himself.
Ben: The time to beat is 3 minutes.
LPL: Imma do it in 2 minutes, including 30 seconds to describe the features of the tool I'm using.
"Let me show you it's features"
@@dcko1979 Ah yes, Joerg.
@@dcko1979 "Let’s get this out on the tray. Nice!"
@@RonJeremy514 Nice hiss out of 4
@@dcko1979 You guys have to be referring to steve the mre guy, I've watched a few videos and I remember he loves a good hiss
He’s not only a locksmith he’s also a surgeon
and a lawyer
bros got the keys to the heart, and its a scalpel
You could tell by his voice that he genuinely liked the challenge. Seeing a tamper resistant label being removed and then being put back on was an extra bonus of fun. Some how you made my day. BTW I saw no cheating here. What I saw was knowledge used wisely.
Not cheating, just bending the rules
I think he meant that he was showing he could have cheated off camera because he was demonstrating he could remove and replace the sticker without it falling apart but I obviously don't think he would cheat anyways
the cheating on the rules the viewer said... Because he was confident he could beat it (as he said he already had several of those locks), he didn't time it and sent it back to him anyway. He decided to use it pure because of the smart thinking, and the tamper sticker was a good chance to prove even something as common as a tamper sticker can be defeated.
Well, I think the cheating part implies that this could have been second try.
Yup, props to Ben
I'm not sure what motivates a Creeper to try to send you a tracking device. For me, it is enough to know you don't live in my neighborhood.
You see, that's a problem for me though, because his PO box is in my local post office. He's close.
@@emmarabenhorst3106 oO one day you might wake up to... "i've got a click on 3, 4 is binding...and we're in" :D
What if some said, "MasterLock CEO"?😆
It’s a good note for other online personalities who use PO Boxes to help obscure their identities. Tracking devices (I’m assuming an AirTag) are pretty cheap and pretty much disposable now. Assume anything people send could be “bugged” and act accordingly. A determined bad actor could even arrange a stake-out of a PO Box. If you have to do this, consider a remailing service that opens and thoroughly checks for anything untoward before forwarding it along, and even then take precautions.
A lil spit, line it up.. aaaaandd we're in
This is so hilarious. LPL is just the embodiment of chaotic neutral.
He get's asked to try to pick the lock, for security it's locked by a tamper-seal.
Not only does he prove he would be able to remove the seal without any sign, he continues to destroy the seal later just to prove its normal function.
Then he doesn't just pick the lock, he does under the given timelimit.
Then he doesn't keep the lock, but sends it back anyway.
LPL, you are a madman and we all love you for it.
Not only does he pick the lock, he chooses to use a technique he’s JUST LEARNING, instead of his normal method.
i gues youre new to his channel
@@nknumero I guess you are new to youtube then. Idk why we make these sensibles assumptions, but hey.
And tbf, ive been watching his Videos for 3-4 years now, idk what your comment is trying to achieve
@@rysirion9262 its not the first lock he sends back , okay ? tell me more how new i am.
Bruh 💀💀💀
The amount of knowledge lpl has is honestly astounding and genuinely terrifying as I feel like this man can get into anywhere
Anything without a security manned single entry point. He also can't defeat sound detection alarms and motion detector alarms that have backup power. To be fair, nobody can defeat those things without detection which is why the government uses all of those things for important areas/facilities.
@@snakezulaI've seen mission impossible. Anything is possible.
@@snakezula anything is possible... harder to beat, yes, possible ...sure it is as you mentioned... backup power (weakness), batteries runs out, gasoline runs out, so one day the bakup drains... goodbye sensors...... just a matter of time.... by any chance you know, most sensors work in a temperature range ( most electonics does) so a temperature change can kil the sensors the back up, and everything else.... it is easy... if was locked by a human... can be unlocked
Every tamper seal: “Warranty Void If Removed”
LPL: *Hold my denatured alcohol* 😂
LMAO!
those stickers are not enforceable (at least in europe, even if those stickers are peeled warranty must be upheld until they can prove the device was tampered with.
OH good one.
@@unknownlycan illegal? wtf
@@tugahenrik1 Last year, I've bought a laptop which acted somewhat fishy, even though I've bought it at a respectable store and it was a well-known brand. Box was sealed too. So after I've taken it apart very carefully (to check like WTF is happening with it), I've noticed that the warranty sticker was... pre-teared, if I might say. Talk about customer service!
Then I've noticed that there's a huge design error made in the cooling, so I've put everything back together and returned it.
The disgruntled lock companies are trying to find LPL to stomp him out. XD
lmao
Masterlock Mafia
@@samproud2165 mafialock
He has guns doe. A firefight for the ahes
@@samproud2165 MasterMob
Every electronics sticker: "Warranty voided if removed"
LPL: "Hold my beer"
every normal lawyer as well: hold my beer.
@@TheCorshipWhy? He didn't remove the sticker from the cartoon, as it is told! He just removed the cartoon from the sticker, which he had to, to show how poor of a security measure it is😜
Hold my alcohol siringe!
@@jonnylolo9321 apparently you don't know that companies can't void the warranty with some stupid stickers
@@TheCorship They can, they just can't make it shorter than declared by law
If that's the pick you need for this lock, I'm impressed. Very technical design. No average thief would defeat this lock.
No average thief picks locks they cut them? Lol?
@@dissrapsThat's... kind of the point of locks? Get one good enough that it would be faster to just cut the lock. Any determined thief will get through your locks, the point of locks and stuff is to make it look less worth it to do so.
Ben: "I put an anti-tamper sticker over the keyhole."
LPL: "Challenge accepted."
Yes I also watched the video
I fail to understand this challenge? If we are trying to pick a lock to gain entry, what will a tamper sticker do? That sticker is not keeping the door locked, and the first thing a real burglar would do is poke a hole in that sticker. So what was the point again? If he wanted him to pick the lock without using the keyhole? To prove what? Why not weld the lock shut? It will prevent him from picking it, but it would also make it impossible to use the lock, so again, pointless.
@@alphagt62 I believe it's more of a, "no one has tampered with the lock from me to you." It was in no way a challenge to LPL, but he felt the need to challenge himself and explain how warranty stickers are easily beaten.
@@alphagt62 Picking a lock for the first time usually takes more time.
The challenge was to beat the time without picking it off camera first
@@daveyognaught9784 it definitely *was* a challenge to LPL lol First of all, no one is going to tamper with the lock mid-travel, that doesn't make any sense. Second, if someone did, what could they do? Open it? Reclose it? It's not like theyre gonna repin it and send it back along to LPL or something :'D The whole point of the tamper sticker was to know for sure whether LPL had gotten the lock and then practiced on it learning how to defeat it quickly, that's the entire reason people want to send him sealed packages, it's part of the challenge. Obviously he killed the challenge either way, but the sticker was definitely entirely for him.
Props to Ben, that was a great idea with the sticker and props to LPL for being entertaining and returning the lock to Ben.
And props to you for acknowledging the props everyone deserves!
@@Blinkubus propellers for everybody!!
@@Blinkubus and props to you for giving props to the commenter who gave props to Ben and LPL.
really sorry to hear about the tracking device situation. some people have to be freaks and ruin everything for the rest of us. well, anyway, great video as always!
Can you kill those with a small emp device?
@@SuperMrgentleman yes you could, you could also do it with a signal scrambler. Both of which are extremely easy to manufacture and illegal so I wouldn’t recommend it. When in doubt, sledgehammer it out.
@@donlesley1873 or just throw it into a faraday cage. Potato chip bag should be enough to block gps, but there are dedicated products made to stop cellphones from working
@@MikrySoft if it's like a airtag, then it's not enough to block gps, since it doesn't use gps anyway.
Was this a video? Is there a number I can find
I nearly died laughing at this. You have become far too powerful.
“We use these stickers at work to cover assembly screws on hardware,” LPL then teaches the world how to easily bypass the stickers. 🤣
Good!
Those stickers can't be used to invalidate a warranty claim in the US anyway thanks to the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, so it only acts as a deterrent.
Hair dryer or, better, a precision heat gun is better since some stickers are paper based, applying any solvent may damage it.
@@novicedroner2629 they're still useful for certified devices like medical equipment, where unauthorised modification can be extremely harmful. For warranties though, absolutely, they're just something to scare people.
Disabling a tamper seal still needs specialized tools, and is conspicuous as heck if you are caught with a syringe full of alcohol
Tiers of lock security, from least to most secure:
- Pick Proof
- Pick Resistant
- Duct Tape Wrapped
- LPL Resistant
- LPL Proof (must be welded shut and buried under 10 feet of concrete)
Nah I'm pretty sure welding it shut would do the trick...unless he gets the bolt cutters and angle grinders
In LPL's voice: ... we tap here, we're still over concrete, ... we tap here, we're still over concrete, ... we tap here, and here we are, past the edge of the concrete slab. Now we find the bottom edge.....
Only way to make it LPL Proof is to drop it into Mount Doom... Or make it so that it shows everyone his face....
Wouldn't it be
Pick Resistant
Then
Pick Proof
How to male LPL resistant locks.
_-Shoot him._
One thing I've learned from LPL is with the right tools and know how, there are very few tasks that are actually impossible.
And it the tool is not there, he will make it.
In my (different) business I tell my customers that anything is possible given enough of my time and enough of their money. Once they discover the cost, their inquiry almost always gets rescinded.
If a human invented it, a human can defeat it, lol.
Everything is hackable. It's just a matter of how, and how long.
No matter how good a design is, the attacker has the advantage because the designer is no longer present.
The last part where he tore the tamper proof seal is truly masterclass. 👏
It would have been a real mystery for Ben if LPL had sent the lock back opened and with the sticker in place.
I was thinking he should open the lock, lock something with it, put the tamper seal back, and return the lock along with the attached locked item. But putting it back to show us the seal actually does work if not defeated was nice, too.
Perhaps not when he watched the video.
@@tsuchan he would obviously delay the release of the video a few weeks
@@tsuchan
I'd think he would have gotten the lock back before the video was posted. Most creators have several videos made in advance. I don't know if LPL does that or not.
No mystery. I think Ben expected that LPL would defeat the sticker even before sending the lock.
God I love how he prints out emails to physically show them on camera 😂. LPL is like everyone’s dad
Idk. Digital video editing tools have around since at least I was a kid and I'm 45.
Seriously though, his type of content is better without too much editing. Afterall he is trying to be as transparent as possible with the process. Also, printing an email takes about 10 secs. Still faster than editing in a screenshot.
My dad would simply point the camera at his display to show us the email. 🤣
@@CynHicks Printing it out and then later setting it up in the video is probably way more effort than editing it in in post using a quick Windows+Shift+S (or the equivalent for other OSes). About 3 seconds to take a snippet, and 5 seconds to change windows and paste it into a video editor of choice, with at most 20 seconds for setting how long it appears, where it appears, et cetera. Printing it out also requires taking a snippet, changing windows, etc., plus the time it takes to print and then smoothly integrating the print into the video, which isn't necessarily hard, but still higher effort due to the fact that you have added an extra factor of failure in an one-shot video. Not saying editing is easy, it's not, but in this particular case it is.
@@Ze_eT autism
Not my dad. He would have printed out in ALL CAPS.
@@Ze_eT I know how to use video editors, image editors and DAWs. I have experience with CAD and Unreal Editor also. Quite a bit of experience actually. I stand by what I wrote in the context I wrote it. Thanks for your opinion though.
I still think that's a pretty good lock. Took much longer than a lot of them and used a highly specialized tool. Given that LPL isnt part of my threat model, I figure it's pretty safe.
it just took much longer because of the sticker
You never know when a wild LPL might attack
@@Bummsnickl so should I consider stickers?
Many skilled locksmiths will know this technique and have a similar tool and some of them may be part of your threat model. But I do agree this is a pretty decent lock. Will stop the average lockpicker. Just be aware that many thieves will carry a battery powered grinder and just grind off the lock or latch anyway. So cover those over with hardened steel to make the job too much effort for them to bother.
My father welded a hardened steel box that fits over and around the latch and lock on a shipping container with the bottom of the box open so you can put the key up into the lock. Makes it really hard to grind the latch.
@@heyhoe168 yes. Many stickers.
I'm working on this model of lock right now. After only a few hours, spread over a few days, I can confidently manipulate each disc - but I cannot, as yet, feel the feedback that LPL makes seem so darn obvious and easy. I'm hoping to get the feel for it within 100 hours over the next couple of months.
Did you ever get it?
@@NightShift7 No, I picked up some other hobbies. I was really really close to an open once but in the excitement I fumbled the lock and lost my grip on the tool. Very frustrating, but also good entertainment - perhaps I should get back into it.
Every year at Christmas, my grandmother insists on very carefully opening her presents because she doesn't want to tear the pretty paper. The second she breaks out the denatured alcohol, I'm switching exclusively to gift bags.
Lol
Get gift boxes instead lol then she can use the pretty boxes for storage
I might be mean but I would start using decorative heat shrink.
I wouldn't even know how to start on that.
This man could crack the universe in a weekend if he was bored enough
Bold of you to assume he did not.
@@Bigal3031 he picked it, pulled it apart and put it back together before anyone knew what happened.
We need to keep sending him locks so he doesnt become bored and get too powerful
@@adityasahu2103 under 3 minutes
"... Nothing on two, three is binding... Let's go back to the beginning.... And that's how you-"
[Universe disappears in a poof, only to come back the way it was]
"Let's do that again to prove this wasn't a fluke."
If LPL ever decided to be evil, no one of his victims will ever know how their stuff got stolen.
I believe that that is exactly what would give him away, if it's too perfect then it limits the possible thieves to the one person who would put it back just so he could take it again to prove "it's not a fluke"...
How do you know he isn't secretly a master thief?
@@mistere6299 You're right, the stuff mysteriously reappearing for then to be stolen a second time would be the giveaway.
No, he'll steal it, use it, then return it to its rightful place.
And depending on how long it would take, nobody would even know.
Im pretty sure he's the gray fox.
No cheating, there is no cheating when it comes to stealing/breaking in to things. You break into it, you win.
It depends on the nature of the challenge. If goal of the challenge is *purely* to test whether you can break in, then sure. If the goal of the challenge is to test a certain skill-set or skill level, then you can absolutely apply any arbitrary rules you want (e.g.: their 3 minute rule) and disqualify violations of those rules as "cheating". Just depends on the goal of the challenge and any rules we don't know about that they established ahead of time.
the only thing i would consider "cheating" per se would be using a wrench.
this man is so good he even picks stickers... i am convinced nothing is safe
I'm going to send him a plastic drinking straw wrapped in paper next.
On the contrary, everything is a safe to the man, it's just he has all the combinations
also, in his hands, nothing is A safe
Love that LPL picks the lock fast enough that it's a concern that it hasn't been long enough for the solvent to evaporate from the sticker.
LPL: I hope we have the sticker enough time to dry out.
Low key flexing on how fast he picked that lock.
Subtle
Now I want a channel dedicated to stickerpicking.
That's a skill I'd use much more often.
Use freeze spray
"Hopefully we gave this enough time to dry" This man picked a lock before a drop of acetone evaporates
"denatured alcohol"
he said it in the video.
it is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad-tasting, foul-smelling, or nauseating to discourage its recreational consumption.
@@Nagria2112 too bad we can't do the same with graphics cards to scare away all miners
@@Nagria2112 it's denatured, i don't know how alcohol with dentures would work.
@@mortenmhp word the questions we needa ask
@@mortenmhp i missspelled
Dude, gotta love LPL. "There's this expensive lock with tamperproof sticker!", - videos is literally seven minutes long. And more than half of it was spent on talking about the lock, rather than picking it.
I wonder if one day we'll see him post something like an hour long video and think, wow I wonder what went through that.
Today is a good day
@@fauzirahman3285 April fools
@@CED99 i failed nofap 😔
Less than 1/4 the of this video was him picking the lock.
Please consider the prize for finding LPL in his home without an invitation. He is a heavily security minded individual who trains with firearms. For your own safety, leave the man in peace.
"Hi I'm the lock picking lawyer, and today we are opening a mid twenties home invader."
@Bobb Grimley Tracker is located in the bottom of a pit in the middle of the woods. No one around, no sign of activity nearby, nothing happens if you climb in and pick up the tracker chip, but it's just about the message it sends.
Really, someone who would do this is creepy. Very much BEYOND using clues to determine locations (like folks do on the geography-guessing websites). Where I live, "criminal invasion of privacy is a misdemeanor"--I don't know if sending someone a CONCEALED TRACKER technically fits the definition, but it certainly seems extreme...
@Bobb Grimley Pull out the batteries.
@@kenc2257 I think that he's probably quite used to this, unfortunately. As he is involved in legal work, he likely has an entire security routine right in the Post Office to ensure his own safety at home.
Love the education of this channel - but even more, the style and good nature of the content. Some of the best stuff on TH-cam or anywhere.
I was just thinking this. Mos def some of the best stuff being made today.
I love that he never has any music tracks
It actually seems like a rather good lock, as our LPL used a 'special' of a tool that not too many actual burglars would have ina pocket, or, the finesse to say "that's a false gate...that's a true gate..."
Total Respect for knowledge, experience, and subtlety!
Not really much of a special tool when you can buy similar ones on ebay/aliexpress, etc... It's slightly longer to tension on the second pin instead of the first but I doubt that makes too much of a difference
@@DrakeOola if you can't tension off the first disc then it accounts for literally the entire pick-ability of the lock. Also, most people trying to break into your shit aren't going to come prepared with that tool in the first place, especially a niche variant of an already niche tool.
@@DrakeOola Most of the time if a burglar or thief really wants your stuff, they'll just break the lock or remove the hardware the lock goes into. Thieves are lazy and almost never try picking. Why bother picking when an angle grinder is faster and easier.
@@nathandkreosote9917 'usually a matter of sound - Depends on where the thieves are targetting
@@GOTHICforLIFE1 that's true, the only time I can imagine a thief using picking is when they want to keep a low profile and can't use destructive attacks. For almost everything else though, much easier and faster to just break in.
This is yet another reason why anti-tamper seals are bogus on so many levels. Excellent video as always.
They do make anti-tamper stickers that are better than those.
Why would you mess with something when it's still within the warranty period?
@@thorham1346 some guy added a headphone jack to the first iphone model that removed them. Why should that void his warranty for other non related damage?
@@MegaLokopo Because you're still modifying the device. If you have problems, Apple can't be sure if you caused them or they did... and why should they repair your mess up?
I also don't get people's fascination with the headphone jack. Dead tech is dead.
@@SnowyRVulpix Innocent until proven guilty. If they can prove I broke it, then they shouldn't have to repair it, if they can't prove I broke it and I paid for a warranty or am still within the free warranty then they should repair it.
Apple also has a history of releasing products with major flaws in every unit they produced and not fixing the mechanism they made with a major design flaw for customers who paid for the warranty because they opened up the device, for a completely unrelated reason.
The audio quality you can get from a headphone jack is far higher than you can get wirelessly. The problem with using a dongle is the added complexity of different standards and the different dac locations in different brands cables. aux cables are universal assuming the connector fits.
I was kind of hoping you’d send it back opened with the anti tamper seal still over the key way. That’d be a flex.
It would be a flex, 'to the sender' but the viewers could simply say that it was not likely working after that. He avoided flexing to curb the ugly nay sayers.😉
Anyone know what solvent he was using ??
@@lupuraku why shouldnt it work after that? Doesnt make any sense at all. Dont understand
@@constantin2449 Some people might argue that the rubbing alcohol damaged the adhesive and made it no longer stick to the lock properly after he reapplied it. You and I know that isn't what happens but other people don't have that nugget of knowledge to work with.
@@AG-en5y Rubbing alcohol. 😁
I started picking locks a couple years ago after watching a couple of your videos, you are the GOAT at picking locks and I have learned alot from your videos, thanks man.
It took about as much time to pick the lock as to peel the sticker. Conclusion: duck tape your door
Now I just need to attach a syringe full of denatured alcohol and a scalpel to my keyring...
@@HaloInverse don't forget the tweasers... don't want to have your fingerprints on it.
Duct tape. Not duck tape.
@@leeuwengames315 Eh, I don't mind having my own fingerprints on my own duck-taped door. It'd still reduce wear-and-tear on the edges of the duck tape.
@@1971merlin I'm obligated to point out that "duck tape" (made from cotton duck cloth with a rubber/plastic/polyethylene coating) and "duct tape" (made from adhesive metal foil) are _both_ real things, and are two completely different kinds of tape. Duck tape tends to disintegrate over time when applied to ducts, which is why duct tape should be used _on ducts_ instead. Duck tape is more water-resistant, so it's better suited for doors (and coincidentally, ducks) than duct tape.
...also, there is duck tape which _is_ designed for use on ducts (it handles high and low temperatures better than standard duck tape), so "duck duct tape" also exists.
LPL: "Best day of my life: I've received a lock with a tamper sticker on it in the mail"
It's like when you can finally use a meme you've been holding.
I'm pretty sure LPL has already broken into all our homes, picked our locks, then reassembled everything and left without a trace.
Stole all of our stuff, and replaced it with identical stuff
A true lawyer
Derives extreme fun and satisfaction by finding ways to bend the rules and demonstrate how a bit of creative interpretation can get you very far!
Fun fact: tampering with those stickers can't void a warranty. Thank you FTC
Link?
@@Lumens1 I'll try.
I don't know if the comment will be deleted, so I'll post it in the next comment.
If you don't see it, that means it has been automatically deleted.
@@andregon4366 'Tis not here so yep
@@andregon4366 try breaking up the link or just giving quick instructions on how to find it, maybe?
Just google something like "does removing a security sticker void your warranty": and find something like this: Most consumers don't know that these stickers are actually illegal-and that's because manufacturers don't want you to. Under the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Feds mandated that you can open your electronics without voiding the warranty, regardless of what the language of your warranty says. Oct 11, 2018
LPL during off hours: "I pick locks and post the videos on youtube!"
LPL during work hours: Infiltrating a Level 1 secure facility without a trace under code name nutterbutters
I mean, he even built a machine that cracks the security safes just automatically 😂
Anyone know what solvent he was using ??
@@AG-en5y put your audio on... 😂😂😂😂
I hope it's a pill factory. Those are fun
So not only is he a lawyer, and a master lock picker, but he's skilled with a scalpel as well. Dr. Lockpicking Lawyer?
As he just showed us, he picks more than just master locks haha (I knew what ya meant though)
With that many talents, the man must be Johnny Sins
Someone should send him a Doctorate of lockpicking. Although he obviously won't be a medical doctor, he WILL 'technically' be Dr. LPL.
He's also a nuclear physicist, and lead singer in a rock band.
@@Zomby_Woof The Hong Kong Cavaliers
Just found your videos and in every one of these I've seen you just say the darndest things so straight faced and it really cracks me up, thank you
He didn't just pick the lock, he picked the sticker... the damn sticker 🤣 this man is good
quicker sticker picker
This has the same energy as the story of John Wick and the pencil.
*this man is god
Challenger: I have also included an anti-tamper sticker.
LPL: And I took that personally...
LPL: You think i wont pick that as well?
Lul'd
The fun counter troll would have been to gut the lock, rearrange the discs, then send it back to the owner.
That could have been mistaken as having different lock sent back to you. Having the sticker on and having the same lock open without any explanation would have been the best solution.
@@MikkoRantalainen Gutted, rearranged, open, and sticker intact would have been the best of both worlds.
@@calicantdrive not really, you could have just gutted a different lock and added an anti tamper sticker.
@@alphaplayzz1381
Anti tamper sticker from his workplace ?
@@heidelbergaren5054 those stickers are mass produced
How scared must that guy who sent him a tracking device be now! LPL knows you tried some shady shit! You still don't know where he is, but I'm sure, given everything we've seen him do, he will find you! And now you wait for the man who can bypass any lock, owns guns and is a LAWYER to make his next move! Someone should make a suspense/thriller movie about what this guy must be thinking lmfaooooo
oh no im in danger..
dont most all packages need a return address? could have used a fake one sure but still
@@JS-rv3et I was assuming he used a fake return address if he included one at all. It's LPL though... if he REALLY wanted to, I think he could find him was my point 😉
Fortunately for him, he didn't try this with Mark Rober.
And LPL spoke at a cybersecurity conference. Physical locks are not the only security under his scrutiny. I wouldn't want to be the mad bastard that'd try this shit on LPL. Solid 10/10 yikes from me, dawg.
I was waiting for LPL to say "the tool that Bosnian Bill and I made" and it felt strange when he didn't 😂
It was a different tool.
Bosnian Bill died right? I think I remember that happening
@@homeslice4551 afaik, a friend of bosnian bill died and he takes care of his kids now
@@homeslice4551 he retired, Didn't die
@@RickDupuis Retired from TH-cam only, afaik.
What impressed me the most is how LPL moved that sticker around on those tweezers. Never let it drop.
LPL has totally destroyed my belief in locking things up. "Locks only keep honest people out."
From now on I am just going to use epoxy.
Baling wire and duct tape.
Epoxy 😂😂😂😂😂 I totally agree
That lock looked pretty good. Took 90 seconds for a highly skilled locksmith to open using a specialized tool. A solid lock will keep a petty criminal out, and the government will just use a battering ram anyway
Forget it just use a hollow cube with no doors.
I worked in a shipyard. Welding and heavy bolts wouldn't keep determined shipfitters out of your toolboxes 😄
I love your whole video setting. You have a very shiny metal plate to work on and still manage to light the whole scene evenly without too bright reflexions. Furthermore you place the camera directly above your work space and manage to do tricky fine work without casting shadows on what you are doing and without blocking the view or hitting the camera. The camera is always well focused.
Apart from your skills at lock picking, I thought that worth mentioning.
Today I have learned more about tamper seals than locks and that's gonna be extremely helpful. Thanks LPL!
(For the record, it's not like I don't need to know about locks, just I already know loads about then from every other video)
Hands down the most epic LPL video of all time. Defeated the sticker, defeated the lock, crushed the time trial, flexed his own custom made picking tool + method and remained calm and monotone the entire time.
What a dick move, sending a tracker to someone who just values privacy. Not sure about US law, but given this person was dumb enough to try to invade the privacy of an actual lawyer, I hope there's grounds on which to sue that person.
While I agree with the sentiment, I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble. I'm not an US lawyer, but I'm pretty sure if you sue someone for something like this the trail would be public. You would also have to disclose who you are and, in my country at least, that also entails your address and ID number.
All in all, it might be counter productive. Again, I'm not familiar with procedural law in the US, but those are some common formalities in European law systems.
The only problem with that is by presenting a case, the identity of LPL would be revealed.
It's a dick move but not one without reason. LPL is/was a professional security expert and is now selling lock picking equipment and showing people how to easily bypass security. Professionally speaking, what LPL is doing is taboo; he could very easily be blackballed from the security industry, or sued, if someone found out who LPL is. There might be a bounty on his identity.
@@adrianl8429 Could possibly file a restraining order. Would have to track the person down.
@@lonercs I don't think it's taboo actually. Most would-be thieves would have a very hard time doing what he knows how to do it. It takes a specific skillset and hours upon hours of practice to break anything higher-grade than a Master lock. >>;
Ben is going to be very surprised when he sees this video while holding that lock in his hand again.
Me the ALPHA M*LE of this comment section and me command RESPECT. Right now me telling you to NOT observe any of me nice cool sweet videos. Instead just look at me awesome good powerful thumbnails. Thank you, dear zar
I mean LPL failed the 3 minutes (He started challenge at 2:13 and finished at 5:34, 3 minutes and 21 seconds) so he would have received the lock anyways and LPL would still have made a video about it.
@@daftbence No. he started the challenge at 6:32 when the sticker was removed. he picked the lock at 5:34 so it took him -62 seconds to pick the lock.
@@daftbence subtract out all the time pausing and explaining and he did it amazingly fast.
@@bloodred255 yeah, it depends if you consider the sticker removal part of the lockpicking process or not. Either way he probably would have done it under three minutes if he didn't stop to tell us what he was doing.
I'm not interested in locks, I watched the whole video :D. You are one of those people that we need in internet no matter what. THANK YOU!
Many commenters seem to not get the point of the anti tamper seal. It was put on by Ben to ensure that LPL picks the lock on screen the first time as it was meant as a challenge lock.
If so, now Ben doesn't know if that happened, as LPL could have taken that stickler off and replaced it more than once.
@@GRice999 LPL already had that same lock anyways, he used it as an opportunity to show that anti tampering stickers can be avoided rather easily.
@@darkithnamgedrf9495 And also showcase that new, neat tool that tensions off the 2nd disc...
@@GRice999 - He implied this at 1:33.
@@GRice999 "Did I cheat on this challenge?" is the video title - so yes, exactly that.
But LPL would never do that. Or would he?
Not only picked it and defeated the seal but at the same time, and within time frame, provided a complete guide with explanation. This must be horrifying for engineers wokring years on perfecting these techniques LOL. Fascinating!
21. Who knows a little bit of chemistry. It's pretty easy to figure out how to do what LPL just did, The trick is doing it without screwing up because if you make any mistakes then you're f*****
In my head, LPL is a master thief who steals priceless paintings, puts them in other museums where they wouldn't expect the painting to be, and then disappears without a trace.
this is just an advanced version of the light switch shifter
That would be an interesting premise for a movie
@@AlanTuringWannabe Go watch "The Thomas Crown Affair," starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.
Not working for the British Museum! ;-)
"I already have one of these so I'll send it back regardless"
GG Ben from Oakland, your lock never stood a chance.
I like how when accused of cheating his response is more like “a man after my own heart”
Very wholesome
Fan: "Use this sticker to prove you didn't practice."
LPL: *proves his skills make it impossible to prove*
*mic drop*
LPL said he already owns that lock. I get why he'd take it as an insult to suggest he can only do it if he gets time with the lock. His skills come from the fact that he's spent time with all of these locks. It's not a magic power, he's practiced, and suggesting he needs practice as a way to discredit what's gained with practice is worthy of getting a mic dropped on your head.
@@wmbtech i dont get the impression he was insulted, and the idea that ben was trying to discredit him seems pretty silly based on the letter
Ant to prove that this was not a fluke, I will reapply the sticker.
6:25 what LPL didn’t realize is that this was just a clever scheme to get his fingerprint and skin oil on a sticker.
Too bad he's in sending him back the new identical lock he has and keeping that one lmao
@@freedomfox8183 ..with a “special” security pin installed that makes it an order of magnitude more difficult. ;)
Good thing he ripped it out then at the end... :D
Not his skin oil, just great... Now there will be clones of him and picked locks every damn where!
Oh, I'm sure he cleaned the lock after the video. He wouldn't miss something obvious like that.
I've been picking locks since I was a kid.
Ever since I came online, some 25y ago, I kept to one idea, Nothing is private.
No matter where you put a door, digital or physical, it can be opened by the wrong people.
Prob the only way to keep most people out, is to hide that there is in fact a door present
Or hide the idea that there might be something valuable enough behind the door that would be worth getting charges for gaining access to
LPL: "I hope you had as much fun as I did."
Me: "I can assure you sir, you had way more fun than I did" as I'm throwing out every lock I've ever bought.
Just because LPL can pick something in under a minute doesn't mean your locks are worthless. I would consider LPL a Olympic level competitor. Most Olympians aren't going to be breaking into your garage. But I'm glad he is showing just how crappy most stuff is.
Go watch the video where he raids BosianBill's naughty bucket. There are plenty of locks there that even he says " nope. can't do it ".. If that doesn't convince you, just get Abloy Protec 2 locks lol
Locks are mostly meant to keep out honest people anyways.
lol
Doesn't matter what lock you put on someone will get in. Can cut the lock or whatever it's attached to
I was not expecting lpl to actually get that tamper seal off so easily
It's actually widely done with electronic equipment that hackers wish to mess with. I know someone who had a variety of anti-tamper sticker clones, so he could just cut it off if he happened to have a match.
Ipa is generally a good solvent for them
On a surface like that? So damn easy. There are ways to make it harder, but then you have to adjust your product design to your seal design. But in the end, just as with locks, this security feature can always be beaten.
I was. If you have some time, you don't even need the syringe and scalpel. Just keep it wet with vodka for a while.
From what I've heard, one of the best tamper-evident methods is something like glitter nail polish and a camera. There's no way to remove it intact, as any solvent would make it flow, and you're not going to replicate the same pattern.
@@pauldriscoll5010 The beer?
Thumbs up for the video, thumbs down to whoever is legit trying to send tracking devices to people's houses.
Great! Not only do I not trust locks, but now I also don’t trust anti-tamper stickers.
Thanks LPL for letting me know I can’t trust anything anymore.
Hey, LPL did have to bring an addition tool though.
And a tool full of stuff that he would need to refill.
So they do make it less likely that your stuff got tampered.
Removing antitamper: 1 minute
Locking pick: 1,5 minutes.
The rest was explaining, so he actually removed the antitamper, picked the lock, and repositioned the antitamper, all within the allotted 3 minutes.
I just.... why do locks exist again?
Because most people don't have the skill necessary or the speed required to pick them in real life situations
For the rest of us mortals who don't own that special lock pick and know how to use it. That's actually a really good lock
@@devent10n Most locks exist as an incovenience so the attacker will go after a different, easier target, not that the lock actually stops them.
To keep honest people out.
Yeah, if no one is around, thief not gonna bother lock picking it, just brute force. If someone is around they will notice the thief and hopefully record and report them. Those tools are useful for 'cat burglars' if they to it 'proffesionally' and for situation no one is around and no camera will record them
If someone told me you picked a turtle out of his shell, I’d likely believe it!!!
Great channel.
I get the meaning, but that would be super fucked up lol. Like saying you picked someone's skin and nails off...
A turtle's shell is part of its skeleton...
@@renakunisaki LOL. That’s why it would almost be unbelievable.
The trick is to pick the turtle out of its shell and put it back in without damaging the turtle..... Don't try this at home children.
It would be pretty cruel because a turtle's shell is basically fused with it's spine and ribs, so yeah, you'd be removing it's entire spine and ribs. I don't think the turtle would appreciate that.
Absolutely hilarious he picked the sticker too. Totally on par for LPL
wow this is the best advice you could give to a criminal not only did you teach how to beat the lock you also taught how to get past the sticker too bad it's useful for thieves guess that promotes lawyers