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MIT Guide to Lock Picking

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This is the definitive guide to lock picking created by Ted the Tool and is subject to his copyright notice.

You can either view the html version of the guide to lock picking here or use the pdf document below.

These pages will show some of the following information:

- How a Key Opens a Lock

- Basic Picking &The Binding Defect

- Basic Scrubbing

- Advanced Lock Picking

- Exercises

- Recognizing and Exploiting Personality Traits


CLICK HERE to download the original postscript source converted to Adobe PDF(uncompressed 521 kB).

You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view this file.

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