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Sunday, August 6

Keybumping 101

Apparently, there's a simple technique of bumping a "bumpkey" in a lock and it will unlock the lock. This holds true in the U.K. I'm not sure if this holds true for locks in the U.S. If anyone does let me know.

Below is a subtitled Nova video from over seas that explains practically everything about key bumping.





"If a criminal wants to break into your house or car they will do it. Locks are there to keep honest people honest, not to prevent criminals from being criminals." - natosaichek @ YouTube.com

2 comments:

RC said...

kind of bizarre, makes me curious to know how the lock and key industry might change as a result.

--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

It's been around for a while. What's new though is that there are sites out there simply for one purpose... selling bump keys. http://www.bumpkey.us has been around for a while and is selling keys to anyone that wants a set, which is a bit scary.