The Dark Shift

Escape from Pretoria Central Prison

Escape from Pretoria Central Prison

South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday April 27th. During t...

COLDITZ CASTLE - Lock picks and Gliders

Perched atop a rocky outcrop overlooking the River Mulde in Germany, Colditz Castle stands as a formidable testament to resilience an...

Trade Craft and DEAD DROPS .... are you ready?

The Silent Symphony of Espionage: Dead Drops In the clandestine world of espionage, the utilization of dead drops stands as a timeless and pivot...

THE STASI Secret Police and Secret tools: A Chapter in Cold War Intrigue and lock picking

The Stasi, or the Ministry for State Security, stands as one of the most formidable and notorious secret police organizations in history. Operat...

One of the greatest lock pickers

The tragic demise of Harry Houdini.  Harry Houdini aka “The Handcuff King” was born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary in 1874. Weisz’s fascination ...

Lock picking ...... with Chemistry

Melting locks with chemicals.

$400 lock picked open with a zip tie

Opening locks with Zip Ties!

Peanut butter can open locks

The standard way to open a lock is with the key and after that lock picks. However, when attacking locks, you should look at alternate methods. ...

THE VOTE IS IN

It was pretty overwhelming with 72% of the lock picking community voting in favor of SPARROWS working on a Lock Pick folder for release in late 2...

Arrested for Lock Sport

"It was Cool until I was thrown into Jail" On a Wednesday morning in 2005, Killermaru woke up to check his phone: 94 missed calls. He went to hi...

Abus Lock opened with Blue Tac

In late 2007, Jaakko Fagerlund absolutely crushed an online competition hosted by LP101. The competition was simple: submit a novel article on lock...