Imagine if he didn't take the time to explain what he is doing.

And your girlfriend's backdoor too

And picks the lock almost as fast as using a key...

Maybe get a different lock

Why do you presume he's human?

Exactly what I was thinking

I’m dying!😂

It's odd to think that something that would probably save a tiny amount of money during manufacture (drilling shallower) AND improve security isn't more widely implemented.

@@JohnWatkinsUK Easier to set the machine to drill them all at the same length than to bother making them different. Not much easier, but still. (Not an excuse, just what probably happens)

@@Kragh50 I imagine five drill heads along a line, and one of them had a broken bit. LPL will have to gut another copy of this lock to show that this was Not A Fluke.

...and you can hear him coming. Nothing at one... :-)

@@petergrunendahl2074 false set on two

“and we got this open… oh wait… WRONG HOUSE WRONG HOUSE”

*unlocks door* "Let me do that again so you can see that it was not a fluke"

"Door's locked, come in!"

I like the way they hid the backup and put all the wires right in front of the hinge so that you can easily access them as soon as you pop the front cover loose to see the backup

@@tildessmoo as long it's just the keypad bus and not a latch trigger it doesn't matter, except for vandalism.

@@Slowtreme We don't know which it is. It's probably just the keypad bus, given how much bigger the internal unit is, but who knows? Also, makes it easy to probe with an arduino or similarly programmable microcontroller (or a laptop, if it's in a place a criminal doesn't mind standing around with an obvious computer hooked up to a door) to automatically run through lots of combos even if it is just the bus. Any external access to wires in a lock - unless it's basic power and ground, and cutting power doesn't cause the lock to change between opened and closed - is bad.

@@tildessmoo based on so many other smart lock reviews on LPL if it was an easy attack vector on this unit I think he would have called it out.

@@Slowtreme It's not necessarily easy. If LPL explored it, he'd probably say something like "As you can see, that wasn't very difficult, but it did take some specialized tools and skills." Still, it's a vulnerability that's not too hard to avoid, and since it's an electronic vulnerability, I'd expect a smart lock manufacturer to avoid it, since it's usually the mechanical aspects that they mess up.

well sadly it is almost impossible to buy a good secure lock with all anti pick and drill features because it is always one of the features missing, that makes the lock pickable within seconds to 1 min. the only way to get a good lock is where only the security pins are missing and then changing them out to security ones that like to reset each other if you single pick the lock.

@@dovos8572 yeah but even the crappiest lock is improved by spending an extra $0 to not let people just bump it open XD why not just always do it?

@@Monty22001 i can understand making a product as cheap as possible just to make the sale, but this is surely a near zero cost literally, and makes the product technically better at its job, thus more valuable. idk about the drilling theory, given LPL has shown us how to open just about everything, unless all locksmiths you're aware of are basically operating as more of a handyman "repairing" a door that won't open rather than an actual locksmith.

@@outseeker It is cheaper without this feature, because it's simpler. Now the difference will be relatively small, but we know very well that they do not care

It makes it considerably harder to consistently produce. The more security pins/features you add, the tighter your tolerances need to be which means your production costs go way up. If you have too much slop, your security pins will either get caught or not extend past the shear line properly. That just means it will be difficult to open the lock at all… even when you use the actual key. You’ll need to jiggle the key around like crazy to get the cylinder to turn. So it’s not that they’re stupid or even lazy, everything comes down to trade-off. Does it make financial sense to have one of the modern high-tech Chinese factories produce your internals even you are forced to offset the added costs by raising the price point so high your product doesn’t sell well and you go out of business? Do you get the cheap factory to add security pins even though they will hinder both lockpickers AND your customer every time they try and open it?

That was my thought.... if it's THAT easy to defeat bump keys then why doesn't every lock have that feature? The obvious answer is that manufacturers don't keep up on the latest technology and features.

@@keithlevkoff8579 If everyone did it the same, then bump keys would just be made with the one spot a little higher. Or they might need 5 or 6 different bump keys... the randomness and secrecy is probably most of the security

@@user-ut9ln4vd5m LPL did said it doesn't get any better I'm going to assume it's not that easy to defeat.

From a mass production standpoint that tiny tweak likely represents a whole separate machine

A bank once gave me a night depository key that was a six-pin blank with five cuts. Their instruction was, "insert it and then pull back one click." I just duplicated it on a five-pin blank.

@@WhereWhatHuh I see weird things like that all the time. I sometimes make two keys for cases like that. One as a direct copy and one as my attempt to fix it. I tell them if the fix works, make future copies from that one instead.

@@TT3Dxyz I never told the bank about it. I figured it was between them and their preferred locksmith. I also saw a building once that had all 6-pin cylinders with 5-pin keys. I figure that certain rooms had a sixth pin, and that let them have a six-pin master on a five pin system.

@@WhereWhatHuh Maybe it was a security feature that only the bank and the clients know, but not the adversary.

@ Yes, i consider that a feature, not a fault.

Door? What door. All I saw was an open 2nd floor window above a garage with a garbage container next to it...

@@bramweinreder2346 Or the patio door in the rear of the house away from public view.

@@johnwang9914 With the whole door consisting of a huge window...

@@johnwang9914 hey, whatever works. Fewer disturbances during a regular week morning. Especially if you act like you have business there. It's all a matter of opportunity. Time and noise are typically not in favour of this opportunity, and while locks and cameras are a good deterrent, they're not a solution. There is yet to be a lock that can substitute a watchful neighbor. So it doesn't hurt to be on close terms with people living in your community.

Until one day someone is taking lishies to school

The difference between a bug and a feature is documentation.

Why do you think it was a flaw? This is clearly something they did on purpose as just drilling a hole with less depth is going to result in a lock that can't be assembled.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade OMG 66 people got it. Its a joke. The context was very clear.

@@WhereWhatHuh OMG 66 people got it. Its a joke. The context was very clear.

@@kameljoe21 If you have to explain that something was a joke, it wasn't clear or funny.

Also nice is that it shows this lock cylinder can be reworked/replaced with something much better. Primus high security core, anyone? Hell, looking at those pins with the standard Kwikset side chambers in the core, you could turn this into an unpickable (*) lock very quickly with trap pins. * Yes, I know. Someone will likely figure out a way to bypass these kinds of traps, or may have already, but they're still damn effective at stopping even advanced pickers from getting in.

Yeah we though LPL forgot how to gut a lock.

It does feel like it's been a long time since we had one- these were the types of vids that got me hooked to this channel.

@@lawlore What, you mean this channel does anything else than quick no-effort videos serving as vector for peddling check chinese junk picks? I wish that was sarcasm, but LP stopped doing any sort of work when he noticed 95% of his "audience" was brainless morons copy pasting the same click on 1 meme to farm likes without even watching...

Bosnianbill did more gutting videos. So that's why we are missing them.

or he's going to open multiple locks.

Guess this was the exception

I would like to give that key to anyone calling himself a master and ask him whatsbunusyal abou the key and wait for his answer

I just got this lock yesterday and my key is totally different. The bow is much smaller at 5/8” and the overall length is 2 3/4”

I saw this and cut a schlage key without thinking. I had to cut it again correctly. Now i need to confirm keyway on every single key i cut

Goes for lots of other "smart" devices and appliances too

Well as long as you have manual backup it has all the same problems and just adds to them. The one advantage is monitoring who's using it, and the ability to give temporary privileges.

When you are ignorant of the details and their importance then "more complicated" looks a lot like "more secure".

I think most people buy smart locks for convenience and not security.

When you have a choice of multiple methods for opening, the weakest one defines the security. Smartlocks are meant to be convenient hence the multitude of options. And if you screw up just one, the lock is garbage.

I can lock my door with my thumb and finger. No batteries to become landfill and leak toxic metals into the earth.

The other thing a smart lock can do is that you can determine if indeed it has been locked remotely and you can be notified when it is unlocked. Over all, a smart lock adds more ways to unlock hence lowers the overall security but the ability to better monitor the entry yourself adds to the security.

@John Wang Because if they want to get in, they are going to get in. I would rather know when they did as opposed to not knowing

Most people cannot pick locks this fast, and your door is not ideal conditions

I'd say every feature costs a couple of hundred thousand dollars upfront to buy and set up the machine that then producec it for realistically free.

@@Eoraph Spools and such are off the shelf parts though, you don't need extra tooling if you're the lock manufacturer

A change in 1 lock doesn't cost hardly anything....but a change in 100k locks makes a huge difference to their profit. Locks are only to keep out honest people and children lol... if someone wants what you have they will get your stuff no matter what type of lock you use.

@@edlocks5112 i mean for you to do a re pin yourself it would cost. It costs a few cents extra for each pin. The lock manufactures just know that the everyday consumer doesn't even know and are oblivious to the fact that a lock doesn't use security pins.

@@ells5656 I understand that point also... but security pins are there to prevent picking and bumping....doesn't prevent against hammer and crowbar attacks which is how most theives get to your possessions. Like I said locks are made to make you feel secure.

That back up pin tumbler lock is garbage - even a novice could rake it in a few seconds. There's no excuse for having zero security pins in a lock these days, especially one this expensive. If you bought this you'd want to swap the core out for something a lot better.

I really hate this saying - it is used to imply that there's no point investing in good quality locks and that absolutely isn't good advice. Good locks, as part of a good security system overall (good doors, thought about windows etc) aren't impervious... but they can and do act to convince thieves that they'll have an easier time going elsewhere. Think about it - if two motorbikes are locked up next to each other, one with a 15 mm hardened steel chain and a really good shielded shackle padlock with a Mul-T-loc core or something, and the other has a hardware store chain and a cheapo Masterlock - if you're a thief you want to be done and gone as quickly as possible with the minimum of noise and fuss... so which bike are you going to steal? The good lock has done it's job - not to be totally impregnable, but to be more risk and effort than the next guy's.

@@chemistrykrang8065 sounds good but according to content of channels like this one locks for security are obsolete, Maybe with the knowledge of someone that is skilled in opening locks as this man is they could design a real lock for security....

I'd say never expect to see more than a single spool in any lock, unless it's a lock made by a company that's renown for actually putting security pins in locks

@@thelockpickingspoon9074 Defiants and Schlage deadbolts have security top pins standard.

@@rmsg7504 I took apart a Schlage deadbolt cylinder that I removed from my old house and was really surprised to discover that in this cheap Home Depot lock all but one of the pins was a spool pin.

@@svgalene465 Brinks, Defiant, Schlage, Kwikset Maximum Security all come standard with high security top pins. So do some of the Bump resistant Master Brand locks.

There must be at least one standard pin to keep the core nice and snug. Or it'll just be loose and nobody would buy it

I guess it's a roll of the dice. I've had mine for almost two years and it's still working great. O.o

@@SpyderZT totally agree about the roll of the dice. I am sure there are many lucky owners like you who don't have any issues. The real test of a company is what happens when there is a problem. For me that's where the biggest fail lies with Ultraloq. Promising me a replacement sensor, then saying replacement sensors are not available, and ending the conversation with I am beyond warranty (even though I reported it within the warranty) because they dragged the issue out due to their slow responses is terrible customer service. Unfortunately I have read others who experienced similar service stories.

Yeah, Good CS goes a LONG Way towards making up for quality issues, I agree. I'll buy a cheaper "Potentially Delicate" device with awesome customer service over a "Probaby Fine" device with BS CS. ;P Sad to hear they're on the bad side. ;?

Had mine for 9 months on our main door. The figerprint sensor is about the only way we ever use it and still works perfectly. If I have an issue, it is usually due to a wet finger or pressing too hard.

@@Nitrousbird hopefully yours continues to work.

His mantra????

I have one. I get a text every time the lock is locked or unlocked.

@@barryomahony4983 what about if the lock is bypassed? And which model is it?

It doesn’t matter how the lock is opened- fingerprint, code, key, internal knob, or the app on my phone- I get a text. There’s a big 4’x4’ window right next to the door anyway, so I don’t get too carried away with security. I just like the fingerprint reader; very fast and accurate

@@barryomahony4983 what model lock is it you have? The one in the video?

LPL did mention you can connect this to your phone and to home automation programs such as Home Assistant, so I would assume there would be features to detect when the door was opened, regardless of what was used.

You have a lot to learn. NEVER trust any lawyer.

@@rmsg7504 no doubt.

Exactly, with enough prep time anyone can look like a genius. I don't see LPL picking locks in the wild, there's a reason for that....

What's funny is mine came with the SC core and they had to send me the KW.

Is the SC core better than a kw core?

I wanted SC to key against other doors. I have to say this core is not as smooth as the others in normal key based operation.

@@skiing3151 ah, Okay thanks!

The wires just passes the keypad input through the door to the interior unit and the screws only allows access to the keypad. You still have to enter the numbers through that wire to the interior unit so the screws and wires does not give you anymore access than before.

No bet on that!

You're not using this on a bank vault. On your house if someone can't get in quick and easy they will just smash their way in. No thief is wasting time fighting with a WiFi or Bluetooth connection.

The core is fairly standard, other than the key pin depth on 3, so repining is easy. If you like the key, you only need to change the driver pins to significantly increase pick resistance.

@@bmitch3020 Toss in a lighter-flint spring or two, add some serrated pins, a spool, and file two driver pins to act as traps in the Kwikset core holes-and you would have a core that would definitely no longer be the weak part of this thing.

A drill and a 1/8" bit will defeat any top pins and spring combinations. So will a rock through a window.

@@rmsg7504 Anti-drill features are not hard to implement. Also, both those entry methods are noisy. The target here, and indeed the OP of this thread, was only focused on the pick-resistance of the lock. "Well, the house is susceptible to having a tank driven through the wall" is another option you hadn't considered, and also significantly faster at gaining entry to the house.

@@ConstantlyDamaged When has noisy ever stopped a burglar LOL? They just kick the door in usually. But some use tools and power tools. Having a legit burglar alarm and cameras is necessary if you really want to slow down, stop or catch them. Honestly even that won't stop them but at least you'll be notified and have video. If its a AirBNB or rental, there might not be anyone around to LISTEN for a break in.

Are all your three locks re-keyed to a common master? Does these unusual features mentioned make re-keying more difficult or irrelevant? - to a lock smith

@@longshuang99 I rekeyed 2/3 to work with the key that came with one of them. The features of the lock don't interfere with the rekeying at all. It's a regular cylinder inside.

LOL 😭 LPL makes money on your tears

Or a manufacturing defect where it wasn't drilled correctly. 😆

It's almost certainly not a defect, if this were an inadvertent thing you'd get a lot of locks where they couldn't be pinned up to plan because of it and it'd cause mayhem. I suspect this core comes in cheap (no security pins) and fancy (security pins, maybe a hard steel first pin for drill resistance) versions... and this manufacturer knew most people wouldn't know the difference so they could save the extra 50p.

He wouldn't claim to be 'the best' at all this is a hobby. You could be this good with a little practice.

But this one doesn't. It keeps him busy picking for 27 seconds 1:54 - 2:22 (admittedly with a Lishi tool, which makes things easier and de-skills things, but he could have single-pin picked it with a normal pick in the same amount of time). The rest of the time is discussing the features and taking the lock apart to show the anti-bump drilling.

I'm willing to bet this could be raked by a relative novice in a few seconds. There's no excuse for a lock with no security pins.

@@dlevi67 5:55 is right there on the screen. Read definition of "whatever."

@@davidcovington901 Whatever.

Lock noob, who despite the name seems a good lockpicker, reviewed the covert companion some time ago.

LPL has a for-profit business. Price shop you'll find better prices but why not help him out a little.

@@rmsg7504 That's not the point. He said the prices have been discounted for this sale, but when I checked I found that his prices have actually increased significantly since last week. I'm hoping it's a mistake but he has not responded.

@@jeeporegon9817 You can shop online too, lots of knock-offs exist. I have about 50 of these for auto, motorcycles and commercial and I paid full price but if you just want one or two and your doing it for fun just get the knock-offs. Original Lishi and Genuine Lishi are legitimate businesses but there are knock-offs all over the place. Some of the knock offs have keyways the legit companies don't too. I like giving LPL business when I can but if someone else has it cheaper I'll go there.

If you have the wifi feature setup with it, you can get notifications when it locks/unlocks and if it was code/bluetooth/fingerprint so you could know who it was. I would assume if it told you it was just "unlocked" you would have to assume it was from the inside or with the key.

Probably 1 cent vs 3 cents per pin and you need 5 pins for a lock like this.

I had the same thought after about ten videos, the man is definitely well equipped and prepared.

he's got bump keys and hammers, a bunch of picks (short, medium, long hooks, offset hybrid, small diamond) and rakes (probably worm, camel, city, and waves), a lishi for most American keyways (door and automotive), pinning trays, followers, at least 2 disc-detainer picks, pinning tweezers, and a lot of firearms

You could change the standard pins to security pins of the same length & keep the same key if you wanted. This would make it harder to pick or rake. You could also use a stronger metal as a pin or two for drill resistance.

EUFY IS SENDING PICTURES TO THEIR SERVER WITHOUT YOUR CONCENT. DO NOT TOUCH WITH A 100 METER POLE

with the recent eufy debacle... its probally safe to stay away as far as possible from them!

If you can some how manage to pry the housing of the door it wouldn't matter if you can get to the wires as at that point you have access to the bar and can just turn it

A decent smartlock sends only key-scan signals, nothing that will cause the door to open unless the right sequence of codes is entered.

As dlevi67 said, the wires are there just to send key codes to the main mechanism / processor, which lives on the other side. At most what you can do is send a strong current and burn the circuits, rendering the door unopenable by electronic means. But even that's not guaranteed: If they use opto-isolation inside, such overcurrent will only destroy the opto-isolator LEDs, but the main circuitry will still be safe.

The pin doesn't reach down far enough for the bump key to bump it.

To massively oversimplify how bump keys work. In a vulnerable lock, the pins rest on the bump key. hitting the key makes them bounce. The third pin in this lock is stopped before it can rest on the bump key, so hitting the key won't make it bounce.

so if the pin doesn't reach down to the bump key, how does the regular key reach up to the pin to make it move to unlock the lock?

@@mlast6049 a bump key has all the regular thickness of a key cut off. the actual key would have more thickness at that pin position so it would reach high enough to push the pin into the proper position. you can describe the cuts of a key by a number value. I think it is 0-5, so a 5 pin lock might have the key cuts, 0, 4, 2, 3, 5. a bump key is cut to all 0 positions, and then is extra long so when it is hit, the little bumps between the positions hit the pins and bounce them. if you did the bump resistant drilling on the third pin, the third pin wouldn't drop down to position 0. it would stop at position 1. so the proper key could push it up to position 2, but the bump key wouldn't bounce it.

ok. thanks.

So you don't get locked out of your house if the so-called high tech part of your lock breaks down.

People fall for marketing gimmicks.. Same lock..add gimmick.. charge more.. Wait that sounds like Master Lock.

@@Icspiders247 Okay, but then there's no need for the high-tech part I guess? Where I live our key has a chip in it and it needs to register the chip when you put it in the keyhole, to let you in the building.. but one doesn't work without the other and that makes more sense to me

@@wuggie88 With a keypad you don't have to take a key out of your pocket. Just enter the code and go on in. The regular lock is unlocked by the keypad part. The key acts as a backup if the smart lock stops working for some reason.

@@Icspiders247 Also allows you to have only 1 key (or 1 key and a backup) but let multiple people inside your home when you're not there, such as family, friends etc. My friend used to have a keysafe on the outside of his property and his friends knew the combination so we could go in and out of his house as we pleased. Luckily we had a very trustworthy friend group and nothing was ever stolen from his house.

Aye, I got one of their thumbprint lever locks from their kickstarter way back. Aside from taking a few tries to get in, I love it. The only problem I ever had with it was when I was charging the batteries and I closed the door. Normally I ductape the latch open, but I was heading out to work and the recent addition of a furry friend to the family and wanting to keep him out of my room... Lets just say the fire department was called, and when the couldn't wedge the frame apart I broke one of the windows from its frame. Mind you, this was in the dead of winter so opening that window required a blowdryer and a footstep. Now I'm actually more concerned about the windows and how easy they are to break into.