[Squelchtone @ Sep 19th 2006 10:00AM]

oh yeah, security through obscurity because only a handful of locksmiths know about it and the general public is not made aware of how bad of an idea it is to have a Kwikset on their front door? Get serious man, the public needs to know this stuff. It's not posted here to educate crooks, it's posted here because the more information you have about a subject the better informed you are as a consumer. Then you can decide if you want Medeco on your front doors, and ps.. a lot more than just a 'few' locksmiths out there payed for Medeco key cutters. I hope this mentalilty that only locksmiths should know how a lock works goes away sometime soon, it's been veiled in this guild of secrecy for far too long, and thieves will find this info out anyway because they are determined.

The secrets only keep the public in the blind and make them think that the 'pick resistant' Defiant brand lock from Home Depot is really protecting their house. Right now bumping is a fad, and I'm a good lockpicker but sometimes it takes me 10 minutes to bump a Kwikset. It's not like you put a bump key into a lock and boom it's open, it takes practice and skill. Same with lock picks, you don't just stick a pick into a lock and it opens in 10 seconds.. that takes skill and commitment, and a crook would sooner use a brick to get into a window than learn bumping or picking.