Chapter 6. They all come tumbling down
Pin tumblers in other configurations
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• The secret weakness in 90% of padlocks
From the start of this book, we have spent a great deal of time focusing on pin tumbler locks.
Chapters 1 and
2 dedicated a great many diagrams to illustrations of how these locks are constructed and function.
Chapters 3 and
4 contained many guides and exercises on how to use basic lockpicking tools in order to manipulate and open these locks. However, thus far the material presented has focused almost entirely on pin tumbler locks of the common “bitted blade” variety…which feature a “vertical” keyway and a row of pin stacks running along a single, uniform vector ...