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Lock Pickers Demonstrate The Need To Rekey Locks

A typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard, garage, high-definition TV, jewelry in the Master Bedroom and a five-pin Weiser bolting the front door – a basic pin-and-tumbler lock, employed by millions of home owners, will look different to an accomplished lock picker or thief.

For most home and business owners see that lock and they think of the security which a quality lock provides. But for a lock picker or thief, it is a game, or possibly a potential score. An experienced lock picker or thief can take 15 seconds with a rake pick and a tension wrench to render your fantasy of security moot. And for all you hipster cyclists with a custom fixed gear ride secured with a Kryptonite U-lock to the railing outsidet? Forget about it. Ten seconds with a Bic Round Stic ballpoint and your ride will be the Metro.  A locksmith will tell you that it is important to rekey locks to ensure your safety.

A Locksmith Knows How A Lock Picker Or Thief Thinks

For the business owner of a jewelry store on Main Street, USA, the need for security is the acme of the locksmith profession. The world sees the shatterproof Lexan windows and stone walls. Sure, you could melt the Lexan with a lighter or turn that wall into lava with a few strokes of a battery-powered thermal lance, but that’s not fair, that’s forced entry. Besides, why bother when you can go through the door? The dimpled 437-rated high-security lock, the one considered to be a 20-minute pick job? Some thiefs and lock picking “hackers” say that a 12-year-old with a bump key could hack it in 20 seconds.

A Keyless Deadbolt May Be The Answer To Your Security Needs

“For me, a lock is an intellectual puzzle, like chess!” Julian the Champ yells in Bavarian-accented English. He yells because two men behind him have started pithing a steel safe with a cobalt-tipped drill. “But when you break a lock, when you crack that first puzzle, when you feel pins click and the cylinder go – it’s like a drug,” he continues. “So then you want to try a harder one!”

It’s this type of bragadoccio which has professional locksmiths working overtime to improve security in these times of higher crime rates.  Some locksmiths believe that a quality keyless deadbolt system will help provide the answers to security problems into the future.