In 2006, Marc Tobias released two white papers regarding key bumping and its possible legal ramifications. Īt the same time, several people in the United States began to talk publicly about the technique and its security implications. TOOOL and Dutch Consumentenbond, a Dutch consumer group, analyzed the technique on 70 different lock models with trained and untrained users in 2006. Bumping received further publicity from TOOOL presentations at security conferences. The technique attracted more attention in 2005 when a Dutch television show, Nova, broadcasted a story about bumping. After further research, a white paper was drafted in 2005 by Barry Wels & Rop Gonggrijp of The Open Organization Of Lockpickers (TOOOL) detailing the method and its applicability. The use of a bump key was not recognized as a potential security issue until around 2002–2003 by Klaus Noch. When the pins would jump inside of the cylinder, the plug would be able to slide out freely, thus enabling the locksmith to disassemble the lock quickly. In the 1970s, locksmiths in Denmark shared a technique for knocking on a lock cylinder while applying slight pressure to the back of the lock plug. Though the technique was known, it appears use was limited because it was considered a trade secret by many locksmiths. When selecting your lock picks you should also consider quality and thickness characteristics.The first known mention of a 'bump key' is in Hiram Simpson's 1926 patent 'LOCK DEVICE'. To this end, we primarily offer lock picking tools from Peterson Manufacturing as we believe them to be of the highest standard of quality! We have made it our explicit mission to ensure that we only offer tools that will not only get the job done but last a long time while doing so.

With so many lock picking tools and brands on the market today, we have to ask, “what’s useful and what’s not?” Rather it’s caused by beating one’s face repeatedly against the nearest hard object while trying to establish what tools to invest in.

Oddly enough the first headache inflicted by this craft isn’t typically from picking a lock. That’s why here at Art of Lock Picking we have the highest standard of quality in our selection of lock picking tools on the market - no fluff, no fillers. Using poor quality lock picking tools blows.

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