Copying Keys from Photos, Molds & More

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• ED

  @edwamser · 7 years ago (edited)

  My first experience watching someone decode a key by sight was when I locked my keys in my pickup truck about 20 years ago. The locksmith showed up, looked inside the truck, saw my keys on the seat. I heard him mumble off the numbers for the cuts and then he cut the key with a Pak-A-Punch and opened my door. I didn't mind paying him $75 for 5 mins of his time and a spare key because this guy obviously knew his trade.

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• NE

  @Nepheos · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AayXf5aRFTI&amp;t=1500">25:00</a> You gotta admit: master locks don&apos;t get much safer if they don&apos;t have the keycodes on &apos;em. any lockpickinglawyer fan will know: these things are mainly decorations.

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• DA

  @DannyWarlegs · 6 years ago

  I used to be a courier in downtown Chicago many years ago. My first day there, they took my picture, and printed it on a laminate, with a dozen local courier companies logos on the front and back, with my name under it, and an entirely useless ID number, which I was told &quot;is just there to fill the slot we dont use ID numbers&quot;. My photo was literally me, in a beanie, with my hood up, wearing my leather jacket, as this was mid winter when I started, so all winter, as I made deliveries, my photo looked like I had just taken it prior to walking into the building-still wearing the same outfit. <br>I preface this, because not a single person asked me that entire winter &quot;how long have you been working for X company?&quot; when they looked at it. They would just write down my name, usually at the security desk, or let me write it down, and where I was going for delivery. I was then allowed access to their maintenance elevators, as couriers do not use the public ones. I could get to any floor I wanted to in any building I was in, just from walking in with an envelope and a name. The ONLY time I ever had a security guard call up to confirm delivery, was at a condo high rise in the super fancy part of Chicago up north on the lake. Rich condos and apartments always called up, lower end ones never did. Corporate buildings also never called up, nor did the security at city hall, or the Thompson Center, a giant hub of municipal and other offices. <br>Most downtown buildings get hundreds of deliveries a day, and its so easy to blend in with them. I remember making deliveries to the same building my favorite radio station was in, and just going down to that floor and watching through the window while they were on air, until I had another call. <br>Its been 10 or so years, but I still have that ID. Im almost positive it would still work too.

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• CE

  @CeruleanVi · 7 years ago

  That charity plug though. Instant respect.

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• VE

  @Verrisin · 7 years ago (edited)

  his definition of a terrible photo is very different from mine XD

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• WO

  @Wolverina92 · 7 years ago

  I had a locksmith rekey my entire house for added security from my ex. After seeing this video, I&apos;m gonna go file off the numbers off my keys.

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• EL

  @eliwatson7936 · 7 years ago

  “at the lockpicking gunfight” goddamit this sounds like my kind of event

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• FI

  @firesidesage3611 · 7 years ago

  im a simple man. i see Deviant, i click.

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• GI

  @ginkumpow3726 · 7 years ago (edited)

  LOL I remember as a child seeing a clay impression of a key made on the show mission impossible. Later in my teens I tried and succeeded using that method to acquire a key to the stables where my girlfriend kept her horse. Then I could obtain mycology samples privately in the middle of the night and not draw any undesirable attention. At that same period in time (70&apos;s) a friend &amp; I made pass keys for the school lockers using a piece of sheet steel, a dremel tool, and some broken locks found in the school dumpster.

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• CO

  @Cobalt-Jester · 3 years ago

  Some of the easiest ways to gain entry is to find an open door around the back of a business building one that smokers use or the back door leading to the parking lot. And just tape a sign to the inside of the door saying &quot;Leave this door unlocked&quot;. You can add reasons to it like access is needed by workmen or security. And more often than not they&apos;ll leave the door unlocked. There&apos;s a lot of cases where people have actually done just that.

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• OZ

  @oz_jones · 7 years ago

  &quot;Ten year overnight success&quot; LOL.

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• LA

  @LazerLord10 · 7 years ago

  With the keyless entry on my car, my keychain never leaves my pocket. Never thought of that as a security feature.

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