Door Locks

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Door Locks - Are Yours Good Enough? By X Serrurier

Your door locks can make the difference between having a secure home and being another victim of a seemingly unstoppable crime wave. There was once a time when provided you had locked the doors, you pretty much knew your home was secure, sadly this is no longer the case. Regrettably the inter-net is in part responsible for this. Like the 'Force' the inter-net also has a Dark side, and in recent times it has seen a growing number sites offering information on Lock picking and Locksmiths Tools for sale. As a semi-retired Locksmith I regret the passing of this kind of information into the public domain, but we have to accept the fact that, what could once be considered secure, is secure no longer. We have to 'up-the -anti' on the inter-net crime school. The good news is that a great deal of what has found its way onto the inter-net is of low quality, indeed some of it is so bad, it could be considered dis-information, this works to our advantage.

A search on the inter-net for lock picking will inevitably bring up amongst its results you tube videos of folks proudly demonstrating their lock picking skills. I have a few comments to make about them; they are all demonstrating on low quality locks, on which they have no doubt been practicing for some time. Nevertheless these videos do serve one useful purpose, and that is to bring home to ordinary decent folks, that they are at serious risk placing their trust in inferior locks. Another factor that works to our benefit is that, there is a world of difference between picking a lock you have come to know in the relative comfort of a workshop, and attempting the same thing on an unknown lock in a potentially hostile environment.

There are 5 broad categories of locks in general use around the world; cylinder-locks, leverlocks, tubular-locks, combination locks, and electronic locks. Many electronic locks also incorporate a keyed cylinder lock over-ride in-case of power or electronic failure, this of course renders then vulnerable to the same lock-picking techniques as ordinary cylinder-locks. Tubular locks are not used for doors of domestic or commercial properties. Combination locks have their own weaknesses discussed elsewhere, many also have keyed over-rides, similar to the electronic locks. This leaves us with cylinder locks, and lever locks.


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