Here’s any easy method for backing out the combination of a Master Lock. In a perfect world there would be 64,000 possible lock combinations (40 3). The construction of the lock prevents this from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: YouTube If you use a Master combination lock at the gym, you might need to reconsider it after reading this post. Because ...

Learning to pick locks is a fun exercise in learning about locking mechanisms, honing a useful skill, and getting a better understanding of how locks work and protect—or fail to protect—you and your ...

Long, long ago we covered a method to crack a Master lock in about 30 minutes or less. Here’s a revival of the same method but now the instructions to retrieve the combination are in info-graphic ...

Forgot your Master lock combo? Or want some incentive to not use a Master padlock? There’s a website for that. The video above from Samy Kamar shows how you can crack any Master combination lock ...

Locks are designed to keep honest people out. (Dishonest people can always break a window.) But that doesn't mean that honest people can't enjoy picking them. I've been an amateur lock picker for four ...

This story first appeared in WIRED 13.02 published in February, 2005. For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard ...