Mastodawn

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)

The lockpicks in question:

(Also, happy to answer questions about my kit 😊)

Update: thank you Red Team Tools & @deviantollam for being responsible for like half my toolset 😘)

imdat celeste

[witchzard]Jul 2

@alice That indeed is a disturbing number of lockpicks ... 😳

(But coming back to the questions: "what else do you have in your pants?" 😝😂)

XenoPhage

Jul 2

@alice Nice kit! What's your absolute goto?

revolutionary girl erin Jul 2

@alice Oh that's some really nice kit.

Ugly Bag of Mostly Water Jul 2

@alice Hello! I don't know much about picking. Do you have a suggestion for a learner's kit, preferably non-amazon?

Thanks in advance!

Alex Jul 2

@alice thinking bout getting those red, blue, etc tension wrenches... seem like what i might need right now...

Alex Jul 2

@alice eventually i plan in buying an orbit gear keychain so carrying some of this should be easier.

kwayk42 Jul 2

@alice the ultimate 'I want to go to there' kit

BedastGPT Jul 2

@alice These days I carry around an expanded covert companion kit. Though I just ordered some more goodies today.

NosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ guillotine enthusiast Jul 2

@alice Oooooooh, the loop on the tensions I really like. My hands are too huge to deal with getting good grips on the "z" shaped ones I got and I cramp a lot.

nellie-m Jul 2

@alice

😳

you don’t sit down very often, do you?

Andrew Jul 2

@nellie_m @alice You're pretty amazing Alice :)

Arratoon Jul 2

@alice I went down a rabbit hole of lockpicking videos on YouTube a couple of weeks ago, and it was so good.

schrotthaufen Jul 2

@alice @catsalad I’ll take you up on that :D What are the 2nd from the right, and the 3rd from right on the bottom row used for?

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

Jul 2

@schrotthaufen @alice For locks! Next question (/jk)

schrotthaufen Jul 2

@catsalad @alice I mean… you’re probably right, but also not helpful. Do you work at customer support for a large company? :P

Joe W Jul 2

@schrotthaufen @catsalad @alice maybe they are a mathematician? It's a correct answer but not really helpful in the real world?

sortius

Jul 2

@alice aww, I only have the Genesis set in my bag

C3Casi Jul 2

@alice That's a nice set :-)

everybody's favorite gay epileptic ringtail Jul 2

@alice i am curious about the city rake, what exactly is the use case that city rakes fill that wave rakes dont? is it about defeating somewhat tougher bitting?

Codey McCodeface Jul 2

@alice @catsalad Wow! I’m not a lockpicker, but my spudger kit is looking pretty shabby right about now.

@alice It's my pleasure to support your learning and your awesomeness ☺️👍💚

lucasmz (he/they) (en)Jul 3

@alice @deviantollam is that to put on the uretha

Guillaume Rischard Jul 3

@alice @deviantollam Q: why so many lockpicks?

PaulaToThePeople 😷Jul 3

@grischard @alice @deviantollam I love it when cis dudes create a problematic system and then blame non binary people for the lack of a solution.

But what toilet do you use?
But do you participate in women's or men's sports?
But which shoe sizing scheme fits you?

It's like asking a readhead to choose between the blonde toilet and the brunett toilet.

But why don't you stop with the arbitrary, exclusive boxes?

@PaulaToThePeople @grischard @alice @deviantollam

➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻Jul 3

Man attacking woman while saying, "But, how will women feel safe if they don't have thier own bathroom?!"

Violet Pixel Jul 3

@PaulaToThePeople @grischard @alice @deviantollam

> But why don't you stop with the arbitrary, exclusive boxes?

they didn't... they had separate toilets for Africans, Asiatics and Europeans.

TheMagicalC Jul 3

@alice @deviantollam are those bent pieces of wire on the top left for snapping locks like a pick gun?

AAA365 Jul 3

@alice @deviantollam Thats an impressive kit, the handel fell off kitchen door while I was in there pretty chuffed to use a piece of wire to get out.

leberschnitzel Jul 4

@alice but where's the round one you showed in another pic! You're hiding more in your pants! 😒

not steve Jul 5

@alice @deviantollam What's the top left with the forked end and a safety pin attached to it for?

The Doctor 6d ago

@alice @deviantollam Question about the latch bypass tool - how can you tell if a door lock is actually vulnerable? Been trying to figure that out for years to build a practice door, but I've no idea.

@drwho in a deadlatch setup there's a little latch that sits at the "top" of the regular one. If a door is correctly installed, then that little latch is depressed by the plate that the larger one clicks into. That stops the big one from retracting while locked.

*But* (way too) often the plate is too big or misaligned, and that lets the little latch extend, which makes the door susceptible to the latch tool.

Or, for most interior door latches, there is no deadlatch, and so the latch can be depressed manually with no issues.

One thing that can make it harder to execute the attack is a plate or moulding that covers the gap between the door and the frame. Angled or flexible tools can still work though.

@deviantollam

Deviant Ollam 6d ago

@alice @drwho indeed, Alice comes in with the spot on explanation here! The smaller element, that little plunger, typically called a "guard bolt" is one key factor.

If it's not present, the latch is almost definitely vulnerable. If it is present, then it comes down to whether the entire door assembly and handle set has been installed properly.

@deviantollam which has been like a coin flip in my experience (at least on residential doors, I'd hope facilities would be better about proper installation).

@alice @deviantollam @drwho Having been on the other side of facilities, the installation is usually better, but the maintenance is no better. Settlement over decades, etc. If the person locks the door, gives a quick jerk, and it stays in place, no one even thinks about it.

Deviant Ollam 6d ago

@drwho @alice from the outside or when the door is open? There's a lot of different ways to tell but it all depends on context.

Maybe I should add this to my list of videos to do. 😉

@deviantollam I'd be interested in that video 🙂

@drwho

Szabó Em, Shrimp Borg

@alice @deviantollam this makes me miss my old pick set

@jadedtwin https://www.redteamtools.com/ carries some good stuff.

(Disclaimer: @deviantollam from #RedTeamTools is a friend and has provided me tools for review)

Red Team Tools

Szabó Em, Shrimp Borg

@alice @deviantollam thanks!

ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /#

@alice @deviantollam What brand and picks would you recommend? I'd like to start picking myself 😇 I failed horribly last time at a conference and I wanna get better 😋

ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /#

@alice @deviantollam I just checked out red team tools, and I'm interested in that pocket knife-like multitool, but Idk whether it's good for beginners

@celeste_42bit I like the multitool quite a bit—it's one of my evergreen pocket items now.

I would highly recommend getting a set of good turning tools. The jackknife is useful, but it has a single turning tool, which isn't as good as the set of three that comes with the starter set.

I'd also recommend getting some dedicated individual picks while learning the basics (they'll stand up to the abuse better than the jackknife while you learn about tension and the right amount of pressure).

@deviantollam

@celeste_42bit the starter kit from #RedTeamTools is good. I also like some of the picks from Sparrows NightShift set.

Look for a couple wave rakes, a couple stout short-medium hooks, and a few tension wrenches (I really like the red/white/blue ones from RTT). That'll get you covered for most pin-tumbler locks, and by the time you outgrow that starter set, you should know enough about lockpicking to know what your kit needs depending on your style.

@alice @deviantollam Thank youuuu 🥰

Sir Toootenstein 4d ago

@alice @deviantollam Noice Kit!