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Honestly, when it comes to most US locks, they really are a joke. I learned to pick my parents safe and door locks by 8, and have taught dozens of children to
by lrvick 5y ago
Honestly, when it comes to most US locks, they really are a joke.
I learned to pick my parents safe and door locks by 8, and have taught dozens of children to pick virtually every lock you can find in a hardware store.
As a security engineer the first thing I teach peers isn't even software, but lock picking.
Peoples minds really open up when you show them how to open every lock in their own office in under an hour of training.
"Is security on almost everything we trust every day really this shit?!"
"Yes"
- techdragon 5y agoThank you for this insight. I will forever advise anyone interested in getting started with computer security to learn lock picking first. Having done both In the other order id never thought of how insightful it is for fully realise the fragility of the illusion of safety as it exists in the real world as a better grounding for anyone about to learn the fragility of everything in the more complex and more abstract digital world.