{"id":9886,"date":"2015-12-07T14:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9886"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:19:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T20:19:49","slug":"tradecraft-how-to-pick-locks-and-break-padlocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/tradecraft-how-to-pick-locks-and-break-padlocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradecraft: How to Pick Locks and Break Padlocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9887\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/lockpick.jpg\" alt=\"lockpick\" width=\"400\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The art of picking locks may seem like the stuff of\u00a0action-movie heroes, rather than a commonly known\u00a0skill. But\u00a0with perseverance, an understanding of locks, and the right tools, anyone can become a successful lock pick.<\/p>\n<p>Although most advanced and higher-end locks can only be broken with\u00a0purpose-made\u00a0picking tools, improvised lock picks can be used to crack low-end or improvised locking systems. According to retired Navy SEAL Clint Emerson&#8217;s book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/100-Deadly-Skills-Operatives-Surviving\/dp\/147679605X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1446750933&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=100+deadly+skills&amp;tag=bisafetynet-20\">100 Deadly Skills<\/a>,&#8221; all it takes to create a lock pick is two paper clips, a hard surface, and a pair of pliers.<\/p>\n<p>All a person has to do is bend the clips\u00a0in the correct way to imitate professional rake and torsion tools.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"KonaFilter image-container display-table\"><span class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static3.businessinsider.com\/image\/5643cfcb11231404018b45dd-1200-1266\/bi_graphics_making-lockpicks.png\" alt=\"BI_graphics_making lockpicks\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/graphic-on-how-to-pick-locks-and-break-padlocks-2015-11?nr_email_referer=1&amp;utm_content=BISelect&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_campaign=BI%20Select%20PST%20Control%202015-12-06&amp;utm_term=BI%20Select%20PST%20Control%20Group%20%28Smart%20List%29%20-%20USE%20THIS\">Business Insider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The art of picking locks may seem like the stuff of\u00a0action-movie heroes, rather than a commonly known\u00a0skill. But\u00a0with perseverance, an understanding of locks, and the right tools, anyone can become a successful lock pick. Although most advanced and higher-end locks can only be broken with\u00a0purpose-made\u00a0picking tools, improvised lock picks can be used to crack low-end&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2161,1489,1189,10,404],"tags":[3235,3236,3237,3238,3239,3240,3241],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}