They should subpoena his customer list. He’s selling burglary tools, and not just to first responders (should be limited to actual police/fire departments and locksmiths IMO)….and putting out videos describing how to break into businesses.
If there’s a sudden rash of business break ins with no door damage he should be charged as an accomplice. I can’t believe he sells multiple burglary tools on his site, I thought he just proved how bad most padlocks are, I never saw him do a breaking and entering how to before. Yikes!
It should be noted, just getting caught with burglary tools can be a 6 month sentence in California.

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I've seen HaxCon (or whatever) Ted-style talks that basically show you how to defeat every single type of padlock. Usually without picking the lock. Just with a strip of coca cola can.

I'm believing more and more in the old adage, "Locks only keep the honest person out".

The *average* padlock isn't. But there are very high quality locks in the 80 dollar plus range that protect against people with tools.
They may not stop someone from getting past them in an isolated spot, but they're hardened enough that a person with a grinder will need 15 or more minutes ... and with that kind of noise and risk of attention it's not worth it.
So buddy goes and knocks off your master lock with a hammer

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Meh, padlocks are not for securing valuable property or for securing property against someone with any sort of tools at all. They are for preventing opportunistic theft. 30 seconds to defeat the lock is plenty long enough for that. Of course, that is a pretty stupid design, so good video nonetheless. If I owned one already, a little solder or permanent loctite on the inner screws would probably do the trick.

Mostly though, The lock company lost me at $100 for the lock. A traditional dial is not *that* hard to work and I'd be worried about false negatives and dead batteries even with a high-quality finger print reader. Just buy a $10 padlock at the hardware store to lock up your garbage cans, or proper u-lock or quality cable to lock up your $600 bicycle (ie, something that will require 15 minutes to defeat).

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It should work on most normal padlocks, but I have seen more expensive ones that would be more resistant to this attack (the one I'm thinking of didn't leave room to insert the spanner).

Not sure if they have it set up like they do elsewhere and the way other companies do it (like Time Warner/Spectrum did here in Austin), but most of these workers will likely be contractors and the only relation to Comcast they will have is the name on the trucks.

The modus operandi was, and maybe still is, issue an apology, fire the specific contractor, and hire another. When these people go to sue Comcast, their lawyers will tell them that the people were not directly employed by Comcast and therefore are culpable separately. Then you get into the whole hassle of trying to track down the contractor, who usually disappears and reappears under a different name.

I remember getting pissed at Time Warner (pre-sellout) because one of their people trespassed on my property and left my gates open. Fortunately my dogs didn't leave, but they could have. He had right of way to cross one gate because their pole is considered part of the 'easement' to the utility company's equipment. The second gate was padlocked and he cut it off because he didn't have a proper ladder to reach the pole, I assume. I called them and they first tried to BS me that the easement covered both gates, but I told them I had the surveyors confirm it didn't when I redid the fence the year before. Then they said that they weren't the direct employer and the guy was a contractor. I asked for info and they gave me his company name only after I complained to a supervisor. His company had a web page, but none of the numbers worked and the 'business address' is basically a knife sharpening shop in central Austin. Time Warner apologized when I called back, but the most they could do was give me a couple of free months service.

I've only done this once. I will never do it again. In 1994, I turned 21. During my party, a friend brought both Weed and Jack Daniels. I partook of both heavily.

For the first time ever, I was almost unable to move. I've been drunk. I've been high. Never before was I rendered nigh motionless. I would not have placed this on the "Never do again so help me" list if that was the end of the experience.

Later that night, a powerful nausea unlike any I had experienced before or since came upon me. I had barely regained my equilibrium and in the process of vainly trying to make it to the bathroom, I took out a wall in my friend's mobile home. Let me be clear, I am not in any way exaggerating when I said I took out a wall. I was a defensive lineman in school and I was still mostly the same size 3 years later.

I landed in a heap of broken plywood and 2x4's, my friend and his girlfriend awoke to the noise and noticed their bedroom had a new entry. They then were treated to projectile vomit which spewed about the room as I tried to get up and out to the bathroom. They freaked out, got up and tried to run out, forgetting that they were naked. I was able to get up finally, and stumbled back out of their room, where I blearily noticed that everyone who was still hanging about the party were gawking at us. Me, covered in puke, a glow in the dark OP T-shirt, and bleached jeans. My friend and his girl covered in puke alone.

Puke glows oddly under blacklight, let me tell you. Anyhow, we all got cleaned up, I changed clothes, and then my future wife took me home. I went back a week later, after the shame had worn off a bit, to get my clothes. My friend had moved, his rented trailer was padlocked, and I never heard from him again.

If by some miracle you are reading this, Ricky, apologies bud.

That's like the weakest lock that master lock makes. We used to kick open padlocks on lockers in high school. So what.

Sure, that sucks more than usual, but again padlocks aren't for locking up valuable things. They prevent opportunistic casual theft. They're one step above luggage locks--only better than a nylon zip-tie because they can be reused.

If you use this with the intention of keeping out the class of people who might know this trick or bring tools along for their burgling, (like say a $20 bolt cutter that will do for most any padlock) you're doing it wrong.

Yeah I think @newtboy got it, didn't he? I know it was a pretty elaborate setup they created to get out of there--in the movie. It was fun to watch, but too long ago for me to remember all the details perfectly.

Even MacGyver had some events that were pretty close; though I can't exactly remember if he ran into this situation (though he went through a padlock using something akin to this, if I remember right).

If you open it on YouTube, you can see a little padlock to the left of the title. That's the mark of an unlisted video. I suppose TRNN prefer to have folks visit their own page instead of just sifting through their list of uploads on YT.

They should put a little padlock on the cage and give kitteh a collar with the key jingling from it

This ain't even a challenge for this catter.