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LockPickingLawyer[1] might have something to say about "unpickable".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer




"With a special shim made from the cap of a whiskey that Bosnian Bill and I were drinking, I managed to pick this lock in 23 seconds. In all fairness, without this specialized tool, this would have been an incredibly difficult feat..."


He hasn't picked a Bowley lock yet, which is designed to have a wall in front of the lock with a weird key shape. Some other people have though.


LPL was actually challenged a year ago with unpickable prototypes made by an engineering YouTuber, Stuff Made Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy1FBdCRbQ

(see also description)


The best part of that video is where he notes that the hinge pins were welded "to prevent me from tapping them out and declaring victory...and he was right to do that as that's exactly what I would've done".




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