how to rebuild a lock to be unpickable

[UWSDWF]

EMO TWATS TO THE RESQUE!

It's not a stretch to say that on their epic climb to the top of the Billboard albums chart, Fall Out Boy have shed their fair share of blood, sweat and tears — spending nearly five years crisscrossing the country in vans, buses and airplanes will do that to you (see "Fall Out Boy Take It To The Top, Score First Billboard #1").

But on next month's tour, they'll be focusing primarily on the red stuff.

Taking a (pretty awesome) page from the Kiss playbook — or, more specifically, the Kiss comic book — FOB will be tapping their veins for a contest, one in which they'll mix their own blood with the printing ink that will be used on a series of promotional posters. A winner will be chosen in each city the band hits on the upcoming Honda Civic Tour, which also features Paul Wall, the Academy Is ... and +44.

"We're going to be running a series of contests. One is an ode to Kiss," bassist Pete Wentz wrote in his journal on FallOutBoyRock.com. "My brother is going to make 45 prints based on images from our record. Each will be hand-numbered and individually made. In addition, all prints will have a mixture of each member of the band's blood in it."

It's totally gross and historically reverent! See, back in 1977, Kiss — never ones to shy away from virtually any promotional opportunity — donated some of their own blood to Marvel Comics, who then combined it with the red ink used to color the first "super-special" Kiss comic (a tagline on the cover screamed "Printed in real Kiss blood!").

Of course, Gene Simmons and company didn't give those comics away (the first issue retailed for a princely $1.50 — hey, it was 1977). But Fall Out Boy will: One lucky winner at each of the 43 stops on the tour — which kicks off on April 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina — will take home a print, which FOB management said will be "hand-screened variations of the [Infinity on High] tarot-card designs."

Details — including just how the winners will be chosen — have not yet been released, but Wentz is viewing the whole thing as much more than a contest: He wrote that the drawing of their own blood would serve to "[shed] some light on the much-needed support for blood drives," a phrase we're pretty sure you'd never hear from Gene Simmons.

(source MTV.com)

[Shrub]

Emo? No

Emu? Maybe lol

[lockedin]

http://emosong.ytmnd.com/

[Stash]

Emo? No

Emu? Maybe lol

Oh no, Shrub's gonna go Elmo!

~Stash

[Jow]

Best emo vid ever!

[butterboy]

lalalala, la, la, la, la, la.

[Schuyler]

Anyone remember that episode of the twilight zone where the mexican villagers kill the alien who brought them the cure for cancer, but it was burned in the process?

[freakparade3]

how to make a lock unpickable but still working with the ORIGINAL key!!i know how to,,,,,, about you

Weld the original key into the cylinder.........That will leave no place for the pick and wrench.

[TOWCH]

I think if you as an individual are rebuilding a lock you can make it unpickable in a security by obscurity fashion. For example if you take a kwikset or schlage and place miscellaneous active locking elements in it, sidebars, dimples, electronic code systems, etc. You have a lock that no one will ever know how to manipulate unless you start mass producing it or publishing pictures and/or specifications of its internals.

I thought this post deserved highlighting as being a great idea/point. By combining a seal element like microdots or an engraved grain of rice(they do this at alot of malls) and a well hidden active element you could modify a kwikset into a beast of a lock.

[bumpit]

Why does the person who created this thread not reply. These kind of posts really get me angry

[JackNco]

he/she hasn't posted since

[jedidove]

In before it was locked!

...I don't know how else to respond to this topic.

[Knows-Picker]

you could make it so that the cylinder nees so much pressure to turn that it would bend any tension wrench. Maybe have the key cut out of a super high tensil strenght metal. Have the key come to a "T" handle so that it requires extreme torque to turn it. and then make the cylinder two peices with a floathing tamper resistant ball bearing that it trained to break pics.

On a serious note, one ATTEMPT at making locks "pick proof" would be to have a key that was split in the midde and was kept together by magnets. When the key is inserted into the lock it sticks together untill a button on the key is pushed which turns off the electomagnet in the key so the key no longer stays together and the magnets in the bit keeps the key bit stuck in the lock. This key bit would of couse not fit the lock and over set the last three pins. When it was time to unlock the lock it would take two keys, One to remove the bit in the end of the lock, and then one to properly unlock the lock. but even that would eventually get the key designs on the internet, we would copy it and then post it here, ..... Maybe if the lock was made of krytonite and we were all make of lead......noooooo...

I don't think it can be done, but I do think that we have waited long enough and humored you enough to at least get a reply... I guess what I am saying is "I don't know, how many lock pickers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" ..or umm I mean.." How do you make a lock un-pickable?"

[globallockytoo]

As has been said before. Abloy Protec cannot be picked. It is designed in such a way that it cannot be done. (IF I AM WRONG, PLEASE PROVE IT)

There will always be those (even here on LP101) who will claim otherwise, but no proof or evidence is forthcoming.

[Shrub]