Standard Deadbolts vs Magnets

[jalapeno19104]

Hello, been lurking here for a while and have been learning a lot!

This is my first post, so I apologize in advance if this is not the appropriate place. I ran into a video of someone opening a normal US residential deadbolt with a strong magnet, here is the link to the video:

http://youtu.be/cX-t6QJ7eDI

The technique appears plausible to me, similar to the ice-pick attack except with an invisible magnet, so naturally, I have two questions: 1) is this possible? and 2) If so what is the best way to protect against this type of attack?

Thanks in advance for the insight!

[MBI]

Ban magnets!

[ARF-GEF]

maaagic...
anyway though there has been confirmed magnetic attack to specific locks I very strongly doubt that this is a general weakness.
I tried it with my schalge, though with ha much weaker magnet and it's not working.
AFAIK it's not even theoretically possible to do, at least not with any schlage deadbolt as suggested but I'm sure the Americans here have a much better insight into the details of those deadbolts.
To sum it up my opinion is: it's fake :S

(PS.: Welcome Jalapeno we are glad you came out of the shadows )
(PS.2: LOL MBI)

[MacGyver101]

I'm curious what he's doing at the 0:04 mark in the video. Any sort of attack like that would be exceptionally hard if the bolt were actually deadlocked.

[MBI]

I'm curious what he's doing at the 0:04 mark in the video. Any sort of attack like that would be exceptionally hard if the bolt were actually deadlocked.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there, he does that AFTER he smacks the bolt to show it's fully thrown. I bet he slightly rotated the thumbturn so it wasn't fully latched anymore.

[jalapeno19104]

I'm curious what he's doing at the 0:04 mark in the video. Any sort of attack like that would be exceptionally hard if the bolt were actually deadlocked.

Good catch I didn't notice that!