Retrovertigo wrote:logosys
Yes I am a locksmith. However that does not change the way I view anyone on these boards. I too enjoy picking locks. I do the same thing as you! I watch tv, pick locks. I go to the movies, pick locks. Whenever I am sitting doing nothing at all, I am lockpicking. I also enjoy helping people. And no matter how much experience I have someone else can always teach me somthing I did not know. That is why I joined LP101
You and romstar are correct with the law. And yes I could have read it better. But I did not appriciate the sarcasm that went along with the suggestion. That was clearly not directed at you.
My bad. Peace
I just ripped a strip off you for implying that hobbiest pickers were theives because I missed your post where you quoted me.
The forum screwed up, and that same post was made three times. Then I read this post where you explained yourself, and I felt like an idiot and I had to fix not just two, but delete all three of those posts and then write this.
I appologize for being a sarcastic SOB, it's unfortunately a part of my nature. I am sorry if I offended you. Honestly.
My biggest problem with the law, and unfortunately some working locksmiths is this idea that lock picks somehow equate intent to commit an offence in the hands of anyone other than a locksmith.
I've been in the security business in some fashion or other for many years, and I still haven't figured out why some locksmiths believe they are somehow more responsible with or deserving of their tools than a hobbiest.
I've often wondered if some childish notion of having access to so-called "secret" information does something to them, and they get all messed up somehow. Sort of like the kid that knows a secret and runs around saying "I'm not gonna tell, nah nah nah."
Maybe it's just the fact that they ponnied up the money to become a licensed locksmith in the first place. I really wish I had an answer to it.
Recently the locksmithing community was in an uproar about Matt Blaze, again.
This time for distributing secrets at this year's HOPE convention. That paled in comparrison however to their absolute horror when they discovered Marc Tobais, author of the highly regarded LSS, quite happily in tow at that same convention.
To make matters worse, the locksmiths were apparently aghast when Mr. Tobias brough Mr. Blaze to the recent ALOA convention.
Mr. Blaze was made a parriah in the locksmith community for publicially publishing a fact that the industry has known for over fifty years. That secret? Simply that master keyed systems are inherently susceptible to decoding and manipulation, and by their very nature are basically less secure than non masterkeyed systems.
This uproar over supposedly secret information was so bad, that at least some locksmiths are questioning why Mr. Tobias wasn't censured by the ALOA for attending the HOPE convention, and for bringing Mr. Blaze to the ALOA conference.
The worst of this is that it really does inhibit the entrance of new people into the trade. In all honesty, while a great deal of 40 year old men and women are great business people, and great smiths, I would like to see more trust extended to younger people when they decide that this may be the career for them.
The average 20 year old can easily begin his or her career as an auto mechanic, but if that same 20 year old wants to be a locksmith, he is so often accused of being a wannabe thief that it sickens them right out of the trade.
I've seen and heard these accusations leveled at honest, sincere young men and women, and to be honest it disgusts me. That anyone can feel that they have the moral superiority to pass judgement upon anyone regardless of their age is reprehensible.
I'm tired of the idea that locksmithing is some sort of black art that can only be taught to those chosen few that somehow gain the rights of passage. And I am tired of the people who perpetuate this myth, and attempt to frighten honest hobbiests and potential new locksmiths.
I am sorry I misread what you said, I am terribly and deeply sorry if I have offended you, and I hope that this may have helped explain at least to some degree why I said what I did in the manner I said it.
Now, if you will all please excuse me, I am going to go lay on my bed for five minutes so I can at least honestly say I was in the bed sometime in the last two days.
Romstar
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