Bosnian Bill approaches stuff from a EOD and Engineering standpoint first, the Locksport stuff is secondary. When he does destructive entry, such as very high end bike locks, it is done in a manner you would expect a engineer contracted to do the work would do for finding vulnerabilities. While some may exploit his findings, the general trend has for the last few hundred years to explore the vulnerabilities of high end, seemingly impossible to break security devices, so they can be improved. This requires shoring up networked, social intelligence of a larger community of enthusiasts.
Does it cause confusion and alarm? Yes. However, if we never did this, we never would of advanced out of ancient style locks.
Remember, lock smithing is only but a subfield of Poliorcetics- Siege Warfare. You gotta go back to classical works like the Greek Aeneas the Tactician "Defense of a Fortified City" or Chinese Mohists writings on building complex, ingenious fortifications. We evolved as a commercial subset, but many tools I possess for destructive entry aren't too different from what we used in the Infantry for breach teams. Admittedly, bit more bruteforce and destructive on the infantry end. You don't send in someone like I once was in with some wicked axes to break down doors if your clearing a room for a valued guest to sleep in, making sure everything is safe.
Bosnian Bill approaches things with much more control and finesse (usually, I recall a certain Banana) than I would. Its why I value watching his videos. Learned picking a medeco is very, very hard from him. Learned some locks are complete crap.
This isn't unethical at all, is intact default Ethics. Ethics is more than just a system of A Priori, Axiomatic rules to follow, Ethics also asserts a Why. You'll see this in classical works on Ethics, to give scope and vital reason to any given logic, why it is a imperative. This us exactly what Aeneas the Tactician did, he went through every vulnerability that can befall a city under siege. He basically taught how to do it all, but he also made it possible to compentently defend against them as well, by explaining how the imperatives link to "How".
Why and How is hard wired, stemming from " Where" and "What", its a diverging thought processes in the mind, but mutually reinforcing as well when it recombines.
You can process concepts like "Categorical Imperatives", and make it law (or like a law) " One should universally never do this", but that's a process that already assumes a permanent identity for a object or idea, that is universally always arrived at each and every time, regardless of circumstance, from the divergent "What-Where Dichotomy", and impedes the " How Why". Makes examining "How" difficult, and "Why" nearly sacrilegious. Creates a unnecessary bar to progress and development.
Bosnian Bill is hardly in the wrong for exploring bad vulnerabilities. I would in general recommend not fighting tooth and nail to publish for free on YouTube how to break into the hardest known quality locks using absurd complicated genius techniques just to show off your genius- true, criminals are really smart, but you don't have to invent something previously unthinkable to aid them. But if it is obvious people can exploit it with common attacks, or you discover a absurd shortsighted flaw people seem to be exploiting, then it makes full sense to go the classic route. Locksmiths do need to know how to get in and destroy locks as well, and nobody ever established a universal monopoly on that education, it has always been open source, even in war.
You only rely on categorical imperatives with novices. When you get someone who understands rules in relation to ethics, rewards and punishments, risk assessments and information flow.... some knowledge circumstantially still remains restricted, but a lot flows out.
I was just a grunt infantry paratrooper, but I own manuals on blowing up bridges, destroying tanks with grenades. medical manuals, engineering works, stuff on explosives, etc. Why should some guy who collected that stuff as a private need to know? It was realized a long time ago most people who get that data aren't the ISIS or Criminal type, proof is in the ISIS training videos, proof they refuse to read out manuals, so many blunders and mistakes. Ones reading it are people more like myself or perhaps you.
I do agree with this site's emphasis on keeping a lot of info shielded from a quick google search. I got a long crowbar..... not gonna discuss all the things I can do with it to some crook brainstorming. Bosnian Bill targets vulnerabilities your more advanced crooks already target. Only reason these locks work and are worth the cost is from centuries of competitive pressures to evolve better responses to crime. But I can't blame people from wanting to point out just stabbing a empty ballpoint pen in a bicycle lock opens them. Does it enable crime? Yes, but it prevents far more. People ditch it, lock gets redesigned. If your lock is so crappy a kid with next to nothing can bust in, then it is no good. Needs replaced.
Crooks are always probing vulnerabilities. They don't post videos explaining the faults. Forensics might. How large of a percentage do locksmiths come across in the aftermath? Half? A third? People replace their own locks, doors, door frames. Word has to get out to start that creative feedback loop that causes a revaluation of engineering and materials. That is Bosnian Bill's best service to society. Teaching us how to pick something is only second.
If anyone wants to chitchat further on Ethics and Military History, or philosophy in general, feel free to ask me. I specialize in it when I'm not learning the basics of locksmithing, bit of a obsession with me. Bosnian Bill has been always in the right so far. Well.... that time he checked out his pistols for the gun range to shoot locks might be a ethics violation, but one no ethics office for the CIA or FBI would ever care about, think they would say cool video. How much did those rounds cost? I think government looses more in waste from people throwing paper airplanes in the office than instruction videos showcasing bullets shot on youtube. Was a intriguing question, we all learned something.
His Vanlock 'pick' was nothing short of hilarious and the list of locks that completely befuddle him is long. He wont even attempt many more because he knows they are above his pay grade. Stop lionising mediocrity, ffs.
