If your home has a lot of interior doors that lock, sooner or later, you’re bound to lose the key or lock it inside the room (if the door even has a key), or discover your toddler has locked ...

Before you can defeat a lock, you need to know how it works. When you slip a key into a lock, its ridges push up on a series of small pins running into a cylinder.

Then there’s “rocking,” which involves an “L Rake” pick that kind of looks like a key in itself. If you rock the pick back and forth while the wrench keeps the lock turned, eventually it ...

To pick a lock, you simply need to insert a pick and push the pins into place so that the upper, blue part clicks into place outside of the cylinder. This will allow the cylinder to turn freely ...

Crooks have found another way to pick your lock. Here's how to stop them. When Katie Robinson showed up at the Twisted Apron restaurant after a call from her alarm company, she found a hole in the ...