Lock Bumping now "Lock Panic"?
The following article is, without a doubt, the best researched, evenly written, calmest, balanced, and honest article I've seen on lock bumping yet.I'm working on permission to post it here in its entirety, but in the meantime, please click through and read it, for your own peace of mind. :)
"'Bump keys' raise alarm"
Joe Lambe
Kansas City Star
On another note...
A portion of an e-mail from a UK Master Locksmith regarding the subject:
Hi Kim,
I've just read your comments on (your blog); very refreshing.
I'm a UK based master locksmith with 30 years in. I have been monitoring with some dismay the total rubbish that is spreading rapidly across local TV stations in the US regarding bumping. It appears to me to be a coordinated effort on behalf of certain manufacturers using the fear of crime to promote their products.
I agree, and it's why I write about it. It does a disservice to the very people whom we're supposed to helping feel secure in their own homes. Based on the panic, at the end of the day, people will have excellent locks, at a very high price, with strict limitations, and still be no more secure from break-in's than they were before. Just relatively secure from bumping, which accounts for a fraction of a percent of all break-in's anyway. :)
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