Practical Lock Picking: A Physical Penetration Tester's Training Guide

By Deviant Ollam

Practical Lock Picking, 2nd Edition is presented with rich, detailed full-color diagrams and includes easy-to-follow lessons that allow even beginners to acquire the knowledge they need quickly. Everything from straightforward lock picking to quick-entry techniques like shimming, bumping, and bypassing are explained and illustrated. Whether you're being hired to penetrate security or simply trying to harden your own defenses, this book is essential. This edition has been updated to reflect the changing landscape of tools and tactics which have emerged in recent years

• Detailed full-color photos make learning as easy as picking a lock
• Companion website is filled with indispensible lock picking videos
• Extensive appendix details tools and toolkits currently available for all your lock picking needs

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Release date: Nov 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781597499903

Deviant Ollam

Deviant Ollam's first and strongest love has always been teaching. A graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Science, Technology, and Society program, he is always fascinated by the interplay that connects human values and social trends to developments in the technical world. While earning his BS degree at NJIT, Deviant also completed the History degree program federated between that institution and Rutgers University. While paying the bills as a security auditor and penetration testing consultant with The CORE Group, Deviant is also a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. division of TOOOL, The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers. Every year at DEFCON and ShmooCon, Deviant runs the Lockpick Village, and he has conducted physical security training sessions at Black Hat, DeepSec, ToorCon, HackCon, ShakaCon, HackInTheBox, CanSecWest, ekoparty, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. His favorite Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are, in no particular order, the 1st, 2nd, 9th, and 10th.

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Reviews for Practical Lock Picking

[Thomas · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A little dated, but very in depth and entertaining to read if you're into this sort of thing. HIGHLY recommend this book.

[davidpwhelan_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The whole concept of locksport or the competitive, hobby activity of picking locks was totally unfamiliar to me until I read Robert Vamosi's book - When Gadgets Betray Us - that discussed gadgets and technology and its vulnerabilities. It mentioned Deviant Ollam and included a lengthy discussion of the vulnerability of locks. After reading about Ollam, I decided to see what was available as an introduction to lock picking.Lo, and behold, Mr. Ollam has a how-to guide on lock picking. As the title states, the emphasis is on the practical side. This book is ideal for the novice locksport, for the curious, but also for those who are involved in physical security. The text is informal and easy to understand. I was a bit wary when approaching the subject but there are so many diagrams and designs that it was not long before I had the difference between driver and key pins completely clear in my head.The interesting thing to me was how useful the information is from a personal privacy standpoint. I finished the initial chapters that talked about key bitting and how the depth of the key notches are sometimes written on your key with a number. I pulled out my house key and there was a 5 digit number, which makes it easy for a locksmith to replace my key. Or someone else to figure out how each digit corresponds to a pin in the lock and speed access to picking it! That is what I liked about this text. By the end, I understood much more about what my keys and locks represented as well as the things I should look for in purchasing locks for my house or business. I thought of Simon Singh's The Code Book as I read Ollam's lock picking information. The books themselves are completely different in tone and scope but both deal with the explanation of a security measure and then the development of a countermeasure. That countermeasure is then itself countered, and so on. Ollam walks you through the basics of lock picking, the developments by lock makers of key channels that inhibit picking, of specialty key and driver pins to inhibit picking, and then techniques the locksport community have developed for getting around those improvements.This is an interesting book in many ways, and whether you are thinking about locksport or just curious about those things that protect your house and office, it is worth reading.

[carlos · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

i loved it too good hope you like it too

[Octogen_HMX · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is good book for new starter, It's contain a lot of practical.