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Lock Picking Curriculum

Breaking Padlocks is all about learning how security works in the world around us… and how to break in. In the course we will be taking apart the mechanisms, both physical and digital, that keep us safe in our daily lives. In the first unit we will delve specifically into the art of lock picking. By the end of this unit each student will understand the way locks have changed over time, the principles that make them work and, most fun, how to pick them. In the second unit we will be doing a similar thing, only turning our eyes towards encryption and data security. We will be learning how our data is kept safe from hackers with algorithms and then learning how to beat those algorithms. At the end of the course each student will have the choice between focusing on cryptography or lock picking and complete a project that demonstrates their knowledge on the topic.


Learning Goals

  1. Learning 1

    1. By the end of the course each student will have a fundamental understanding of how digital and physical security systems in the world around them works.

  2. Learning 2

    1. By the end of the course each student will be able to pick locks with standard pins (The Master No. 2) and understand how more advanced security measures feel and why they work.

  3. Learning 3

    1. By the end of the course students will know the main flaws in online security and be able to break simple encryption.

    2. If the course has a CS requirement students will understand how to write their software with security in mind and will have written code that can solve word ciphers.


Unit 1 - Lock picking

Class 1 - Syllabus and Security in the world around us

Class 2 - Origins of Locks, Modern Lock Methods and picking guidelines

Class 3 - The Hairpin Lock and the concept of “Picking”

Homework 1 - “Lock picking Detail Overkill” up until “security pins” section

Class 4 - Hands on experience (order These)

Class 5 - Bypassing Locks and Alternatives to picking

Class 6 - Raking Locks

Class 7 - The Lock sport Community

Class 8 - Alternative mechanical “Locks”

Homework 2 - Finish “Lock picking Detail Overkill”

Class 9 - Security Pins and how to deal with spools

Class 10 - Pinning and assembly

Class 11 - Decoding Combination Locks

Class 12 - Show off what we've learned/accomplished


Unit 2.1 - Cryptography Concepts-

Class 12 - Importance of Cyber-security and historic hacks (learn history)

Class 13 - How does “Security” work on computers and encryption intro

Class 14 - Caesar Ciphers and other “simple” ciphers

Class 15 - Hashing both for security and dictionaries

Class 16 - RSA encryption

Class 17 - Block-chain


Mini Unit - How to Code (skippable if students know CS) (meet with Mr Fisher to discuss):

Lesson 1- Setup Python (or maybe Processing) and Hello World

Lesson 2 - Strings Ints booleans and floats

Lesson 3 - Lists Tuples and indexing

Lesson 4 - Vars Logic and loops

Lesson 4 - Libraries and importing


Unit 2.2 - Digital Security Implementation -

Class 18 - File IO (reading files)

Homework 3 - Read Brown Corpus and find the most common letter

Class 19 - How to Hash ord() and chr() and how to use

Homework 4 - Make a Hash function (potentially a Hash Table)

Final Project -

Class 20-22 - Work on projects

Class 23 - Show off projects





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lewisscaarroll
14 abr 2023

Lock pick techniques are not that easy to learn that's the reason locksmith experts have been called for help. They know all the lock pick techniques and can handle the lock problems without damaging or break the door locks. Those who are willing to join this business can make use of above shared information to learn lock pick techqnies.

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robertmasonon
15 nov 2021

Padlocks are not easy to break that's the reason i have contacted locksmith richardson tx to install these locks in my apartment.

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