[821] Kensington Notebook Computer Lock Picked FAST!

[kasuha]

In a company environment, the lock is protecting the employee, not the notebook. If your notebook was locked, it's not your fault if it got stolen.
Most of the time the thief will cut the cable anyway. 70 mm impressioning tool is way too specialized equipment.

[JohnLeePettimoreIII]

1:25 Pick enters lock
1:28 Lock is open

Shameful.

[GTOFan]

What I've learned from this channel...locks are a deterrent, not a solution.

[two_tier_gary_rumain]

I got the impression you weren't trying very hard.

[aliozanerbektas]

These locks are design to be used in stores and malls, places like that, so it only needs to be mediocre at best. They are mostly for deterring purposes.

[stevePHXD]

I'd say the practical difference is the you could carry the impressioning tool more easily and less suspiciously. You could walk up to the unattended be laptop and pretty much look like you're opening it with a key

[johnbouttell]

Dear Lock-picking Lawyer, if such a thing exists, please show us a lock you can't pick. Thank you.

[PaulKeppler]

I used to sell computers at Best Buy and we attempted to secure the Mac Laptop table with these locks. People were able to simply snap the locks off the laptops. the teeth that expand inside the laptop are far too fragile and break. Might make a good 2nd video on this lock.

[eagerbob]

Saying that the fact that an impressioning tool works at this lock is a "little bit disappointing" is 
a "little bit of an understatement".

[thomasdarby]

When I worked at a large public school as a bus driver a few years ago, our office had been broken into over the weekend and several computers, hard drives, and monitors were taken. Most had Kensington locks. However, none of them were picked, or the cables cut. Somebody had simply used a large pair of channel-lock pliers (found at the scene) to twist the lock out of it's hole. Sure, it damaged the computer a bit, but thieves like that were going for the components so didn't care about cosmetic damage. So it was quick; they attacked the weakest link. A month later, with new computers, they tried again... but were caught because of a silent alarm system and hidden cameras.

[anthropophagus]

I've gotten my hands on two of these locks recently, one of them has keys, and the other one doesn't, I was naively thinking I could easily cut some keys for these, but I didn't realize the long protrustion on the tubular key is actually a very necessary component. I tried to pick it open with the impressioning tool, and while that worked, it immediately locked up after a single pin rotation. I removed the impressioning tool to see that the place that's normally covered up in the neutral position now had a driver pin sticking up. And in normal tubular locks, that gap is not there, but with these kensington locks, the protrusion from the key is supposed to sit at the sheerline at all times to prevent the driver pin in whatever position from pushing up past the sheerline!
I retried a couple of times with both my locks picking manually, and it happens every time. So does that mean that with an impressioning tool, you might be able to open one, but if you fail to rotate it two positions it will lock itself and won't be openable with an impressioning tool? the only way I was able to get movement in the lock again was by manually pushing that driver pin back in.
This also means I can't cut my own keys for this lock sadly! Since I don't have any key blanks with that protrusion, nor would such a key fit into the key cutter I have...

[PsychoIoy]

How hard is it to break the part that actually locks into the computer... or the computer case around that part? I never thought these things looked particularly secure.

[JackdeDuCoeur]

But will it stand up to a stale Dorito?

[MrMattNoir]

Kensington makes also combo locks. Can be unlocked with NO skill under 5 minutes by feeling...tried multiple times and started when colleagues changed another colleague's combo, so I just tried and now I can unlock it under 3 minutes after just several tries :)

[Hirnlappen]

That moment of shock when you see a lock that you're using on LPL's channel....
I knew it would serve as a short deterrent at most but *arrgh*

These were designed for offices that people had no permanent desks they hot desk, so if you have to use the bathroom you could lock your laptop while being away from the desk a few minutes. However with the correct tool the laptop could be taken before you even washed your hands.

[Pipandahalf]

That literally made me laugh out loud, it was so comically fast and you made it look so easy

[jameshall]

it took longer to attach the lock to the laptop than to pick it

[BraveUlysses]

I single pin picked one of these at work last weekend. The “pin” or detenti at position zero slowed me down quite a bit. I didn’t realize it was there initially. If I had watched this video beforehand, I would have noticed the extra long protrusion on the key.

I would have like to see you single pin pick this. I think you know we like watching use your skills.

[SkuldChan]

Can confirm - have thousands of these locks at the University I work at and the few times a machine has been stolen they just clipped the cable.