Foil Impressioning: Lock-Picking Technique That Uses the Lock to Form a New Key

From Boing Boing:

Here's a fascinating post on "foil impressioning" -- a simple lockpicking technique that uses the lock itself to fashion a working key out of soft aluminium tape. You just stick a key loaded with this stuff into a lock and wiggle it around in a special way and the lock opens itself.

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