This story first appeared in WIRED 13.02 published in February, 2005. For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard ...

If it wasn’t for a bet George Hill made with his father as a 12-year-old boy over a string of intertwined padlocks, the Lock Museum of Orange County might not exist today along a busy thoroughfare in ...

He’s used plastic zip ties, bamboo sticks and even cat food cans to open the locks dangling from gym lockers and storage sheds across the US. Bill Johnson is now attracting a global following thanks ...

A century ago, Harry Soref had an idea for a new product: a tough but affordable lock. The Russian, Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant approached family and friends in Milwaukee and asked if they would ...

After nearly 15 years of partaking in locksport, the hobby of overcoming locking systems, David Seidl quickly points out he isn’t much better at it now than he was when he started. What locksport has ...