Thursday, January 31, 2013

Lock Picking as a Sport

     BBC News' Hackers turn to lock picking for sport interview several members of a Dutch lock picking club called Toool. This organization is all about learning how to pick locks for sport. The article gives a quick overview of what the club is about and some elements that make it unique. For example, the sport itself is more of a sit down activity, the participants preferring to use locks detached from doors. They also enjoy the challenge of picking a lock the hard way, so any new lock picking tools are usually avoided.

      This article is well written, and covers quite a lot for it's length. However, I think that they could have expanded a bit more on this topic, such as going into further detail about lock picking competitions. More detail in other areas would have helped quite a lot, and more statistics to go with the opinion.