Now the brand of this lock is not clear.

I'm told by a Chinese national that the writing on the side says big lock, but also that the nuances lost in translation.

The symbol on the bow of the K apparently is a vague good luck pattern, so that's not very helpful either.

But what I do know for sure is that this padlock has a very unusual key.

It engages pins on three different sides and his vaguely bowtie and shape.

Now this might be intimidating to a picker at first glance, but upon closer examination, we find quite a few ways to defeat this padlock very quickly.

The first is to use a padlock shim like this, which I am certain will work.

However, this is a borrowed lock, and I don't want to risk damaging that rubber.

But that's okay because there is another bypass that is even faster.

You see whomever put this together?

Failed lock design 101 where they would have learned to shield the back of the key way that prevents someone like me from sticking a tool all the way through the key way and directly manipulating the locking mechanism.

And that's exactly what we can do here.

I can reach down.

Just pushed aside one of the locking lugs.

Let's go get the other just that quickly.

We got it open.

In addition to this, and despite that intimidating looking mechanism, it can also be picked fairly rapidly.

Let's get some tension in there and I'm not even going to single pin pick it.

I'm just going to use this wave rake on each of the banks of pens.

Okay, that's the one on the left, the one on the right, the top bank back to the left, and we got it open.

So while this lock certainly is interesting and it has a pretty cool looking K, it's not something that provides even more than a token level of security.

In any case, that's all I have for you today.

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