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Lock Bumping Key

Lock Bumping Key

The lock bumping key has been around for a while now. Locksmiths in Denmark shared a technique for knocking or bumping on a lock cylinder while applying slight presure to the back of the lock plug. When the pins jump inside the lock cylinder, the plug is able to slide out freely and disassemble the lock quickly. The use of a lock bumping key was not introduced until some time later and was first recognized as a potential home security or lock security issue around 2002-2003 in Europe.

This internet has given lock picking hobbiest and theafts easy access to lock bumping keys and lock bumping how to’s. You can now find videos on:

• how to make a lock bumping key
• how to us bump keys
• bump key how to make
• how to bump key a lock
• how to make a bump key from blank

It is just amazing what people are learning online. When I first learned about lock bumping there where only a few sites out there that you could get information from. But that has all changed now.

For more information on the lock bumping key you can visit this public website on lock bumping at Lock Bumping .org

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Kwikset Bump Key

Kwikset Bump Key

Bump keys can unlock around 90% of the doors in America. Each lock manufacture is essence will have it’s own bump key. For instance if your door has a kwikset lock then only a Kwikset bump key will work on a kwikset lock.

A Kwikset bump key is pictured below:

For more information on lock bumping and bump keys you can visist this public website at Lock Bumping .org

Top 5 Bump Keys

Think you and your family are safe and sound when your front and back doors are locked. Well you better think again!

Top 5 Bump Keys
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Lock bumping and the use of bump keys has changed the game of lock security. Nearly every door to every home in every neighborhood can be unlocked or opened in a matter of seconds with virtually no noise via a bump key. Over 90 percent of all doors in America use a pin tumbler lock which is vulnerable to lock bumping. This locking system is so old and outdated that it was patented during the civil war. Lock bumping as it is now called was first discovered during the 1970’s by a small circle of locksmiths in Denmark. However that was then and this is now. With the advent of the internet it was only a matter of time before the technique of lock bumping and the use of bump keys to open our doors would reach America. There is a solution and to protect yourself and your family against bump keys. Lock-Smiths say that you should update your old locks with high security locks. For more information on lock bumping and how to protect you against it, visit our site lock bumping .org.

Lock Bumping Keys

According to the Internet and network news, our homes and personal security are now threatened by a new menace—“ lock bumping keys.” Unlike master keys that are fabricated by locksmiths to fit a series of locks, lock bumping keys can be made and used by criminals with little or no training. A lock bumping key is a normal key filed down so that it can slide into any keyhole it fits. Most household locks are held fast by pins that pass between the body of the lock and the cylinder that turns the bolt. Each pin is actually two stacked sections held down by a spring. The sheer, where the sections meet, varies in height along the three or more pins in a lock. To work, a key must lift each pin so that all their sheers and the sheer between the cylinder and the lock meet. This allows the cylinder to turn freely in the lock and withdraw or extend a bolt. Unlike a “pick” that involves teasing each pin to its sheer level and requires training and practice to use, a lock bumping key is supposed to accomplish the same thing by hammering a ground-down key and twisting open the lock during the brief instant the tops of all the pins fly up.

Lock Bumping Security Threat

If you are reading this then you have been turn on to the threat of lock bumping. Here is a little history about it. In the 1970’s, locksmsiths from Denmark shared a technique of knocking or lock bumping as it is now called on a lock cylinder while applying slight pressure to the back of the lock plug. When the pins inside the lock cylinder jump up for that split second, then the plug inside the lock is able to slide freely and disassemble the lock quickly. The use of the lock bumping key was not introduced until some time later and was first recognized as a potential home security issue around 2002 and 2003 in Europe. However with advent of the interenet the word has gotten out to the rest of the world.

There are some preventative mesaures that the locksmiths say you can do.

1. increase the outside lighting around your doors
2. buy more expensive high security locks
3. spray lock lubricant in your locks
4. get home security alarm
5. get a dog

For more information on lock bumping you can visit our public webiste at Lock Bumping .org. Here you will find a lot more information on lock bumping along with lock bumping keys and lock bumping hammers which is used to hit the key once it is in the lock.

Lock Bumping Keys and Bump Key Resistant Locks

It looks like there is a few lock solutions to lock bumping. You can buy yourself a new high security lock. It seems that no lock is fully bump proof but these locks below make it a lot harder for the average joe to bump the lock.

Bump Resistant Locks:

• Schlage Primus
• MultiLock
• Kiwkset
• BiLock
• Medeco

Deadbolt Knob Stopper:

• Lock Jaw

Also a good thing to do to your current lock is spray some Lock Lubricant or WD40 into it. The lubricant will make the springs and pins move a lot faster with create less resistants thereby having them fall back into place so that they don’t stay up in the cylinder which allows it to then turn or open.

Lock Bumping Keys