Today I was purveying the wares on eBay (purely for research purposes, I don’t have an eBay addiction, I could stop anytime I want, really). And noticed that this week (like many weeks out of the year) a wealth of information is available to the budding Safe Technician (or Safe Cracker, depending on your purposes).
Now, I must say that eBay tries to run a tight ship. For instance, they don’t allow lock picks to be sold on their service. However more obscure and complicated stuff, like safe and vault supplies & information, falls outside of their bans. Although unintentional, this is the equivalent of prohibiting the sales of handguns, but allowing bazookas.
As an example, here is everything you need to learn the (nearly) secret art of Manipulation (finding out the combination of a safe, just by moving the dial), including two practice locks:
LockMaster’s Manipulation Course With Practice Locks
If you are more into physical attacks on safes (i.e. drilling and drill points) you should check out some of these excellent books by various Safe & Vault experts:
Dave McOmie Penetration Party Book
The National Locksmith’s Guide To Safe Openings
Dave McOmie’s ‘Ask Dave’ Q&A Book
Of course, my purpose of posting these here is not for your shopping convenience (these items will be long-gone in a week, anyway) but to point out that the Internet has fundamentally changed the availability of once secret and proprietary information.
In short, anyone interested in the physical security field needs to realize that the playing field has been altered, radically.
