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LockPicking101 Continued Growth
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As of of today (11/23/2006, Thanksgiving Day in the United States) Lockpicking101.com has grown to over 26,000 members. Below is a chart showing the recent growth of Lockpicking101:
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Notice that membership has accelerated significantly in the last 3 months. The cause of this rapid growth is both an increased awareness about lock picking as a hobby and recent publicity over the security concerns raised by such techniques as ‘bumping’.
w00t!
No question all the media attention has had an influence. At the same time that we’ve seen LP101′s numbers jump the LSI site’s hits have skyrocketed too. In particular, in the last 4 months we’ve seen several pretty high-profile media outlets talk about our hobby – much of it a spinoff from one little Associated Press blurb that came out of DefCon.
Though not everyone is all that thrilled, I couldn’t be more pleased. So many people that have never even though of the hobby of locksport are getting introduced to it. Good times.
Thanks for keeping track and making the graph. Very cool to see!
Cheers!
Josh Nekrep