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RE: Warning...
It's a good article..and it is handy to know..had I known this when I was about 12, I wouldn't have had to use other means to get in the house the time I locked myself out that involved paying for a new window.... No cell phons in 1975, and my mom hadn't yet thought about leaving a spare key with her parents, who lived down the street.
Of course, I could have just stayed there until she got home, but they wouldn't have let me watch cartoons..
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RE: Warning...
... seen warnings about the legality before when I looked into learning how to pick locks ...
I remember sometime around '96 my Dad walked out and announced we were connected to the Internet, showed me what Netscape was and how to put an address in the top. I remember just staring at it since a search page was not a default thing at the time and I had no idea what to do or look for on the Internet - just that it was a thing.
Suddenly, it popped into my head, "all the information in the world, eh? How do you pick a lock?" And that was the first thing I ever learned to do from the Internet.
But like you said, everything was blanketed in warnings about not knowing your local law and not being held liable for what you do, blah blah blah. It was enough that I never bothered actually trying it until nearly five years had passed. I even had the picks and never used them. It was really somewhat anti-climactic after I succeeded, too. There was a moment of "cool - I can do that" and then ... "now what?" Other than being used a couple of times when keys were lost, they pretty much stayed forgotten in a drawer until earlier this week when I pulled them out to make the video for the article.
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