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by IshKebab 160 days ago
> brute force all possible combinations

Somewhat less impressive than I was expecting. The wire idea is neat though.

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I felt the opposite. Sometimes figuring out a clever way to make the “dumb” thing possible is very impressive.
The next step is to train an ML model on all videos of the lockpicking lawyer and it'll get a click out of one, three is binding every time.
Human lockpickers use feedback when picking. I'm wondering if a bot could do the same - e.g. measuring the travel distance to find a binding pin, or the resistance to moving the wire?
> Human lockpickers use feedback when picking.

Or discover when locks are built really badly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeDcOhWvq7I

Possible, but to do it at the level of precision needed for lockpicking would be a very expensive piece of equipment.