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The Document Which Used To Be Called The MIT Lockpicking Guide

Which is too bad in a way. I thought it was a cool piece of urban folklore no matter where it came from, and it contributed to giving college students everywhere a reputation for healthy rebeliousness.

My original copy of this file was a text file zipped up with several GIF's. I have tried as much as possible to lay out this HTML version in such a way that it makes sense, but the GIF's that came with it were of poor quality at best. Where captions are cropped off, that is the way that they came to me. If you notice any errors, and I'm sure that they are there, please send me some e-mail so I can correct them.

If you prefer, the entire thing is available as a PDF file or the original zipped postscript that the PDF was generated from. The postscript is formatted for a4 paper, so some printers may have trouble printing it on letter. I have to appologize for the PDF -- all the fonts are rendered as 72 dpi bitmaps. They print great, but they don't look so hot on screen. They also make it impossible to search the document. If you don't understand what all that means, just get the PDF file and print it. I promise you'll be happy.

Nearly half of all the illustrations appear in chapter nine, so if that one takes a little while for your browser to fetch try to be patient.

Otherwise, enjoy the file. Oh, and good luck. :-)

- Akira

- Dave Ferret

MIT Guide to Lock Picking

Ted the Tool

February 14, 1992

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Copyright 1987, 1991 Theodore T. Tool. All right reserved.

Permission to reproduce this document on a non-profit basis is granted provided that this copyright and distribution notice is included in full. The information in this booklet is provided for educational purposes only.

August 1991 revision.

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