Shane Lawson, an expert in many fields of security technology and one of our fellow lockpicking enthusiasts in the sportpicker/hobbyist community, was inspired by my Gringo Warrior setup to inspect the newest design of the Kwikset brand of locks.

What he discovered was astounding... practically none of us could believe him when he said how simple their "security" mechanism was and how it operated. This is a talk that he prepared to show us just how easily the new Kwikset Smart Series locks can be compromised.

While it's not an easy lock to pick, the Smart Series offers no real "high security" protection at all due to the fact that their hardware design leaks information and makes it trivial to decode the bitting combination (the exact details of the operating key) in a non-destructive and practically non-traceable way in only a couple of minutes.