Editing Lock picking (section)

== History ==
[[File:Löffelholz-Codex Ms-Berol-Germ-Qu-132 Fol 028v–029r.png|thumb|Various lock picks and tools for opening and picking locks from the Codex Löffelholz, Nuremberg 1505]]
[[Lock (security device)|Locks]] by definition secure or fasten something with the intention that access is possible only with the matching key. Despite this, criminal lock picking likely started with the first locks. Famed locksmith [[Alfred Charles Hobbs]] said in the mid-1800s:
{{Quote|Rogues are very keen on their profession and know already much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew a good deal about lock-picking long before locksmiths discussed it among themselves...<ref>A. C. Hobbs (Charles Tomlinson, ed.), ''Locks and Safes: The Construction of Locks.'' Published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 (revised 1868).</ref>}}

Professional and recreational lock picking also has a long history. King [[Louis XVI of France]] (1754–1793) was a keen designer, picker, and manipulator of locks,<ref>Andress, David. "The Terror", Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005, p. 12-13</ref> and physicist [[Richard Feynman]] picked locks for fun in the 1940s while employed on the [[Manhattan Project]].  The tradition of student [[roof and tunnel hacking]] at [[MIT]] included lockpicking,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/www/stock-answers/lockpicking-guide |title=From rei@MIT.EDU Fri Jul 14 14:23:49 1995 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=[[Mit.edu]] |access-date=September 19, 2017 |quote=Executive Summary: The MIT Hacking community is saddened by the series of recent events which have made the "MIT Guide To Lockpicking" available electronically in a indiscriminate fashion.}}</ref> and their guide to this was made widely available in 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.csail.mit.edu/custo/MITLockGuide.pdf|title=MIT Guide to Lock Picking|date=September 1, 1991|website=People.csail.mit.edu|access-date=November 23, 2017}}</ref>

Beginning in 1997<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lockpicking.org/SSDeV/hist@eng.php|title=SSDeV - The world's first sport lockpicking group - founded 1997 in Germany|website=Lockpicking.org|access-date=November 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122110540/http://lockpicking.org/SSDeV/hist@eng.php|archive-date=January 22, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> more organized recreational lockpicking has now grown and developed a competitive aspect in "[[locksport]]", along with its own governing body, Locksport International.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=688464&page=1|title=Lock Picking for Sport Cracks the Mainstream|date=January 7, 2006|website=ABC News|access-date=November 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/files/hobbyists_embrace_the_joys_of_picking_locks.pdf|title="Hobbyists embrace the joys of picking locks"|website=Blogs.kansascity.com|access-date=November 23, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212231633/http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/files/hobbyists_embrace_the_joys_of_picking_locks.pdf|archive-date=February 12, 2012}}</ref>