It was a great talk, up until the point where I got bumped. Who was here at one o'clock to see my talk then, and you came back, I love each and every one of you. You know, I actually live with this guy, so that scares me a lot. It's good to see that half the audience is actually friends of mine, that's cool. It makes me feel special. Okay, this is a lockpick demo here. I'd like to first apologize publicly to my cohorts here, because on the schedule it says more lockpicking virus. It doesn't mention Gurney, Steve, or Hobbit. I am so sorry, guys. Bitch. Whatever.  Every single one of these guys is just incredibly talented. So next year, when we do this talk, I guarantee their names will be on the list. That's where you'll applaud. Okay. I can't stand being up there. Just jump down. I aim for the cup and I hit it. Okay. Just curious, does anyone actually in the audience have any handcuffs? Raise your hand. With you. With you. Mom, put your hand down, okay? All right. All right. I was going to see if I could display. It's kind of funny. I was at H2K up in New York. Anybody else went to H2K in New York? That was a lot of fun. I did a virus talk up there. I'm going to be doing the virus talk tomorrow here at 1 o'clock, hoping that I don't get bumped. I would really like you guys to show up for the virus talk.  Yeah, cool stuff. It is a bad thing, actually. It's a very, very bad thing. All right, so no one here has handcuffs. What type of a hacker convention is this? What's wrong with you people? How quickly?  Karen's won't work. They're not police regulation. Sorry. Never mind. I don't know. Don't sweat it. We got a pair of handcuffs here. They're just kind of stiff. You know, last year when we did this talk, I said, who has handcuffs? Half the audience was like, ooh. I got handcuffs. It's like, for the demo. Oh, sorry. Okay. You bought the handcuffs with you? I'm the warm-up, by the way, for the actual show. So, yeah. I'll be performing twice in Vegas this weekend. Thank you very much. Hey, it's true, too. Rock. Okay, these are standard handcuffs here, except that they're black and the police have the silver ones. Now, show of hands. Who was at my, at the Lockpick demo last year? Okay, so you're going to hear the same damn speech, but most of you guys haven't heard this. What I'm going to show you about picking handcuffs is literally for entertainment value only.  If anyone with a badge puts you in a handcuffs, do not pick your way out. I mean, it sounds like a joke, but I know some of you want to do it. For God's sakes, don't do that, all right? Because if you're only being picked up for questioning and you pick your handcuffs, this is not a joke to them, okay? It's like, if you get pulled over for speeding and you try to run away, now you're definitely going to jail, okay?  This is actually just for entertainment values. I actually got into lockpicking and handcuffs. Well, I got into handcuffs for other reasons, but that's none of your business. I got into picking different locks because I was a professional magician for 15 years. I performed actually all over the country, including here in Vegas. Thank you. So in that 15 years, I actually learned on how to improv picks. I'll give you right now everybody take notes who's got pens. I'll tell you exactly the picks you should carry with you that you will not get in trouble for right now. Ready for the list? It's a long one. There is no waiting. All right, a paperclip. A Leatherman. Thank you. That's it. That's all you need. A paperclip, a Leatherman, I can get you 75% of the locks. Who's going to bust you for a paperclip? Nobody. Who's going to bust you for having a Leatherman? Nobody, but your mom. I just carry the paperclip on my belt loop right here. It's just a paperclip. Carry the Leatherman in my pouch. Cool, no big deal. If I want to show off to my friends, which I actually don't do that often, thank God, or they wouldn't be my friends, you just unfold the paperclip, unfold your Leatherman, bend it up, bend up the tip, so you have a small little pick area.   It's not very good for raking, because when you rake a paperclip, it bends too much. Honestly, don't use a smaller paperclip. You want the heavy, heavy-duty paperclips. You know what I want? There's a real thick metal paperclips. They're fantastic.  Come here, niece. I know, I love this part of the job. This is another roommate of mine.  I said I want you to touch my butt. She knows my wife, too. Okay. These are the common picks used for handcuffs. It's a very, very thin piece of spring steel metal. About that long for the visuals here. They're very flexible, and they're actually not just good for picking handcuffs. You can actually use these for tension bars and actually picking other locks. They're very, very good. I'm going to show you how you use them to pick handcuffs.  Well, I'm glad you asked. If you ever see a street sweeper going down the street, follow it. These are the bristles. These are the bristles of the street sweepers. They snap off all the time. If you walk about three or four blocks, you can usually pick up about six or seven bristles. That's all you need. Now, for the handcuffs, these are just snapped off. Literally, these are like, I call, raw picks. This one's actually been bent into a tension wrench. What you'll do with these is, if you find them not fitting into the handcuffs very well, when I show you how they actually work, you can file down the edges about halfway, file half of it down just a little bit, like on a grinding stone, to make it a little bit thinner. The width for these are absolutely perfect. Who can tell me the absolute best pick for our pair of handcuffs, aside from these? Anybody? Aki. When I was doing magic shows, I could hide about 500 picks on my body, and you'd be lucky if you found about four or five of them. Now, for the demonstration of where you hide the picks. Nis, can you stand up on the stage, hon? This is Nis' butt. Okay. Can you please show it to the people this way? Oh, I love this view. Okay. The thin metal hides well, and also is very pliable. So what you could do is behind the seams, and behind the loops here, you can hide picks everywhere. Anywhere there's a seam, you can hide one of these picks. Here, multiple ones, along the side. All you have to do is make a, especially this type of a pant, these types of seams. It's a double stitch. This is actually a little hollow inside. If you just tear up the jeans a little bit so they look worn, people don't notice the little hole that this pick slid right into. Ah. I see little light bulbs going on. Oh, I never thought of that. Well, I got paid to think about that. Put them down the sides here, when they're long pants all the way down. You could put tons of these things all over the place. Do not go to the airport and try to get through security. I left a show. I had to catch a plane. I had all the picks on me, and I had to explain to them why I had 32 keys for handcuffs, all these little pieces of wire, and I was pulling them out one by one. I was like, oh, I got this one here, and I got this one here, and I'm putting them on the laser game, and I have 30 pounds, okay? Yeah, and don't go swimming, okay? Just a safety tip. On the belt loops here, always, always, always wear a belt, okay? It's great for hiding things.  Yeah, see, that's what I'm doing to stop. I'm progressing the art. Okay. If you have someone search you for the entertainment value and try to find the picks, it's a lot more amazing when you actually get out of the handcuffs. Wear a belt. Wear the belt tight, not loose. You should be able to get your finger in here, okay? It should be uncomfortable for them to get their finger here, especially if they're lower, because I tell you right now, they're not going to want to put their finger behind the belt down here, okay? What I used to do on my pants, and she doesn't have as many loops as I have on mine, I have got like a whole bunch, I would actually sew a key behind every single belt loop all around me. And sometimes I would sew on extra loops. And then what I would do along the top edge here, ignore the underwear, I would also put sheet metal picks along the edges here, along here, down the sides, everywhere. It's kind of hard to put your pants on, because you lift them up and go, Jesus Christ. Now that's not the only place you can actually put picks. The pants is just the beginning. Your shoes can hold a ton of picks along the edges. Once again, your seams are your best friends, because when they patch you down, it's like, okay, whatever, no problem, I don't feel anything, it's no biggie. I love knees, too sweet. So all this stuff is usually oblivious.  And I would always keep it like a paperclip, just stuck right here in my back pocket and no matter what, I always left that there, because I always wanted them to go, hey, it's a paperclip, you could use this and pull it away. It's a paperclip out of my back pocket. I was like, whatever. Your shirt, wear a heavy shirt.  And the coolest thing that I heard of that just came out, or might have been out, who here has a pierced tongue? Raise your hand. Nobody has a pierced tongue at a hacker convention? Okay, one girl. Andies. Okay, and I know that too, duh. Not like you think. A friend of mine, B-String was telling me on the phone, he goes, dude, you got to check this out. Well, he has his tongue pierced, he's got a barbell.  Thank you, hand for me. Apparently, they sell the barbell for your pierced tongue. And this would probably work for any other type of piercings? Oh, it's a custom piece? Okay. It's a custom piece for the tongue. And what it is, is it's your little barbell, and if you get your hands up there, you can unscrew the top, and it's a handcuff key. And I'm going, hmm, get my tongue pierced. No, I get other places I hide it. But if you have your tongue pierced, that's like perfect. Who's going to say, let me see that barbell? You're going, these picks can be hidden anywhere. You got a hat, more places than I had the picks. All right, on to the explanation on how picks are worked. I played one of them. Can I have my microphone? God, we got three microphones. Let me have yours. So one other thing that occurred to us before this is that something that I've done from time to time to show where you can hide picks and how much fun you can have with it are lots and lots of very natural places to hide picks. For instance, there we go. Hidden within the beard. Doesn't work on me. You can also tuck them into the hair.  Very, very stylish. Basically, you know, you want to make it into anything that people aren't looking for. Very true. Glasses, when I was very young, I used to get out of handcuffs using my night brace. All sorts of things.  There's two different types of handcuffs.  And it's a ratchet style handcuff. You can buy handcuffs anywhere, people. Just make sure it's a ratchet style handcuff and not the one with the little circle pin thing there because you're not going to really learn how to pick with those. They're not the police regulation ones. You want to play with these. Also, the keyhole is designed with a piece of metal in the center. So it's very difficult to get a piece of metal inside there to actually pick it physically. So it was actually pretty well thought out until I got on the street sweeper and hey, there's a piece of metal and hey, let's try this. The way this works is it has a ratchet that comes down and grabs the teeth. Which keeps you from opening it. All right, that's point one. Neon, can I borrow you a second? I need you to hold the microphone down. Go away, Neon Rain. Okay. Thank you. The way these work is the inside of this has a series of four ratchets shaped like this. And what these do is they come down and they press down this whole section is on a spring and then they bounce up and catch the teeth. Very simplistic thing. The problem here is this is a spring. Now, these wonderful pieces of metal fit perfectly down here to where the springs are. They're also thin enough that they can get between this and the handcuff and actually press the spring down and then boom, this pops open. Now you're going, well, why isn't he demoing this? Because these are not police regulation handcuffs and we didn't grind these. So these don't fit very well in here. It makes it very, very difficult. I don't understand it. You can buy aftermarket handcuffs that are quote unquote police regulation type handcuffs and you actually have to modify these to pick those.  Which I don't understand. Because regular police regulation handcuffs, these work perfectly without any modifications. But when you buy them at the alternate toy shop, sometimes you have to file them down. Sometimes you do it. Also, most handcuffs aren't very well oiled when you buy them. You have to oil them to make sure the spring's done well. And police are always very notorious for keeping them very well lubricated. The handcuffs. Okay. Now the cool thing with these type of handcuffs is when you're in the handcuffs, you can twist your wrist to be able to move around to slide the bar down and open up the handcuffs. Great. Well, someone invented these.  Now the thing with the flat bar is the flat bar works great if it's a single lock handcuffs. Which basically means they jump in here and they can still be tightened again. Well, there's a little pan on the side of the handcuffs here that if they double lock the handcuffs, it actually locks that spring in the opposition. Which means that little flat bar doesn't do anything and you're back to a very small paper clip.  And the sewing needle I'll do is I'll bend the sewing needle and it'll fit perfectly inside the lock and it's easy. I'll actually make like a little Z with a sewing needle like this and I can actually put it inside the lock and turn it and actually pick the handcuffs directly that way. But with these you have no hinge. I'm sewing you. Oh, damn. You're good. Here, have a sewing needle. It was in my purse. No comment. But if you look here most of the picks and stuff are too thick to hand here and this slide's right in here and you can go all the way around as it stabs me in the finger wrong end, way to go. By the way, if you use a sewing needle, cut off the tip. It's just a safety thought. But it fits perfectly in here. So it's a lot easier to actually zoom around and actually pick. Sewing needles are great. Thank you. You can have it back. Stab me and I'm bleeding. That's wonderful. Now, I actually got locked up in one of these before and I was going to do an underwater escape which I will never, ever do again. If you ever see magicians doing underwater escapes and you're going, oh, that's not dangerous. He knows where he's going, uh-uh. I know a lot of professional magicians. I know David Copperfield. I know Harry Blackstone Jr. Penn Dragons, Penn and Taylor. I know a lot of these guys and I've talked to some of these people who've attempted. You notice you don't see the underwater illusions with the really big names. There's a reason. There's a lot of people who've nearly drowned on rehearsals. It's really, really dangerous.  I did not rehearse. And I said, hey, no sweat. I can hold my breath for four minutes. I was practicing and I know I can pick out, you know, pick these laps. No question that. All I asked was someone bring up a pair of handcuffs. Handcuff me in. I had my picks. I was ready to go. They doused me underwater and someone bought these. But hey, I've never seen those. Shouldn't be a problem. That was almost my famous last words. Literally.  And they're like this and you can't turn. You can't get to the lock. Also... You do have the key for this, right? These are triple locking handcuffs. Triple locking means that without the key, you are totally food-barred. Oh, here. Handcuff me, baby. Who's your daddy? All right. Now the problem here is when these are tied on the wrist, it's very difficult to grab anything and place it in here. I can't turn my wrist. On top of that, I couldn't get into the pick. And all I wanted to do and all I had with me was a single flat bar. This is when I started putting thousands of picks on my body right after this trick.  And I'm sitting there going I'm under water. I can't breathe.  I was smart enough to sit there and work out a signal with our stage hands that if I give this signal, it means I'm dying. I made sure to pay him in advance for the show, by the way. A really nice birthday. So I'm sitting there putting the signal and he's talking to some chick. I got bubbles coming out of my mouth and I'm stomping on the cage with one fist like this little bit. And he's sitting there like conceiving them offstage and they're going, so, how you doing? You want to be a magician's assistant? I'm not really a magician, but he is and he finally turned around and in the stage comes up and I'm going, sorry, can't do it. That was probably the most embarrassing time of my life. These are really, really hard to pick. Even with the lock on the other side they're very difficult to pick even with the needle. The hard.  You're going to be there for a while. Get me out. This is the other hard part. Thank you, Dan. So, okay. So questions on this portion of the talk? Can you explain that one? The triple walking portions of these? I only know about two of them. It ties me on that one, too, so. They have the, it automatically locks when you first put it down it makes the spring a lot more difficult to press down so that they can be tightened but it's harder to press the spring down. It automatically does that, so that's lock when, then you have the little press in button here and it forces the spring up and you can't get it through the, and it's lock, too. Also, actually maybe they're only double locking. I think they're only double locking. These are. The third ones I saw actually made it so this portion didn't bend. These do. The ones that I saw which are the triple locking ones, these are still a hinge and then you hit the other lock and it's a solid piece of metal and it's like, well, that sucks. A lot. The other thing with these locks are, just for the point, if you can get a pair of these to play with, they got smart on these. When you put the pry bar down here it's almost impossible to get it down less than a millimeter. So you can't even get the pry bar through here to get to the spring anyhow.  I've ground down some my files will play more like, hey, there's no metal left and I still can't get through. So it's a pain. Yes. Actually, I don't see a lot of police officers with them but the ones that have them like to use them a lot. The other thing that police officers like to use is zip ties. There are no picks. Get over it. I don't recommend zip ties when you're playing with somebody else either, by the way, because they're really, really dangerous to cut them off and I don't know about you but I'm really nervous about evening with a knife near my wrist especially if I've had to argue with them in the past two years. Question. What? Oh, thumb cuffs. Actually, someone was supposed to bring me some thumb cuffs because I was going to talk about those. Thumb cuffs actually are a lot like handcuffs because you can actually use the pry bar on them. They just hurt really, really bad as you're trying to wrist or move your wrist around because they actually have teeth on the inside that grip to your thumbs. So if you have sweaty thumbs, why you would have sweaty thumbs, I don't know, but if you have sweaty thumbs, it keeps them from coming off your thumbs. And thumb cuffs hurt a lot. So I've actually gotten out thumb cuffs once.  Demonstration time. Yay. This is the most popular part last year. I can get out. I'll recommend straight jackets in under 30 seconds. In this instance, he does have something up his sleeves. Here. I want to talk to you about questions. No, do I. I've done this already twice when my right shoulder's got sore. Don't try this at home. You guys have a problem? Yeah. Actually, you're not really born able to do that. When I was five years old, I fell out of a tree about a story and a half. I landed on the brick on my back, and I dislocated both shoulders at the same time. And since then, I'm able to do that. Unlike no kids, and yeah, it was worth it. Yeah, you try to get up when you can't move your arms.  But it doesn't hurt that bad to actually put them back in. It just makes your arms kind of sore like you've like lifted weights for like an hour and a half. Yes, sir. Yes, they do. Yes, they are metal. But you know what? They're not illegal. And really, it depends on how many you have with you in any given density. I've walked through carrying a fair number and they've never cared. Have they been infected? No, I had 200 on me. Plus keys. So, I had a lot of metal. Any other questions? And we're going to continue. Okay, what are street cleaning bristles? He missed the talk. This is a metal. These are the bristles from street sweepers. So, when a street sweeper walks by, just kind of follow it. Like, shh, thank you. Next, shh, thank you. These are actually gritties. Street cleaning bristles in most major cities are everywhere, but you're not really trained to see them. And once you start looking for them, they're everywhere. Well, they're dark and they blend in. They blend in with concrete. And if you start walking along the street just looking for pieces of metal like that, you'll be surprised how many you find. Yeah, that's kind of cool. If you walk barefoot, you find more. Alright, one more question. We're going to move on. You. Well, yeah, you can hide things on steel-toed shoes, but you can get them out.  But, you know what? You get the metal on your laces, too, and it's a lot easier, and you don't have to drill any holes. Because I'm going to go, because that wand just goes, you know, you can have anything there, and just kind of pick up the metal on the shoes anyhow. Belt buckles are my favorite. Oh, my God. And then fire. Pretty huge monster things. Wear a cowboy hat. Yeah.   I actually had a whole bunch of stuff there. I probably shouldn't have had on the airplane. Okay, go, and I went, oh, God. All right, we're going to continue on. That's my person at the top. Thank you. But I still get to sit up here. Do you want to start with that? This will be up in a moment. Let's start with the diagrams. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure. I didn't have to volunteer. That was cool. The board. We are. We are those of board. Okay, I guess we're going to talk about general lockpicking of tin tumbler type locks. And... I don't even know. We got this stuff up there. Probably would be nice to have pictures of the picks. Out there. Anyways, we'll go over some of the... We'll go over some of the... Okay. What a lock is composed of, tin tumbler type lock. I know the graphics are shitty, but deal. You tell her. Yeah. So we got... We're trying a laser pointer. Anyone got a laser pointer? Anyone got a laser pointer? I know. There must be some punk-ass kids with laser pointers. Hey, he's got one. Ask him. Can we borrow that? Can I borrow it? Ooh, and it's green. I'll get it back as it's mine now. I want it green. Thank you. This was just a social engineering experiment. I'll create you hands. It's handcuffs for them. Typical pin tumbler. Obviously a key. And we've got two sets of pins, actually. We've got the key pins because they touch the key. And the drive pins up here. And pushing all that down is a series of springs. When you insert your key, there are these ridges here. The pins fall into those ridges. And this is with the key in. But with the key out, you can see where the pins join here. They don't wind up on this line here, which is actually this area, which is called the plug. And when you put your key in and the key turns, you're turning the plug. That's what rotates. So when you put your key in, these sets of pins all lined up on this line called the shear line. And when those are lined up, then the plug is free to turn. And then the mechanism behind here will unlock the lock. Do you have pictures of? We've got some images of some pick tools. But basically when you're picking, since you don't have the key, you want to be able to create this line of pins lined up on the shear line. And what you do, and I don't know if I have better graphics. Okay. This one may be being out. I don't have a good graphic to show you how the process goes. But when the plug is turned and you have all these pins all in scattered positions, it's going to put some tension on the pins. Even though you may take a lock apart and you take a look, you see these series of holes where all the pins are, they're not all lined up exactly. There's some skewing of the holes for the pins. And that's the sort of defect that you're going to take advantage when you actually do your lock picking. You're going to actually depend on that for the picking. When you rotate the plug, it's combined first. And what you want to do is get these pins pushed up such that they do get to the shear line and then these drive pins because you're turning, get caught up inside up in this area. And if you can do that one by one and get all these drive pins caught up inside of the hole area up in here, then you'll be able to rotate the plug and open the lock. We've got some... Let's take a look at some of the tools here. So here's some of your basic tools. A lot of times you can pick a lock with a method called scrubbing or raking. And I often use a snake shaped tool which is this one. And in that, when you're doing scrubbing or raking, you're putting a light tension on the plug and scrubbing the pins back and forth with your rake tool. And that activity if you're doing it active enough will get all or very many of the pins stuck and you can open the lock. On some better locks that have better tolerances on them you may have to go in and pick the lock pin by pin and in that case you use a half diamond shaped tool or hook shaped tool and you'd actually go in put some tension on the plug and feel for the pins and then push them up one by one until you can get it open. Down here is your torsion wrench which goes into the keyway and that's what you're using to put tension on the plug. So that's kind of an outline of the mechanics and Steve why don't you go ahead and elaborate. The standard way that many of us have used to describe picking locks is that of a door with three doorknobs or some number of doorknobs more than you have hands.  The door can open toward you or away from you. If it opens toward you you are allowed to touch one knob at a time or now two knobs at a time, sorry if it opens away from you you're allowed to touch one knob at a time. How do you open the door? Now this will be your standard door where you turn the knob it retracts the bolt and the screen saver goes off. You'll turn the knob and retract the bolt. If you let go of the knob the bolt extends again. So the question is how do you open the door? Do we have any guesses? Over here. Exactly. And then you do what? Correct. Did everyone hear that? Okay. Come on up here. Okay. What he described is that you push on the door and you try each knob and you see which one retracts but doesn't actually re-extend fully. And then when you've done that you go to the next knob and try the same thing and basically by iterating through all of the knobs you're playing on the inefficiencies between the bolt matching up to the hole with the plug, yes. So you'll be rotating the plug and you're going to be searching for the first pin that is binding as you're applying pressure and rotating. Do you have any... Actually if we could go back to the picture of the plug over here. Sadly we only have one projector. By applying tension no, you're feeling it. This will take a moment because this is a very slow laptop. You went one word at a time, didn't you? Did you find the answer if you did not? It was tempest off for somebody else. So what you're doing when you're picking is what you're doing when you're picking is you're applying tension and then you're inserting the pick and you're feeling each pin and lifting it up and one of them will be binding and will be a lot stiffer than all of the others and so you're lifting that up until it's no longer stiff and you have now raised it above the shear line and it will cock just a little bit when you're very early on learning to do this won't even notice it's cocking and that will move it just a little bit forward and then you're moving to the next pin because you already picked one pin you'll do this for four pins, five pins, six pins and when you get to the last pin the lock will open. Any other questions back here? About how many It depends on the lock your standard master we don't actually have any of them here your standard master lock with a little blue band around it usually has four pins a lot of door locks to say your house or your apartment will have five or six pins in fact most office locks will have six a lot of universities will use a multi key system for masters, grandmasters great grandmasters, etc many of those will have seven pins so it really depends on where you're at, etc one of the things that you frequently should do early on is going there with your pick and feel, you should be able to feel and count how many pins you have so we have another question over here that is correct the comment was one of the hardest parts about picking lock is finding which binds first and you can't assume it's going to be the one up front that is correct and in fact one of the things that makes certain types of locks very difficult is when the one that binds the first is the rear most pin and it binds very very high up you have to lift the pin very high which means that you have to get all the way to the rear of the lock lift up the pin and do so without binding anything in front or causing any problems in front Steve I'd like to add another thing there in multiple pin type of locks also I've come across some that you had to start with the second to the last pin and then move up to the front and hit the first pin and then go back down skip two and hit one and then move it that way and those are a bitch to get through the average time for a locksmith someone who's a licensed locksmith to actually get through locks can be up to 25 minutes on a lock they've never used before so when you're playing with locks and you get used to your lock that locks I mean you're going to get through it in a matter of seconds and so forth but when you come across a lock you haven't used this is so you don't get discouraged if you want to go play the first time you try to hit a new lock it could take you 25 minutes it could take you 30 minutes it could take you a couple days before you figure it out but it takes to open up that lock don't be discouraged keep trying I agree one of the things I will recommend is if you know somebody that picks locks have them check it out first and make sure that there's nothing funny in there because there are a couple things that can make your life more difficult in picking the lock and you want to start with something simple start with a four pin or a five pin and work your way up or get graphite powder just another comment think about the door problem again if it opens away from you and you're pushing really hard on it you will be able to feel which knob is stiff because it's latch has got a lot of pressure on it in the door hardware industry it's actually called preload and when you're thinking about electric strikes that have to open under those conditions if somebody's pushing really hard on the door and you've got like a fire safety situation a certain amount of preload to be to be rated a bent screwdriver tension wrench this is your same piece of street cleaner bristle earlier with a little bit of a bend in the end and you use this inserting it into the keyway and rotate something that virus had mentioned earlier graphite lubricant lubrication makes your life so much better for use with locks only for use with locks only and a very serious thing when you feel that you need to lubricate a lock use graphite lubricant don't use WD-40 don't use any sort of oil because if they've used graphite lubricant in there in the past or after that it'll go in there it'll mix with the WD-40 it'll gum up the lock you'll never get it open basically you can use WD-40 and it will work but basically the locksmithing industry has settled on graphite lubricant, it's better and if everybody just sticks with graphite lubricant then you don't have a problem if you start putting WD-40 in there it solidifies, life sucks yeah, be a great piece to the guy who has to take the lock out exactly the unit of it is unix for lock it's good it's better ah, I'm sorry will an allen wrench work? yes an allen wrench will work you'll in most cases have to flatten the sides of it a little bit the problem with most allen wrenches is they'll get too brittle and so at some point you'll be applying tension and it'll snap one of the other things that is largely a style issue is the seric cleaner bristle has a little bit of flex to it and that will absorb most people tend to over torque and just apply too much pressure with the tension wrench and so this is very good at absorbing some of your torque if you're using something like an allen wrench it has no give Hobbit uses a bent nail that he bent 20 some years ago and it works very very well but it's absolutely overwhelming so you have to be very careful about how much tension you're applying even some of the commercial tension wrenches will have a 90 degree twist on it to actually give you even more flex there are some with 90 degree twists there are some with a little spring basically midway down here that will absorb some of the force if you actually check out none of us are affiliated with loom panics so this is not a plug but if you check out the loom panic books they have pictures of lots of different things in there and it's good to thumb through and see what they have wait I have a comment for those of you who are interested in getting into lockpicking you can pick up picks fairly inexpensive they're not very expensive but you will notice when you buy your first set of lockpicks that there's several duplicates of your picks and you're going to ask why don't we have duplicates of picks break you will find especially with tension wrenches until you actually start to get an idea on how much pressure to put down you're going to be breaking tension wrenches buy yourself a cheap set learn on that then buy them I've seen prices on full lock sets that have like 60 pieces up to $800 for the set and then some so start small get a cheap set and get used to replacing the tension wrenches there was a question way back there with a guy actually quick set is great there's actually an interesting aspect to that question the question was for the beginner is there a particular lock that has a set of tolerances that are useful for the beginner making it a little bit easier quick set is very very good in that realm in that they're pretty generic they're nothing fancy they're not real high quality machining they're pretty easy to get through the master padlock standard master padlock you've all seen them laminated sorts of things are very very low tolerances to the point of being incredibly difficult sometimes and there have been numerous situations where people who are very good at picking locks will get hung up on a master padlock just because it's such crap you're picking it you're acting to feel certain things and you're feeling them not because they're there but because it's just not put together terribly well what about the set of locks that you find on a master padlock in your own hand? I've got the answer for that they have what they call set keys for the barrel locks they're actually called barrel locks and what this key is is you place it in there and you apply pressure and what they do is it depends on the special keys for picking these are very stiff and it pushes them back you actually add a lot of pressure and then you pull it out and now you have a perfect key for that specific machine or whatever type of tumbler you're trying to open up and it'll stay that way and then you can actually reset it to use it later now here's the drawback if you need to use it on several machines it's going to take you a while drawback number two there are about three to four hundred dollars each the last time I saw them they were about three hundred four hundred dollars a piece I haven't seen them any too but if you know who I can get them for like 50 bucks I'm so there we'll talk later you can find them for about 50 bucks one of the problems is that there are several different styles left offset, right offset I think there are two separate diameters if I recall the one that I saw will fit them all okay I've bought in my life two of the $50 ones and they're both about that big and relatively small and will fit in your pocket and I've lost both of them so it's kind of a pain in the butt well okay in a payphone a payphone tends to use a different style of lock called a lever lock and a washing machine maybe yeah actually a lot a lot of the a lot of the washing machine locks that I see are actually called abloys which are very big in the UK and Europe and basically everywhere but here except in those cases and there are another entirely different style of lock and very difficult to pick so just a few more comments on equipment what we've described is for getting through the standard four, five, six pin lock it usually comes down to we had the diagram up of the two or three different styles of picks if you buy a pick kit a lot of times the pick kits will have you know 75 different picks you only really need two you need one that's a hook on the end and you need one that's a little bit wavy some people like to have one that's a diamond point all of the other ones just really aren't worth it in my opinion sometimes they will address that one particular lock and get you through it but in the end you should be able to do everything with those two picks and one or two different styles of tension wrenches yes sir very briefly about medical locks what we've described with a normal yeah that we're talking about doing an advanced talk next year so we'll possibly go into that a little bit more what the medico does is with your standard lock you want to raise the pin to the correct height with the medico you have to raise it to the correct height and rotate it to the correct rotation and so actually picking it takes a little more practice and a little more skill and isn't within the scope of this talk so we are actually talking I've been talking to Hobbit and everybody here about we're going to put together an advanced lock picking thing going into the more difficult to the more advanced type of locks and hopefully depending on all of our height influence we may actually present that next year at DEFCON oh by the way I'm hoping to actually have my sponsorship set up for next year's DEFCON I found a group of people who would actually sponsor this virus talk with this lock picking talk they offered to give me like a box a full set of lock picks for me to give out plus raffle off a couple night vision goggles so if I can get the sponsorships keep your fingers crossed people this talk is going to rock next year and the instructor should get night vision goggles too I think so too, I've already got my set that's alright they were talking about giving me like about 200 sets of picks I mean these were nice about $35 sets but on the side note you shouldn't actually need night vision goggles to go through locks you should be able to do it all by field these are the different style of locks you have the hook shaped, the diamond and the rake it's a little more stylized using my job using common geographic figures but that's basically what you're looking at the wrench frequently 90 degree usually a little bit less than 90 degrees so you can get it in there and there will sometimes be different sort of waves so if you have a doorknob with a lock in the handle recessed a bit you can actually get it in there I just wanted to talk this is a slide from the presentation that's posted on the door I have more copies I'll put them out on the table it's also the URL it's up on the door also it's basically a self study course and it will take you from the really easy quick set pin tumbler locks through a pad lock to a wafer style tumbler lock and then to a Schlage pin tumbler which has a little bit better tolerances and is a little bit more difficult there's also some worded locks there for extra credit if you happen to have worded locks the worded locks do take a different type of pick we are running out of time so I'm going to take a couple questions do we have anyone after us pick guns we'll be around a little bit packing up here if you have questions come on up and ask there will be people probably hanging out by the lock board please come and try and pick the locks thank you very much thank you guys


Aluminum is one of the main pollutants in our lifestyles that causes many health problems. They spray it in the air with the water vapor from airplanes. It's contained in various hygiene products such as deodorant. Aluminum and deodorant is akin to fluoride and toothpaste.   Aluminum is present in many products beyond deodorant and baking tins. It's present in our food and water, especially frozen foods, baking powder, processed cheese, baby formula. They put it in baby formula, cosmetics, other cooking tools, prescription medications like antacids, even in fresh fruits and vegetables which have been grown in aluminum-contaminated soil. This goes for aluminum in the water table as well. That's why it ends up in the drinking water. I haven't used aluminum deodorant for years nor have I cooked with aluminum. And the aluminum levels in my body are nearly zero. What's crazy is I slept in an aluminum mesh Faraday cage for a few months. I literally encased myself in aluminum which didn't seem to matter. It has to be ingested or absorbed transdermally and this can be measured with a hair mineral analysis which will also test for toxic levels of other environmental pollutants. One thing we certainly can't discount is the presence of high amounts of aluminum and other toxic metals in those needles they want to inject into us for our safety. That's part of the reason government bodies say that exposure to aluminum is okay. What I can't stand is these evil people write these articles lying to your faces. Exposure to aluminum is usually not harmful but exposure to high levels can cause serious health problems. If you think you've been exposed to high levels of aluminum, contact your doctor. You could argue that even enough water is toxic but water is necessary for our bodies. Is aluminum a necessary component for our health? No, it's not. Just like mercury isn't. So why are they saying that low doses of an unnecessary poison are okay but larger amounts can cause health problems.  Aluminum has no known function in the human body despite being abundant in nature. Aluminum is a neurotoxin and has been linked to a spectrum of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, ALS, and autism spectrum disorders. A now abundant literature shows that exposure of humans and animals to aluminum from various sources can have deleterious consequences on the developing and adult nervous system. Let me get this straight. You're worried about the effects of aluminum on adults. It's maddening that babies are injected with aluminum upon being born and their formula, their nutrition, contains aluminum. It's no secret that we are being poisoned by the authority we have entrusted with our health.  The scariest part about aluminum is that it is a slow poisoning that combined with other things that are being done to us makes us crumble away without realizing what is happening to our health. When being unhealthy and going to the doctor on a monthly basis is the norm, it's hard to get back to what's right. Even the behavior of babies with aluminum poisoning, being less coordinated, less active, isn't viewed as abnormal. So it's never identified by the parent. And that's for the lucky ones who weren't permanently maimed or killed by the ones in charge that know what's best for us. All these poor children with autism and much, much worse. What is the risk of aluminum as a neurotoxin? Aluminum is neurotoxic. It's free ion, AI3+, is highly biologically reactive and uniquely equipped to do damage to essential cellular biochemistry. This unequivocal fact must be the starting point in examining the risk posed by aluminum as a neurotoxin in humans. Aluminum is present in the human brain and it accumulates with age. The most recent research demonstrates that a significant proportion of individuals older than 70 years of age have a potentially pathological accumulation of aluminum somewhere in their brain. We were successful in lowering the body burden of aluminum in individuals with moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease and concomitantly we were able to demonstrate clinically significant improvements in cognitive performance in some individuals. While the potential of aluminum for promoting neurodegenerative disease remains controversial, the following statements which form the headings of the sum of the above discussion are indisputable. Aluminum is environmentally prevalent and ingested by humans. Acute exposure to aluminum can cause clinical neurotoxicity. Elevated levels of intrinsic inflammation are associated with neural aging and this is exacerbated in several neurodegenerative diseases. Low levels of aluminum in drinking water of experimental animals elevate basal levels of inflammatory activity within the central nervous system. And if you guys want to buy my sweaty aluminum foil on eBay, so we know aluminum is bad. We know what foods to avoid. Let's go over how it can enter and leave your body. A very small amount of aluminum that you breathe will enter through your lungs but as I said, I slept in aluminum mesh for three months and that didn't really matter. Ingesting aluminum in food or water will enter your body through the digestive tract as well as whatever is found in prescription medications. Aluminum can also be absorbed through the skin from cosmetics and deodorant. Thankfully, most aluminum leaves the body quickly in the feces and whatever enters the bloodstream can be removed in the urine but we can assume chronically high consumption of aluminum and other lifestyle stressors impairs detox pathways which can result in the accumulation of aluminum. So if we remove aluminum and optimize the lifestyle, we can fix one of many modern health problems. So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully this gives you more of an understanding and a focus to remove aluminum from your lifestyle if you have not done so already. If you guys would like to support me, check out how to do so down in the description below and of course, if you could please share this video with your friends on various social media, drop a like, leave a comment below, spread this as much as possible because it's one of the many ways we're being poisoned but it's also one of the primary ways. So thanks again for joining me today guys. I'll see you for tomorrow's video.


worst books of 2019. Hello everybody, E here. Welcome to the worst books of 2019. These are not books that came out this year. Maybe some of them are, but that is not a hard rule for this episode of Top 5 Friday. Today, we're gonna be talking about my five least favorite reads of the year. These are these are books that you may enjoy and if you do, that's fine. This is my opinion. There's been a lot of talk online recently about the pointlessness of worst of lists, worst of lists, and I'm all about pointless. So here we go at number five. So at number five we have Diablo. No, devil. I keep getting it wrong y'all. Devil. By Kathleen Kaufman. I didn't hate this book, but I've had such a good year reading that this book is down in, when I check Goodreads, other than the Dean Coombs books that I read, this is one of the only five down there at the bottom. I gave it two stars and the whole reason for that was it didn't live up to my expectations. There were a lot of inconsistencies in the book and it really went nowhere for me. That's about it. I'm gonna leave a link to my review. All these books, if I have reviews for them, will be down in the doobly-doo for you to check out. Number four. So at number four, we have another one that is not awful, but because I read so many good books this year and I quit so many bad ones, I try not to put books that I quit on worst of lists. I don't know. It just doesn't feel right to me. I don't mind reviewing them. I don't mind giving them a star rating, but I didn't finish them so I don't feel that they need to be on this list. But this is another one that is not bad, but I disliked it a little bit more than Devil by Kathleen Kaufman and that is The Haunting of Hill House. And I know there's gonna be a lot of you going, How could dare you put Shirley Jackson down here in the bottom five? Because I didn't like it. I don't see... I'm sure there's a point to the book because I love pointlessness, but I'm sure there's a point either I missed it or the book's just dated. And I think that's the biggest problem for me is that none of the concepts or anything really, especially the writing and none of it really works in modern times. I don't feel. There's been a lot of comments on my review of the book that says it's an allegory for depression and mental illness and so on and so forth. I thought we have always lived in the castle was more along the lines for that, but I didn't like that one either and it's it's basically Shirley Jackson's writing that I don't care for. It's not really the story. It's just her writing bores me. There's nothing that really evokes any emotion for me. So that's number four. Number three. So at number three, we have a book that was wickedly popular this year. I'm not entirely sure why. I've said this before in other reviews of popular stuff. I really do believe that people's expectations and standards are at an all-time low. If you disagree with me, please do down there in the doobly-doo, but it feels like the bare minimum is getting by and being lauded and praised and I don't quite understand it. The book had zero originality and the writing was really, really bad. If you want to see what I'm talking about, you can go over to my Goodreads review of this book and check out my updates, not in the actual review, but check out my updates for it for The Chain by Adrian McKinty. Don Winslow, who I love, I've never read a book that he had recommended before and he's been talking this book up all year. So I was super hyped for it because I love Don Winslow stuff. It is Winslow, right? Yeah, because one time I called him Winston and the comments section went ballistic. But Don Winslow loved his work. I had no idea when I ordered the book that Stephen King had blurred it also. Had I known that, yes, I'm a King fanboy, but the man has terrible taste in books. I don't know if it's contractual thing with him that he has to. I mean, it's not even the same publisher. I don't believe it's Mulholland books and Little Browns, so I don't think that's the case. And it could also be a case of, you know, he's friends with Don Winslow, so, you know, he's going to like what his buddy likes. But Stephen King blurred it, and as soon as I saw that, I was like, oh no, what are we going to do? But yeah, this is, if you're looking for a better experience than this book, oddly enough, the movie Cellular, I think it has Chris Evans in it. That's the movie that I kept thinking, that's what I kept thinking about the entire time I was reading this, because it felt so similar. I can't even remember Cellular, but this is, I think it's, maybe somebody got kidnapped and they have a phone and it has nothing to do with the premise of this book. But that's what kept popping up in my head while I was reading it. But the main thing is, the writing is bad. There's some stuff in here, some metaphors, some similes, that just do not work in context. They don't work at all. There's also a lot of cliched stuff, and if I'm honest, it feels like what it is, a non-American writing a book set in America. And that killed it for me as well. Number two. Okay, so on to books that I actively hated. The chain was bad, but these last two books are books that literally, they pissed me off. Maybe not one, one I was just disappointed in, this one literally pissed me off. And I am a firm believer that if a book gives you any type of strong emotion, there's something good about it, there's a talking point, at least it starts discussion. So I'm going to give this book that. What I didn't like was, it's not really the message, it was the delivery, and that is The Obsolete's by Simeon Mills. This book, it was sent to me for review, and I honestly don't know how I finished it. The book supposes that cyborgs, not cyborgs, androids are real, and that they should be treated fairly and equally, that kind of thing. The problem that I had with the book, and the thing that really sticks in my mind, is the dehumanization of the people that the author is trying to write for. You have robots instead of humans, and when you're looking at a racist or a xenophobic person or a homophobic person, they don't consider that person, the people that they hate, they don't consider them human. So to make those people literally not human bothers me. I haven't heard anything about this book, positive or negative, so you can probably see why I say these things, if you have opinions that are really really good about something, really really bad about something, then this book pissed me off, but nobody's talking about it. I feel like this book is just a meh experience, a very middle of the road experience on top of the problems that I had, which makes it even worse, because if a book gives you no feelings whatsoever and you don't even feel like talking about it, that makes a terrible book, and I just don't see too many people talking about it. Of course, you can't even say that it's because I don't read YA, but I follow loads of YA reviewers. A.G. McDonald, there's a whole list of people that I follow just because I like them, even though they don't read the same things that I do, and no one talked about this book this year. If they did, I completely missed it. If you want to link me to a positive review of it, go right ahead. I just haven't found it. I'm not talking about Goodreads, I'm talking about Booktube, where it's more likely that you're going to have a big reaction and a comment section kind of thing. Number one is a book that I will, I don't know if the review will be up by the time I post this or not, but it's a book that I got from the library that was heavily requested, and it's easily my worst book of the year. And that is Gwendi's Magic Feather. I'm still kind of shaken by the fact that this book even exists. I've heard rumors that the book is one of a trilogy, the way it ends, I don't know that it leaves open. There's nothing in this book that makes me want to read another one. Despite the fact that it's a bad book and an obvious cash in on his, I guess, his success with Gwendi's button box with King. One of the things that I couldn't help but notice is that Stephen King's name is on the book more than Chismar's is, and it feels really shady, especially because over on the side it says on the cover that the sequel to Gwendi's button box co-written by Stephen King. Now throw some reading comprehension in there. Of course he's saying that the first book was co-written by Stephen King, but it makes it sound, if you're not paying attention, it makes it sound like Stephen King had a hand in writing this book as well. Even at the bottom there's a introduction by Stephen King. So Stephen King's name is on the book twice that leads to someone who does not know better thinking that it's a Stephen King book, and it's definitely not a Stephen King book. Nothing about the book feels like a Stephen King book, and that's what I loved about Gwendi's button box was it felt like a Stephen King story. It felt like Stephen King's writing in places. Same thing with Sleeping Beauties that King wrote with his son Owen. But with this book there's no heart, there's no conflict. It's the biggest problem. You say whatever you want about it being a cash grab, but there is no conflict in the book. As soon as something negative happens it is fixed right away. Literally the very next page, or because this book is a 333 page book that's only a four hour audio book and it's not a bridge, you can tell that there's just not much, you know there's not much there. But even the stuff that's there, there's not much to it because as soon as you get done with, as soon as you see the conflict, like I said, it's fixed. On the very next page, which is the very next chapter, because they use really big font and very short chapters to make the book 333 pages when Gwendi's button box was under 200 and it's maybe 10,000 words shorter than this one. It's not a novel. In fact if you listen to the audiobook experience it says Gwendi's magic feather a novella. Yet the book is being marketed, the actual book itself is being marketed as a novel. So there's a bunch of shady stuff going on with Gwendi's magic feather, but on top of that, the main thing is the book is bad. Nothing happens and when it does happen those problems are fixed super, super quickly. The whole serial killer subplot comes to an end in like three paragraphs. It's a very convenient ending. That's my top five worst books of the year. I would love to hear about the books that you were disappointed in down there in the doobly-doo. Next week we're going to have an entire week of positives. So if you're tired of hearing about negative stuff here on the channel, we're going to end the year on a positive note. And then after that I'm going to be taking a week's vacation to recharge my batteries. I'm taking a week off of everything, social media, YouTube, all that. I won't be around on Twitter, I won't be posting things to Patreon, nothing. So next week just be ready for it. After next week, the final week of the year, I will be gone for an entire week at least. I won't be back until after the first of the year. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been the worst books of 2019. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!


Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories and crypto current digital assets and break them down into bite-sized pieces. Today we're doing a quick addendum to a video we did a couple of days ago. So a couple of days ago there was a piece that we talked about and it was about It's a Bubble and this was from a Harvard financial historian but in the very beginning of the video I talked about and for a very long time I had about scams and how to report these scams and everything else. I think the video was like 28 minutes and I spent whopping 10 minutes on the first part of it and first of all I will never talk that long about scams again. In the very beginning I will always be pushing it to the end as far as the scam of the day but this is just an addendum because in one of those pieces or one part of the video I talked about how when a scam video pops up when you're about to watch a video of your favorite YouTuber or doing the middle or the end some type of scam video might pop up and you can click on the you know skip the ad and I said don't do that because this is a prime opportunity to report this ad and people are like well I can't do that there's no way to do that so what I'm going to do today is I'm going to go through and show you how to just take 20 seconds and wipe out these scam videos without downloading and reporting your favorite YouTuber which this scam video is playing on in the beginning middle or end so before I go on to that I needed to you know put everything in context this is from July 10th and this is from whale alert on medium.com we don't know whale alert on twitter it's a it's a pretty cool account they do tracking analytics and they report large investments and moves of like whales and things like that and they were also able to show like how many people are getting scammed and how much money is being put into these scam accounts so it was a really helpful it still is a very helpful twitter account and they they put all their their data data together and they wrote this little quick piece and they said for the criminals there is almost no risk involved while victims lives are being destroyed and that's totally true because in today's video we went went over there was an article which talked about how ripple and actually sued youtube for using the ceo brad garling houses image and video in scam videos that were being put out by these scammers and the legal team pretty much just went forth in the litigation said hey it's not our fault we're not responsible for that and yeah it's our platform but it's just not our fault so really what it's saying to everybody is like hey you can put these scams up and it's not going to make a difference because you know what we're not going to take responsibility for it even though it is on our platform so that's a big problem so then you have to remember something about scams that is that if you've been involved in cryptocurrency it lasts for a while you know the game you know what time it is and it's not really surprising but you have to remember there's new people coming in and they don't know what's going on and they're like what's an airdrop and what's a fork and what's a cryptocurrency i don't know what that is but uh well someone's going to give me you know a little bit more bitcoin for one bitcoin maybe that's what an airdrop is i have no idea what that is it's just so weird to me so that you have to understand that uh everybody's in a different position so it's up to us to help the community and this has actually been affirmed in what whale alert is actually saying here in their medium post and they said hey we've used all our data and analytics and so far we've been able to confirm 38 million dollars in bitcoin alone just bitcoin have been stolen by scammers over the past four years so remember that 38 million four years however 24 million of which has been during the first six months of 2020 let me read that again 24 million dollars during the first six months of 2020 some of the most successful scams made over 130,000 a single day with nothing more than a one page website bitcoin address and a decent amount of youtube advertising so if you take a look at how much is actually being scammed we're just going up folks and there's no way it's going to slow down so this is a problem and it goes on to state that the change in method and the increase in quality and scale suggests that entire professional teams are now behind some of the most successful ones and it's just a matter of time before they start using deepfakes you know what deepfake is it's uh you know putting a representation of another person's face onto a body onto a video just search deepfake you'll see it and uh every year it gets a little better before you know it it's you never be able to tell the difference which is a technique that will surely revolutionize the scam market going on it states the market is rapidly growing its impact on people's lives becoming more substantial should victims have known better yeah sure but scams the first introduction to blockchain for money and this is where the community fails the most local regulation enforcement will do little to stop scammers so the responsibility lies with the community and then last piece it says one thing is very clear whatever's being done is not enough to stop it and the reputation of blockchain might not be able to recover in the long run so here's the thing we're in 2020 this is going to be a big year but i think 2021 is going to be a bigger year so if we have people coming in doesn't matter what age group they are demographic doesn't matter uh they're going to keep getting scammed and then once they get scammed they're like hey this is exactly what i heard it was it is used for uh terrorism the dark net hiring hitman and all the crazy stupid things you've heard too which are just false but they're going to start to believe it because there's nothing but scams and scams and scams out there nothing legitimate has this many scams okay so when you have one person get scammed that person tells 10 10 100 100 and off we go and before you know it it's hard to get your reputation back so let's stop this right now uh before it gets a little bit way out of control and let me say this i did a quick poll and i asked the question who decides which ads our place needs youtube video and out of the 416 votes uh 78 percent said only youtube is responsible for that but what was shocking to me uh was that 20 1 out of 5 essentially uh said yeah i think it's either you or either the channel creator themselves or both youtube and the channel decide which ads are being placed on the video so right now i'm here to tell you with 100 guarantee i have no control over what ads are put on my channel so like crazy for cryptos here love this guy great information you should follow him uh when i clicked on his video this scam came up so it's not like he picks scams because that would make no sense so we have no control over it okay it is youtube and their algorithm and they decide what it is so let me back up and explain to you how to get rid of when this scam comes up uh on your feed when you're trying to watch your favorite youtuber and you don't want to you know report or downvote your favorite youtuber you want to report this specific video so we need to get into this video in some way i'm going to show you right now okay so here we are and i was perusing youtube and i came across uh crazy for cryptos another one of his great videos and uh when i clicked on it i got this scam ad we know it's a scam because it says you know send us one if you give uh ten eighth back no one does that stupid it's ridiculous so we know it's a scam uh so what i'm looking for is and let me be clear i'm on my my uh macbook pro i'm on my laptop i'm not on my phone you cannot do this on mobile devices i've already tried numerous times so i'm looking for here is i'm looking for a way to report this because if i report if i downvote this then i downvote you know create digital dave's video and if i click the three dots and report it i'm actually reporting crazy for cryptos so what i need to do is look for a way to report this scam video first thing i do is i can skip i can press on here and it's going to take me to this uh website and so when you're looking at this you're like what the heck is going on and just this to actually give me a while to figure out because what they're doing is they are putting up this this website so when youtube reviews the video because it always youtube will always have to review uh where the landing page is meaning when you click on the ad where does it send that person so if there's some kind of landing page where it looks nefarious and looks very dangerous or you know has something they don't like they will not approve your ad but see what they did is they did this where you can uh go on this and it looks like it's about coffee you're like oh okay so what's going on the background is that the youtube uh ai is actually doing this and they're searching for what the landing page is and it reads it real quick and goes okay coffee taste awful whole bean coffee okay this is safe no big deal let's approve this ad and what happens is is in a couple of seconds because i actually slowed this down actually stopped this for the first six to ten seconds this is what you see but ever ten seconds you see this and then boom so this little page pops up and this is a great way to get past the youtube learning machines or the ai so the first actually i think it's actually sure that i think it's like three or four seconds is what it shows and then immediately it uh transfers over this so if you're a person who's like oh this looks like a airdrop or this looks like i mean i don't know what this is because i'm new to cryptocurrency i'm not for sure uh when you look at this you're like oh okay so this was just a thing a glitch and now i'm just gonna send over my my tennie so i can get my hundredth back so uh that's what's going on when they click on this and now it makes sense so uh i think to myself well maybe youtube is not so complicit after all but who knows so let's jump back to how we can actually report this okay so we're back at the actual uh scam video and so i'm looking for again is i'm like okay i don't want to uh report digital dave i want to report this scam but i have to figure out you know where this is coming from so just so you know uh every video that advertisers use they have to upload it to the youtube platform it has to be done it can't be external so this video is being hosted somewhere in youtube so what i'm looking for is the actual channel that is hosting this scam video so if i look over here in the top left hand corner see that says foods metallic buterin that's the secret so we're gonna click on that that's gonna take us to the actual scammers youtube channel so i'm looking at some like foods what is this foods 144 000 views what is this is this a video and i click on it and what it is is it is actually the video of the scam itself so that foods that we just saw that was just a thumbnail and it was it was put there to throw us off or the youtube algorithm so let's get rid of this so first thing we're gonna click on the dislike i'm gonna put a thumbs down and we're gonna go with three dots here and then we're gonna report it and we're gonna say this is a scam spammer misleading choose one scams and fraud just like how we've always done all the other ones and then we're gonna click next and we're just gonna say hey this is a scam and then click report and that should do it and just be just to notice that uh here i'm gonna close out it says metallic buterin not crazy for cryptos so we know we got the right channel to report and that's it so that's really all there is to it now look i um i'm trying to be a little more aggressive with these scammers because there's no reason why they should be allowed to run free and do what they do so instead of us you know just learning about it and saying we'll avoid this and avoid that i want us to be a little more proactive so when we see these things i want to take them down as fast as possible because if we just sit idly by and let them keep doing the things they're doing and just have us try to ignore it it's like trying to ignore your your house being on fire at some point you're gonna have to put out that fire or else it's gonna consume your whole place where you live so let's just get together and try to do these things really quickly doesn't take long it takes longer to learn about it than it is to actually shut these scams down all right so that's it i want to say thanks so much for sticking with me um if you've got time there's gonna be a couple more videos gonna come up pop up to your left and right i don't know what they are they're all generated by youtube and uh check those out and that is it so thanks for sticking with me and i'll see you on the next one


Although central bank of Nigeria, CBN, has encouraged Nigerians to embrace the cash swap policy to stop the loss of hard-earned money before the January 31 deadline, the director of legal services of the nation's apex bank, Kufo Salam Alada, and other officials of the bank, gave the advice after visiting major banks in Ando state to compel them to load their automated tele-machines with the new redesigned nodes. Salam said the policy would help to prevent citizens from losing their hard-earned money due to inability to access the new nodes before the deadline. He explained that the agents that would handle the cash swap have been trained by the CBN for proper operation to avoid anyone losing his or her money. So it's our expectation that all the agents will come over to their bank branches to pick up the funds and proceed to their location to start serving their customers. So banks, okay, the agents too are encouraged, you know, to collect funds above this 10,000 as cash-in and the accounts of these people credited. So where you do not have account, the Naira wallet will be open for you so that you be credited, you know, and you have value for your money. So all these efforts are geared towards making things easier, life easier for Nigerians and also let Nigerians know that there is no moving the 31st date.