There's a vulnerability in Master Lock branded padlocks that allows anyone to learn the combination in eight or fewer tries, a process that requires less than two minutes and a minimal amount of ...

My buddy bought a combination padlock at a garage sale. It was made by Master Lock, and was the model with the stainless-steel case with a black dial and white numbers ranging from 0 to 39.

Long, long ago we covered a method to crack a Master lock in about 30 minutes or less. Here’s a revival of the same method but now the instructions to retrieve the combination are in info-gra… ...

The video above from Samy Kamar shows how you can crack any Master combination lock within eight tries. It’s a bit long, but here’s Ars Technica’s explanation if you don’t want to sit ...

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My buddy bought a combination padlock at a garage sale. It was made by Master Lock, and was the model with the stainless-steel case with a black dial and white numbers ranging from 0 to 39. The ...

Click to viewNext time you forget the combination to your Master padlock (you know, the one you bought because it's bulletproof), follow DIY web site wikiHow's step-by-step instructions for ...

To release the shackle on a Master Lock combination lock, you typically need a sequence of three numbers, each between one and 40. There are 64,000 possible combinations you'd have to run through ...

With the help of an algorithm and a website Kamkar set up to demonstrate his hack, you can narrow down the lock's combination to just eight options. Then it just takes a few minutes of trial and ...

From “S.L.” (3/09): “Having read this article, I decided to stop by the Master Lock section on my next Home Depot visit. I ended up getting a slightly larger version (part #8119D) than the one tested.