Householders were warned today to check their security in an alert sparked by video website YouTube , according to This is London via digg.
Rsearchers found that a search for “lock-picking” on the site brings up more than 280 videos showing how different types of lock can be picked and what tools are needed.
One film, which shows how to make the tools needed to pick locks, has been viewed more than 60,000 times.
The films were uncovered in an investigation by Which? magazine and sparked calls for YouTube to remove them from the site.
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Thanks for your article. I was just watching the Today show on NBC (here in the US) and they had a story about how YouTube was AIDING criminals by hosting videos on how to defeat locks through lock picking. Okay, so let me try to figure out who I think I should be outraged at… YouTube for socially distributing this information or the Locksmith community for failing to protect me against it in the first place? Whether it is something stuck in my teeth, or the fact that a 10 year old girl can defeat my front door in 10 seconds, I really would rather know than be oblivious and ignorant to the fact. I thought that was why I watched the news for in the first place, but I guess it has more to do with sensationalism and market share. Shame on lock makers, shame on NBC.