[sudo-discuss] FUD around Lockpicking class

[Eddan Katz]

It would be worth our while for someone to draft a short statement that 
can be posted on the Workshop Weekend website or as a Sudo Room blog 
post. I'd be willing to help if someone did a first draft. So lame of 
Jean Quan to not even look into it.

In sum, I think there are two major elements to committing a crime - the 
act itself and the intent. In order to have both, you need knowledge. 
There's nothing in here about the socially positive reasons why you'd 
want to teach that. Take the common experience everyone can relate to of 
locking yourself out of your house, car, office, etc.. People need to 
know how to pick locks most certainly in circumstances that are 
authorized and often in the case of an emergency. We may want to clarify 
that in regards to intent - we have the opposite motivation to teach 
people these skills. It will go a long way to explicitly say that we by 
no means condone the use of those skills for criminal purposes.

We should post it and send it directly to the authors of the articles 
before the end of the day, so that a further story can be written about 
it. May also want to notify Susan Mernit @ Oakland Local to get a little 
more fair and balanced reporting.



On 2/27/13 11:20 PM, J.D. Zamfirescu wrote:
> more:
>
> http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22683660/oakland-mayor-jean-quan-apologizes-promoting-lock-picking
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mattsenate at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's awesome, free press!
>
>
>     On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:40 PM, rusty lindgren
>     <rustylindgren at gmail.com <mailto:rustylindgren at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Oh dear gawd.  This is possibly the most moronic piece of
>         "journalism" I have ever seen.
>
>         Are they unaware of the fact that you can go to a lock-picking
>         school(actually it teaches you way more), and that this is
>         just a cheaper version of that?  (see:
>         http://www.lock411.com/training.html).
>
>          Also, virtually no crime in Oakland involves skilled
>         lock-picking, because it's a waste of time.
>
>         Don't worry though, you can train in deadly martial arts, go
>         to the shooting range, and buy ninja swords just about
>         anywhere in Oakland, but picking a Masterlock is "appalling".
>
>         -Rusty
>
>
>         On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Anca Mosoiu
>         <anca at techliminal.com <mailto:anca at techliminal.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi everyone,
>
>             Heads up. Looks like some folks aren't too happy that
>             people are learning how to pick locks this weekend.
>
>             http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=9010047
>
>             Here is Oakland Local's response:
>
>             http://m.oaklandlocal.com/article/oaklands-mayor-quan-apologizes-mentioning-weekend-lockpicking-class-really
>
>             Anca
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