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Check the videos from the LockPickingLawyer. That will take a long (if entertaining) time, though. It would be great if someone compiled a list of locks that LPL & friends recommend; I'm not aware of one.

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LPL hasn't recommended this lock, but the Kaba Mas X-10 [1] has no known successful pick, but they're not normally available to anyone outside US Federal Government agencies and their specifically-authorized contractors. Only a little over a million units out there, so it is difficult to assess just how secure it is as it isn't open to any and everyone who wants to attempt a pick. But there aren't any even credible rumors of a pick. It's not even a mechanical lock, and it isn't anywhere in the same universe as the crappy electronic locks that are out there in the retail market.

At a less esoteric more commercially accessible scale, while picked the pick is not published yet, and deploying in the wild currently takes an infeasibly long time (about an hour by the inventor of the pick): the Assa Abloy Protec 2 [2]. Unless you're trying to lock away national security secrets, it is quite sufficient to deter the common lockpicking burglars out there around the world.

[1] https://www.kabamas.com/x-10-high-security-lock/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/lockpicking/comments/amjumx/abloy_p...

Assa Abloy and Bowley stand up if that's all you care about. But he also shows that you can replace the lock cylinder, or take apart the lock and put your own pins in it, so in a way it's not important.

I remember watching a few videos where He's done comparisons as well.

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