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As 2025 draws to a close, we can look back on a year of fun. We supported Black Hat EU for a third time, and were as usual very busy. We have continued to run monthly meetings in Birmingham. TOOOL members also supported bSides London and other events through the year. A few more notable […]

Come meet us at BlackHat EU in London. Business Hall, at the back, in the “Bricks and Picks” section! Wednesday, 11 December | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Thursday, 12 December | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Happy New Year everyone, and welcome (back) to the TOOOL UK blog. We hope you have all had a safe and, more importantly, a pleasant holiday. We managed to close out our year being included into Black Hat EU in London, which was a fantastic event, with many people taking up lockpicking for the first

With great sadness, I can report that Michael Friend, loving husband & father of both humans & dogs, has passed away, surrounded by his family at 5:35 this morning, Saturday 5th of August, 2023. Mick had been battling cancer for several years, and unfortunately he had a bad reaction to his latest round of chemotherapy.

A note from Zeefeene: This article was kindly written by The Rickest Rick, from the toool.uk discord server. You can read the first part here. If you’re interested in writing an article for toool.uk, don’t hesitate to get in touch!   My Picking Journey – From Injury to YouTube (Part 2) Welcome to, or welcome

A note from Zeefeene: This article was kindly written by The Rickest Rick, from the toool.uk discord server. There are more parts to come, but the first part will be published here today. If you’re interested in writing an article for toool.uk, don’t hesitate to get in touch!   My Picking Journey – From Injury

Come and join the fun on our lockpicking Discord server. Sure, a few people are left who still blog, but all the kids today are on social media! And so are we. https://discord.gg/zdHK3fv (Please note, you will need to solve a captcha when you join the server, or you will be kicked automatically. We do

Hopefully lots of you popped in to say hi over this brilliant weekend. If you weren’t there you missed some fine performance from John, Warren & me, along with Jos and Rob from TOOOL who came over for the camp. I’m guessing a link to the babbling Q&A sessions (yes, we did two) will appear

By being here, you likely already know who TOOOL are, & what we stand for. We like to pick locks. But always locks we own, or have permission to play with! More coming soon. Leave a comment!