crowbar

This means that the TSA were unable to unlock the suitcase, which logically allows them to break into the object using a crowbar.

Yes, the author here doesn't know how to use lockpicks or a crowbar to break into a house.

Legally, he should be permitted to beat people with a crowbar if they protest his edits.

And people must be careful if they buy 'secure' doors which can't resist a crowbar too.

You might not be able to pick this lock, but if you really want to get inside, a crowbar might work.

Your karate skills won't help vs someone with a led pipe, crowbar or a knife.

I would say that the best tools to get people to pay you back are crowbar and pliers.

Why bother with some elaborate charade to copy keys when a crowbar, or usually a boot, will get you into any house?

It has to do with how easily one can drill into it, or pry it off with a crowbar, or pick it etc.

Encryption just puts mathematical bounds on the obscurity, for instance, and a lock only works through the obscurity of having to find a crowbar.

That doesn't matter much if they can grab you and apply crowbar.

But breaking a window and climbing though it takes time and you can cut yourself if you hurry and crowbar makes a lot of unwanted noise.

I still find it an unlikely threat model, but I would admit that in the unlikely event that a technology allowing you to enter a door just by scanning it and printing up a key were invented and integrated into mobile phones or something else people are carrying around anyway, then that might actually overtake "crowbar"/"breaking the window" as the lowest-cost lowest-risk way of breaking into someone's home.

Crowbar attack versus the distribution maintainer.

Crowbar attack against the upstream maintainer.