stackyFACTSBasic locks are laughably easy to pick, so engineers added tiny, defensively shaped pins. When a thief tries to blindly shove them upward, the mushroom-shaped edges catch on the cylinder rim, completely jamming the mechanism. It is a brilliant physical trap for overconfident burglars.
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