Opens a series on making lock-opening tools at home from automotive feeler-gauge spring steel, covering tension-wrench shaping and heat-tempering, plus how a warded padlock’s internal mechanism works. Read more →

Getting In, a lock-picking and forced-entry guide framed as being for readers locked out of their own homes. Read more →

Marking ten years since Al Bell and Abbie Hoffman launched the Youth International Party Line, editor Tom Edison recaps the newsletter’s lineage and editors, alongside a lock-picking column on cylinders fitted with ‘mushroom’ security drivers. Read more →

Lock-Pick Larceny by Alexander Mundy, tools, cylinder types, and step-by-step picking technique. Read more →

Reviews Michael Hoy’s Exotic Weapons: An Access Book as a springboard for disavowing violence, points readers to lock-pick suppliers and a commercial MF tone-generator module, and criticizes publisher Loompanics for distributing a Holocaust-denial title. Read more →

TAP’s 7th anniversary double issue opens with a step-by-step guide to fabricating lock picks from spring steel, followed by ‘Electronics for the Dope Dealer,’ covering countersurveillance techniques, and pieces on cable TV descrambling reflecting the era’s drift toward broader ‘countereconomics’ content. Read more →

Returns after an unannounced six-month hiatus with reader-sourced improvements to the New Blue Box circuit, warns of an early caller-ID-like device marketed to catch obscene callers, and expands earlier coverage of free-electricity meter wiring. Read more →

Skewers the Nixon administration’s response to the 1973 energy crisis, then gives a detailed illustrated guide to reading, slowing, jumping, or bypassing residential electric meters and picking a ‘rollersmith’ meter lock, alongside a fundraising appeal for Abbie Hoffman’s legal defense. Read more →