Is Lock Picking a Lost Art?

By now, most of the people in the security field have become aware of near foolproof means of bypassing pin tumbler locks and the like using a special key and hammer. My naive thought was that once the new method would come to light, the art of lock picking would soon fall by the wayside.

Furthermore, particularly in information security circles, people mostly lose sight of the need to address physical security as a means of ethically penetrating a client's infrastructure. To this end, I encourage information security pratitioners to expose themselves to lock picking as a means of increasing concentration, and solving puzzles. Whether it be a door to a server room, or a lock protecting a rack of servers, having a basic understanding of how locks work and some general techniques to defeat them can make all the difference in the world.