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these are not keys to get into a secure facility, they're for fucking luggage. a rusty hammer or discount $1 pliers will break these things. Consider me not im
by viggity 11y ago
these are not keys to get into a secure facility, they're for fucking luggage. a rusty hammer or discount $1 pliers will break these things.
Consider me not impressed.
- Uehreka 11y ago> a rusty hammer or discount $1 pliers will break these things. True, but with the master key you could open anyone's luggage, take something out, put something in, or just examine the contents, and then close it up with no evidence that you'd done anything.
- loopbit 11y agoActually, there would be a (very) small piece of evidence. The TSA-approved locks I have to travel to the US have a small red ring. If the lock is opened with a TSA master key, the red ring appears, it has to be opened with its own key for the red thing to disappear. So yeah, you'd know that someone has fiddled with your lock, little more.
- antsar 11y agoSure, and if they actually wanted to be sneaky (to steal something, to plant something, etc) they could just open the zipper with a ballpoint pen as mentioned elsewhere in the comments. That surely won't leave any red rings.
- vortico 11y agoClosing a split zipper is a bit difficult, but you're right. It can be done with more ease than 3D printing a TSA master key.
- mejari 11y agoSimple solution: Travel around until you get your luggage inspected, copy the notification paper they place in your luggage, place copy in any luggage you surreptitiously open, boom: TSA did it, not you.
- jessaustin 11y agoI've never seen such a paper, but presumably it could include a date and serial number? If that doesn't match their records, TSA will know something's up.
- mejari 11y agoIt looks like this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/oR15I.jpg http://i.stack.imgur.com/oR15I.jpg I'm sure the TSA would be able to figure it out, but the goal would be to leave the person whose luggage it is without any reason to believe something is amiss or to bring it to the attention of the TSA in the first place.
- westtimothy 11y agoThey could, but none of the ones they've put in my luggage have ever had any kind of (visible) identification data.
- X-Istence 11y agoI have one of those locks too, except when the TSA checked my luggage and left one of those helpful pamphlets in my bag, my lock was still green.
- tajen 11y agoPreparing 10 minutes to fully check your luggage at landing (including checking your toothpaste) might be the best spent 10 minutes of your life. However I wonder how I should react if I indeed discovered cocaine in my bag.