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I never thought that a luggage lock is a great theft deterrent. It's useful that your luggage can't just be opened up quickly and on the sly. For example when

I never thought that a luggage lock is a great theft deterrent. It's useful that your luggage can't just be opened up quickly and on the sly. For example when you check a suitcase in by baggage handlers [1] Same goes for hotel room safes. I would certainly not store anything very valuable in there. But to lock away a couple hundred euros, some equipment and your cards, which you don't need to carry on your person it's good enough. Certainly much better than just having your valuables lying around openly. [1] Sure, a baggage handler with a set of TSA master keys can open it very quickly and possibly discreetly. Who has ever thought about anything which can go wrong with that implementation? e: clarification

nucleardog 5y ago
> Same goes for hotel room safes. I would certainly not store anything very valuable in there. But to lock away a couple hundred euros, some equipment and your cards, which you don't need to carry on your person it's good enough. For stuff like that I usually just try and find a good hiding spot. The hotel safes are trivial to open (most don't even bother changing the factory master password...) and that's the first place anyone is going to look for stuff to steal. It's kinda like if the hotel room had an open wicker basket with a sign saying "STORE VALUABLES HERE"--you'd probably keep them literally anywhere _but_ there.