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We just broke the locks on the cages with a screwdriver. Locks only keep honest people honest.
by hughrr 5y ago
We just broke the locks on the cages with a screwdriver. Locks only keep honest people honest.
- xenadu02 5y agoMost common locks can be easily picked with a tiny bit of practice. I'm completely incompetent but I can pick any Master lock in 5 minutes or less.
- lrvick 5y agoWhich is why you should never use Master Locks. I am pretty decent at lockpicking but I can't pick a Medeco or better in any practical amount of time and very few in the world can. Little bit more money vastly reduces your attack surface.
- Godel_unicode 5y ago> Little bit more money Aren't medeco padlocks like $100, whereas master lock padlocks are less than $20?
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- vdqtp3 5y agoWhat's the value of the asset it's protecting?
- dekhn 5y agoI remember learning how to break master locks back in the 1980s. But I also heard they changed the mechanism after that.
- danachow 5y agoI’m pretty sure they did on a number of models, but it wasn’t for the better
- lrvick 5y agoI went to home depot a couple years ago and bought every model of master lock they sold. Picked all of them in an afternoon. I then taught kids to pick them.
- dekhn 5y agodo you mean combo locks, or key locks?
- ris 5y agoThat would generally be considered "detectable intrusion" though.
- liketochill 5y agoNot if you replace it with another lock that looks similar
- richardw 5y agoI think when you get home and your key doesn’t work on the lock, it might tip you off.
- liketochill 5y agoWhen I had towers or pizza boxes I pretty much never touched them once it became normal to leave them on all the time, which was as soon as they were always downloading from the internet at 3.3 kbps. If the case was locked in a cage I wouldn’t notice until I needed to put access the tower to plug in a usb, which might not be for weeks these days.
- lrvick 5y agoI don't expect good locks to keep people out. I expect good locks to be tamper evident so I know I can't trust my system.
- Ajedi32 5y agoUnfortunately, there aren't really all that many "good locks" on the market. The Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube[1] has pretty much destroyed my faith in the modern lockmaking industry. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer/videos
- hirundo 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8QKZNFxLw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV8QKZNFxLw
- akavel 5y agoApparently, picked here: https://youtu.be/ai5Hf-wPXFE https://youtu.be/ai5Hf-wPXFE but check out this one instead: https://youtu.be/sES_Hbj92BQ https://youtu.be/sES_Hbj92BQ - ~2h to open fully (though the author of the video claims impressioning could speed up the thing; anyway, reportedly attacking the door is just easier in this case)
- lrvick 5y agoI have Bowley locks in my collection. Amazing quality. Not only does it take a couple hours to pick for an expert but you have to make a custom set of tools that only work on that one particular lock. If a lock keeps someone out for several hours it is a great lock.
- Norlin 5y agoGuy who made the video here. The lock mechanism itself isn't one of the easiest, but also not one of the hardest to pick skill-wise. However, it does take a very long time to pick through which means that the lock is doing its job very well. Also, I have read that this lock is very resistant to destructive attack as well. So combining pick resistance with physical resistance, you have a very good lock as long as it's installed on a good door and the building has all other security measures in place (no ground level unprotected windows, etc) Also worth noting, Bosnian Bill (a more recognized name) also attempted this lock here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLeiPmfm-2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLeiPmfm-2s