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Take a picture, erase the message, print it, take a picture, use keyMe. Alternatively, find a hardware store where they aren't jerks.
by bitJericho 13y ago
Take a picture, erase the message, print it, take a picture, use keyMe. Alternatively, find a hardware store where they aren't jerks.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoWhat's the difficulty level of laser-cutting a key?
- rahimiali 13y agoit turns our you need a fancy laser cutter to do this. melting brass reflects infrared everywhere, which can destroy everything within sight. one solution is to use a different frequency, which costs more. i run keysduplicated.com, and we long ago settled on CNC mills instead of laser cutters to make our keys. they're cheaper, slightly more reliable, and much faster.
- emhart 13y agoHey! Just a note to say I love what you've done at keysduplicated. When you first launched Shloosl I had dozens of people email and tweet me expecting that I would be horrified. Instead, I tried to explain that convenience has to live in concert with security. If you can provide people a solution that is nearly as convenient as keeping a key under the doormat, but far safer on an individual bases? I think that's a huge win. Congrats on your success thus far, wishing you the best!
- rahimiali 13y agoSweet! Thanks for the kind note.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoThanks for the info, love the site! FYI: Your footer is missing a link for getting updates: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpipzrhrnigj1nb/Screenshot%202014-03-25%2014.40.03.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/lpipzrhrnigj1nb/Screenshot%202014-...
- qwerty_asdf 13y agoWell, I'm not certain that the guy at hardware store was a total jerk. I'm not entirely clear on how the lock was determined to be compromised. Yeah, he took my money, but did the hardware clerk take a picture of the key, and report it? (I doubt it) Was the master actually stolen, as a matter of coincidence? Did the lock somehow indicate that an improper key was being used on it? I had both my original and the copy, and there weren't any serial numbers, and there don't seem to be any embedded chips in my keys...
- mechanical_fish 13y agoYes, the clerk almost certainly turned you in. The alert went out within a week. Do you really want to bet that was a coincidence? He may not have turned you in, by name or by face, and he may not have turned you in specifically to your landlord, but he could have. And the coincidence suggests that the word went out and that your landlord took action in response. As for the "master" key thing: Master keys can often be made by filing off a tiny bit of a non-master key. That's how they work. So, when you requested a copy of your key, you may really have raised the suspicion that you were about to go home, take out a file, make a master key, and go on a fun round of housebreaking. (Obviously, you would not turn your original key into a master, because then when your landlord or the cops asked you to produce it, it would be tampered with.) Incidentally: Because master keys are variations on the shape of non-master keys, your key doesn't need a "serial number" or embedded chips to match it up with other keys from your building.
- qwerty_asdf 13y agoEh, I'm not convinced it's such a cut and dry story. Landlords, superintendents, porters, elevator operators and doormen can be as sketchy as tenants (like me, ha ha). Disgruntled porters get sick of taking the garbage to the curb and unclogging yet another toilet for someone, quit without notice, and "lose" keys all the time.