LockPickingLawyer is always worth a watch!
His videos constantly reinforce the "Locks are for honest people" saying. If you have enough skill, any lock can be picked.
Or simply broken.
Personal and Industrial computers too.
There's lists of default passwords all over. You've seen digital construction signs with funny messages on them because anyone can walk up, enter Password123 or something, and change it.
That's both similar and because of poor opsec. You can't really change the cylinder in a Caterpillar bulldozer because changing it would involve replacing it with an identical item.
Passwords can be changed but most organizations are incapable of telling you what day of the week it is, let alone recording and securely releasing passwords for field use.
Yeah well it's also easy to jumpstart/hotwire a motor if you have access. These keys seem like they're more intended to keep one from accidentally starting something or foiling the clumsiest attempts at theft.
Have you ever walked up to a car that looked exactly like yours and tried to unlock it? I have. (Back when I had a 2000 Honda Civic, relatively new so no obvious damage to look for, and it was the most common car on the road.) Imagine if you hadn't locked the door. Having a different key (hopefully) would keep you from accidentally driving off in that car. Keep kids out maybe. Not intended to foil professional car thieves, and now they have laser cut keys and electronic shit to help with that.
Friend's caddy, almost drove off with someone else's car till I noticed the pile of junk in it was slightly different. I was one row off at the store.
Took a Chevy nova for a spin in Oklahoma by just turning the ignition without a key.
Nonon was the wiser.
Just returned it to where they were selling after I drove it.
Had a slight pull to the right.
Modern cars may not run without the proper RFID handshake in a key.
I don't know why I brought up cars. The keys in the video are not very high security by design. They serve well enough to prevent accidental use or very casual theft. It's not surprising there aren't actually that many combos.
Yes. The lockout key, for example, is mostly just to keep someone from accidentally turning a knob that shouldn't be turned - it's not a security device in the sense it's keeping a valuable item locked down. The other two from aircraft are secure by obscurity - most people, even if they have the key to an aircraft, aren't going to have access to it and may not even be able to properly start it without specialized knowledge.
Confucius say: He who make too many key defeat purpose of lock.
Picking lock easier than digging in ass.
But digging in ass more fun
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We sell locks and doorknobs where I work. A metric shit ton of these are keyed alike right out of the box. Know what's even funnier? Customers explicitly ask for these. I mean they want security but God forbid they actually have to use more than one key.
One of these days I'm gonna stock up on all these keys and tools.
It's actually pretty cheap. He sells the +5 Bag of Opening (or something like that) with the five most common "keyed alike" keys in it. Add a Bogota entry kit (a single pick and a rake, with a tensioner built into each). With those two and practice, that will get you into 80% of the locks in the world.
What are some good keys / key sets to have, for someone who one day found himself all alone in America and needed to run various construction vehicles and utility vehicles? Would someone have a list handy???
A lot of heavy equipment keys are simply there to prevent someone from coming along and accidentally putting the equipment into an operational state. The locks are simple affairs and you could probably rake it open.
For example (this is not a suggestion to purchase anything from this link:)
https://www.amazon.com/Aree-Caterpillar-Heavy-Equipment-Packs/dp/B07DHJNDG6
Hahaha yes! Go to your local Home Depot and look at the models of deadbolts for sale. There are only like 6 different keys at any given time for purchase in the store. That tells me odds are good I can unlock 1 out of 6 homes with my deadbolt key.
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