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There are some more photos of another lock with the same key over in this thread: http://www.lockpicking101.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=57172
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That GIF is waaaaay too suggestive.
āsome of you guys might be having this problemā¦ā
The āmultiple teeth strung togetherā key design seems like it would be much more susceptible than a conventional key to getting stuck in the lock or, worse, coming apart when one pulls it out of the lock.
True, itās not a practical design.
Whaddaya want, a lock thatās unpickable or a lock that works reliably?
As is so often the case, Mr. Munroe has an excellent solution:
I wonder how long it will be before some No Secrets Allowed type will chime in declaring that āunpickableā locks should be outlawed as they will make it more difficult for them to gather evidence of criminal activities
Clearly it cannot be sold to American civilians, becauseā¦ some vague, ongoing threat.
And it it is made in the U.S., then it must be classified as a munition to prevent exports to our current enemies. Government agencies and contractors will still be able to export it to our future enemies, of course.
How about if the key was simply a sheet of super-elastic material such as nitinol? Flexible, but a single piece.
Indeed. Iāve had solid metal keys snap off in a lock once or twice after much use. This thing not only looks extremely breakable, but if it does break off in the lock it renders it unopenable until dismantled. (And you want a high-security lock to be hard to dismantleā¦)
The part here that would apply torque, though, is the rigid outer shell. The key itself doesnāt apply torque or shouldnāt). With that in mind, it doesnāt like it would be any more likely to snap than a regular key.
There are other potential points of failure with the design though (and a single attempt to remove the key without first withdrawing it would probably ruin it completely)
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Despite the cartoon format, this is something you may not wish to share with children.
No lock is unbreakable to the guy with a good supply of angle grinder wheels/plasma torches/time. If the government wants to get in a safe, they can get in a safe. This lock is to protect against someone who is in a time crunch (because someone might randomly walk by any time now).
And that is why some safes are built with a mechanism for destruction of their content - some based on explosives, some on thermite.
Sometimes they backfire and may even kill their owner, as happened at least once. But thatās the cost/risk side of the countermeasures.
