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It starts with gasoline. Various guests seem to believe that I run a gas station. I buy 5 gallons of gasoline for lawn mowers, chain saws, or whatever, and it "evaporates" quickly. I need to lock it up.
However, most padlocks (in the USA) are really easy to pick. Master, American, or whatever, you just rake most of them, and they open. If you get one that won't rake, it's usually easy to pick them one pin at a time. I've routinely bypassed padlocks, most of my life.
Unfortunately, my kids have learned from me, so there's absolutely no point in buying a $10 Master lock, or even a $75 Master lock. Videos on Youtube will convince you that you can open the best of them in just a minute or two. OK, if you're not used to doing it, it might take you 30 minutes, but the point is, they are easy to open.
Ordered an Abus 83/45, with an RX1 restricted keyway, with serrated pins and spool pins in the cylinder. It's a seven pin cylinder, as opposed to the standard four pin cheap lock. Again, on Youtube, the better locksmiths can open them, but, it takes them more than a few seconds.
I guess I'm about to find out how skilled my sons are at picking locks. Or, I'll learn how fast they can learn to defeat a better lock!
If the gasoline evaporates behind this padlock, I'll up the ante with a more expensive, higher security lock, with an even better cylinder in it!
Someone asks, "What does that have to do with a tech site?"
The answer is, "Security is a process." You have to adapt to the threats that you are facing.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Tuesday December 06, @07:01PM (2 children)
...and what I have for you today is a security upgrade...
Let us know how well it works!
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 15, @10:54PM (1 child)
Well then - the lock has survived it's first challenge. Someone attempted to get into it by hammering it off. If they first attempted to pick it, my eyes aren't good enough to see the tattletale signs. But, they definitely tried to hammer it off.
The lock is partially protected by the hasp, and the handle that opens the top upward. Perhaps if they had a clear angle to hammer, the lock would have failed. Instead, there are hammer marks in the steel around the lock, and a few dings in the lock itself.
This old toolbox was built at the paper mill, decades ago, out of steel. No tin, it's all welded steel plate, about 3/16 inch thick. A guy can hammer on it for a long time without getting into it. Of course, a torch would get in quickly, but with 5 gallons of gasoline inside, only a complete idiot would go that route. Much the same for a grinder.
My $30 lock has already earned it's keep!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday December 15, @11:25PM
So far so good! At least it withstood the brute force attack, which is more than you can say for some of 'em...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.