begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:20:13PM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: [snip] > >I'm not sure you *can* have a (physically) keyed lock that's "unpickable". > > Well, if I remember correctly, there is a $10K reward offered by Medeco > if you can pick open one of their locks for them. I heard that only one > guy did it and was hired on the spot to make it even better. I doubt > there has been any shortage of others who tried. Schlage Primus is one > that is close to pick proof as well as a few from Assa and others.
Oh, I'm not saying that they aren't _good_. And the company trusts that the lock is good up to $10k. So if you have have stuff to store that's worth[1] less than $10k, that sort of lock would be *great*. > You're welcome to try to cash in on the reward if you think you can do > it. You can buy a Medeco deadbolt for your door from around $100 (if > you're lucky) to about $900 each. Buy one and practice on it. Oh, I'm not skilled enough to even try. And it probably isn't worth the time-investment to go after the prize anyway... for those inclined that way, it's probably a skill you would NOT want to advertise. [1] worth is a funny thing. There's the assessed value, the purchase value, the replacement value, the fence value... but while the fence value is most likely much less than the others, a thief that can pick such a lock won't have to do it all in one go. You can't make a living picking a lock for prizes, but you can make a living picking a lock for the contents protected by it. In theory. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
