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• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s just key, presumably a copy of the specific key that your local walmart uses; there’s nothing ‘universal’ about it.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These are some of the cheapest locks you can get and all just use a single tooth to turn the latch.

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    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Each of the little pins you see in the ring of that lock are equivalent to the pins in a typical pin-tumbler lock you’d find on a front door. The corresponding round cutouts in the edge of the key barrel set how far each one is pushed down when you insert the key.

      Yes, there’s just one little tooth that rotates the lock, but only after each of those pins are pushed down to the correct depth. These are almost always really cheap locks, so you’ve only got to be kind of close tbh, but you do still have to be close.

      You’ve just got a copy of walmarts keys. (Or a near enough approximation) nothing ‘universal’ about it. I don’t think you explicitly tried to get ‘walmarts keys’, but got lucky enough with whatever random key you bought that it happens to work.

      There’s no such thing as a literal ‘universal key’. There’s commonly used keys (like what a large international retailer might buy and use in bulk…), and there’s lock picking tools.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No such thing as a literal universal key

        Skeleton keys?

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