Comment on This mess of a keychain I was handed at work

Pipea@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My mom has one from the late eighties on her front door in salty south Florida. Also they have a very nice security through obscurity feature in that disc detainer picks are still fairly rare.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not just obscurity. It needs a fiddly custom to that’s super easy to break and needs a ton of skill to use.

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• Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why not? It’s only “bad” compared to newer Abloys.

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  • Pipea@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My parents still have one that’s probably older than I am. I figured it’s just some gimmick lock from back in the day that was marketed as “high security” because of the wierd looking key. They have a thing about this, y’know how some people have to have some kinda edge on the “rest of the plebs”, can’t just be normal and buy a normal lock, no they gotta buy… this thing.

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    • BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No lock is “high security”, but Abloy are better than most.

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• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Finland? yeah. When I lived in the city I had a safer one, but here in the boons it’s exactly the model above. For the front door.

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• supermurs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My parents’ still have that, over 40 years old Abloy lock.

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is there a reason switch?

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  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The new model has a cartel agreement not to copy them freely.

    With these you never know how many keys are in rotation after a couple of tenants.

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