• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      2 days 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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        Not just obscurity. It needs a fiddly custom tool that’s super easy to break and needs a ton of skill to use.

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        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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      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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        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.