Shrinky Dinks As a Threat To National Security

Tag : Hand Tool Bits
Shrinky dinks? Paper clips? Gimme a break. I can duplicate a Medecokey blank with a piece of brass stock and a dremel tool, then cut aperfect key from a photocopy using my HPC Blitz [hpcworld.com]. There's nothing amazing about what this guy'sdone. Given the appropriate information (cut depths and angles) any medeco key can be duplicated without serious difficulty. Heck,that's the case with all mechanical key locks. I once showed the Medeco rep who came to mylock shop how I could duplicate a standard G3 Biaxial key using aslightly modified commonly available Rolls Royce key blank. He wasunderstandably dismayed, but not surprised. There are two kinds oflocksmiths in this world: 1) the kind like the guy quoted in thearticle who said "Your locksmith will tell you this is impossible",and 2) guys like me who will tell you "yeah, someone could make akey to that--- I've done it myself". Point is, you want to use alocksmith more like 2) than 1). The first guy will feed you thestandard Medeco marketing bullshit about how "only we can make yourkeys" and convince you that equals security. The second guy willtell you key control is useful, but it's not relevant beyond itsobvious purpose. There are really only two kinds of commonbreak-ins: inside jobs and random burglaries. In the case of insidejobs, all the key control in the world won't matter because theperp has a key already. This key could have been given to them,taken out of a desk drawer, or otherwise acquired via lax internalkey management. This makes up 99% of all break ins. The other 1% isburglaries by random opportunist perps taking advantage of aweakness, usually on the spur of the moment. Back doors proppedopen by people out for a smoke, simply walking in during businesshours wearing a suit, etc. All this spy crap people have in theirheads about about burglars picking locks and James Bonding intotheir houses is fantasy bullshit. Real burglars wait till you'renot home and throw a brick through the window, or let themselves inwith the key you gave the cleaning service. All this hoo-hah overmaking a medeco key with a credit card is total yawnsville, and ifanyone thinks they can get into the white house with a shrinky dinkkey, they're totally on crack. The whit House has things likeSECRET SERVICE AGENTS, and ALARM SYSTEMS because they know keysalone are not enough.