The Most Secure Lock Ever? (Hint: Nope)
Author: Brian Rhodes, Published on Dec 03, 2014
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Comments (4)
Undisclosed Integrator #1
A few mins with a slide hammer and that face plate will be off and you will have access to the inner circle. Not convinced, it's essentialy the the same as the tumbler locks which use similar principle and now easily bypassed.
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Tedor Gligorich
Also, look like approx. 3x heavier.
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R. Cortland Tompkins, PhD
This is a cool and novel lock, but it has already been picked.
I will stick with the (totally unnecessary) Abloy Protec2 deadbolts I have on my house.
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