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| m98:
--- Quote from: ebastler on July 10, 2022, 03:38:45 pm ---Well, the original post is not that long... If you keep reading, you will get to the "Yale lock", "duplicate keys" and "tailgating through main security" part eventually. ::) --- End quote --- I still don't see the issue. Not sure what a Yale lock is, but can't he just swap in his own cylinder? :-// |
| pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: m98 on July 10, 2022, 06:50:35 pm --- --- Quote from: ebastler on July 10, 2022, 03:38:45 pm ---Well, the original post is not that long... If you keep reading, you will get to the "Yale lock", "duplicate keys" and "tailgating through main security" part eventually. ::) --- End quote --- I still don't see the issue. Not sure what a Yale lock is, but can't he just swap in his own cylinder? :-// --- End quote --- It might be that he is not allowed to do that. But if it is a proper office rental it might also be that the key can not be copied without permission (certified keys) and he does not have to worry about previous renters to still have the keys. |
| Zenith:
--- Quote from: m98 on July 10, 2022, 06:50:35 pm --- --- Quote from: ebastler on July 10, 2022, 03:38:45 pm ---Well, the original post is not that long... If you keep reading, you will get to the "Yale lock", "duplicate keys" and "tailgating through main security" part eventually. ::) --- End quote --- I still don't see the issue. Not sure what a Yale lock is, but can't he just swap in his own cylinder? :-// --- End quote --- I get the impression it's a rough part of town and he doesn't have much faith in the building security. He might be able to change the cylinder, but depending on the door, that may not be much use against someone who comes with a case opener. |
| bd139:
Locks only keep honest people honest. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 10, 2022, 05:59:38 pm --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on July 10, 2022, 05:26:33 pm ---It depends on the oscilloscope, whether those who know the value and are of a dishonest disposition see the oscilloscope and think they can take it, without getting caught. A new security manager where I work stated we must start to start locking the storeroom because equipment might get stolen. We have some very expensive pressure calibration equipment, which cost arount 20k each. I said it's unlikely anything will get stolen because it hasn't happened in the company's 70 year history and few people who are aware of the value of the instruments are the type to steal them. I told her, if we left a piece of test equipment worth 20k at the local shopping centre, with a £200 bike next to it, both unlocked, the bike would get stolen, not the instrument. The value of the bike would be obvious to anyone, but not the test equipment which is very niche. --- End quote --- Famously when Bill Hewlett found a store room locked, he used bolt cutters and left a note requesting that it not be locked in future. --- End quote --- The plan is to have a combination lock. We did lock it at one point, but it was because cheap cable ties were being stolen, not expensive equipment. We gave up locking it, because only one person had the key and people got fed up with having to ask him for it. Now we just accept the cable ties will get nicked and just reorder them, They're cheap enough not to worry about. The code for the combination lock will probably be written down somewhere discrete. |
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