Lamar Owen wrote: > On 11/28/2017 12:04 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Thanks, Lamar! that is very instructive. > You're welcome. > >> I was always unimpressed with >> persistence of attempts to make more secure (less pickable) cylinder >> cased >> locks (precision, multi-level, pins at a weird locations/angles). > > The best way to make an unpickable lock is to make the tolerances of the > pins and the cylinder bore as tight as possible, since picking relies on > part tolerances to work. But several sidebar designs are out there that > are pretty hard to pick, including Schlage Primus, the various Medeco > styles, and others, such as the Kaba dimple locks used on Cisco Metro > 1500 DWDM gear for power switches (the lasers are powerful enough to > permanently damage your eyes in short order in those). <snip> Whenever I get a CAT scan, I point out to the techs that half the warning label is missing: all I see is "Do not start into laser", and not the rest that reads "with remaining eye". Don't mind me: I just spent *far* too long doing my "mid-year performance checkin" for my employer, in Workday (the sooner that dies, the better), and it was designed by idiots, and is not suitable for what 90% of the company does.... And I'm *really* aggravated. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos