At best it’s a realy terrible example of “Security by Obscurity” and it’s been “blown” as a security measure for a couple of decades or more. It’s seen as a security feature by many “lock smiths” but the reality is it’s anything but. You can see that the key is deliberately “over complicated” and a true minimal “master key” would be much less so, due to the simple nature of the locks which are easily available and easy to open and require very little expertise to cut a key for.Īlso you could “cut a key and lock” whereby your minimal master key would open “Arrow Key” locks as well as your lock, but… An “Arrow Key” would not open your lock.īut the real issue of making the key over complicated is it’s not easily visually recognised. Well it looks like the LAPD did not get the memo, Remember the TSA put up photographs of their keys… (Say, dropping off a Priority or Express package, or. Problem is, that doesn't help at all if a different USPS employee needs to deliver mail. To deliver mail, a copy of the building front door key has been provided to our regular mail carrier. The C19 lockdown will have made “on line” purchase and postal return way more socially acceptable, thus on the principle of “low hanging fruit” the criminals follow, and I would expect this sort of crime to go up proportionately. We have a 9-unit apartment building with USPS-approved mailboxes mounted in the secured entry lobby. Which suggests the captures are the exception rather than the rule. If the crooks are “smart” then the crimes would be lower risk, but those few that have been caught don’t appear to be that smart. Which makes postal crime have greater returns for the criminals. What has changed is the way people make purchases and return goods, gets credit cards and other small items of value. This story was from 2017,īut there are others, including one where the criminals made the fake keys from cheap store bought scissors. The arrow locks have always been insecure as people easily hand made keys. What has changed is society not the locks and keys, that were always a joke, and the crime has followed the changes “Wonder how arrow keys were fine for decades, but now aren’t.”

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