Oh so the replacement isnt the little round y-1/m1 blank in the left side of the pic? Ive cut a lot of keys in my day and what makes them work besides the jagged pattern the pins fall into which allows the lock cylinder to turn are tbe pattern of groces along the horizontal shaft of the key. Sometimes other blanks will work if the slots are not to specific and the key slots are just vague/thin enough to fit into the cylinder but these 2 key blanks have very different slotting configurations
Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys with extra slots, some of them even have stepped slots for additional pins in the cylinder.
I guess you could copy a key from a picture but it would be a real pain.
Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys
I thought the same
It would be easier to steal keys off of someone’s desk or just pick the lock over stalking someone online, verifying you know their location irl, decoding a key from a picture, and then using that key at their work(?). Possible, but highly improbable. Like, if a YT streamer showed their house key and their address was public enough, yeah, that’s a risk. Some rando on Lemmy? Not so much
Oh so the replacement isnt the little round y-1/m1 blank in the left side of the pic? Ive cut a lot of keys in my day and what makes them work besides the jagged pattern the pins fall into which allows the lock cylinder to turn are tbe pattern of groces along the horizontal shaft of the key. Sometimes other blanks will work if the slots are not to specific and the key slots are just vague/thin enough to fit into the cylinder but these 2 key blanks have very different slotting configurations
Looks like one of those assa a-xx high security commercial keys with extra slots, some of them even have stepped slots for additional pins in the cylinder.
I guess you could copy a key from a picture but it would be a real pain.
I thought the same
It would be easier to steal keys off of someone’s desk or just pick the lock over stalking someone online, verifying you know their location irl, decoding a key from a picture, and then using that key at their work(?). Possible, but highly improbable. Like, if a YT streamer showed their house key and their address was public enough, yeah, that’s a risk. Some rando on Lemmy? Not so much
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