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I once saw a PC security case where instead of the lock cylinder retracting a bolt, it turned a screw thread and opened the case by about half a millimeter. It took the guy unlocking it a good fifty turns to get the PC out of it.

And there were two - one on each side. What's more, it was a tubular lock, so if you were single-pin picking you'd have to pick it 5 times per rotation.

Nothing that would stand up to a battery powered angle grinder, of course.



I don't know anyone that would SPP a tubular lock in the field.

$40 for tools designed to pick all pins at once and make a "key" with some quick impressioning motions.

Some do have spool pins. In those cases you will need manual fiddling to pick it once then you have a key to keep spinning.

Still, sounds like an interesting design. Link?


I was under the impression impressioning relied on all the lock's springs and driver pins being identical, and that better tubular locks avoided that?

I looked for a picture of the case but couldn't find one. I was in that college CAD lab... quite a long time ago.


Tubular locks are trivial to pick and the lock turning the screw mentioned above would be just as simple with a tubular pick than with the original key.




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