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Re:TSA Master Keys by Vexs on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:51AM (#10186006)
It's very easy to do actually, you just need one lock actually. It's called key impressioning, and basically you put a blank in a lock, look for the scratches on it, file it down a bit, rinse/repeat.
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Re:TSA Master Keys by tptacek on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @10:59AM (#10186064)
It shouldn't be quite that easy, because the engineer has locks A, B, and C, and needs to discern from them the skeleton key that unlocks X, which they do not have.
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