If a friend or coworker leaves their keys unattended for a few seconds, you know what to do.

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Sami • July 6, 2017 6:51 AM

Here in Finland we have a dominant key&lock company, Abloy, which would say that their most recent keys are secure because this "cannot" be done to them due to patents. They require licensed key cloning services to follow a process that demonstrates authorization and ensures that the number of copies in existence is always known. They always rush to introduce new kinds of keys before the expiring of a key patent. Personally, I find this "our keys cannot be cloned since it is illegal" quite ridiculous, though it certainly does seem to make it harder in practice since they could shut down anybody who makes or distributes blanks.

The locks are very high quality, though. Always makes me wonder how you survive in countries where locks are bad, although it probably doesn't matter if you also make doors that open inwards and can be trivially kicked in.