I set a walmart on fire once… ~12 years old, unsupervised, and playing with flamable liquids in the garden center…

Identified and spoken to by investigators, but still unpunished. I happened to be leaving the country with family in a few weeks, so they just let me go.

Perfect, draw my attention so I remember to fuck with it

Seems easier to just look at how many were rung up at the till…

Something like a TSA key that fits the lock in addition to the owner’s key.

‘TSA approved’ locks have a seprate keyway specifically for TSA to open and inspect your bags.

There is something called ‘Master Keying’ (not talking about the master lock company), where you can setup the pins in a lock to open for multiple different keys. Commonly used in places like hotels and motels: one key only opens your door (this is the one given to you at check-in) and another key that opens all the motels locks, given to management/cleaning staff so they can get into each room without needing dozens or hundreds of keys.

This requires each lock to be explicitly setup with the correct pins to accept both keys. Not super common now, but you still find them now and again.

The TSA have 3-4 specific ‘TSA keys’ (which are easily purchased), and they demand you use a ‘TSA approved’ lock which has an extra keyway explicitly for them to use. If you don’t use one of these locks, they’ll cut yours off during inspection and give it back to you in pieces, with no compensation.

Yup, considered another type of lockpicking tool. Depending on the lock; clumsy, loud, and often ineffective. Usually defeated by security pins and/or different strength springs in the pin stacks. Plus you have to have the correct key blank for the lock cylinder you’re attacking.

That master lock I’m familiar with, I’ve actually got one sitting on my shelf righ now. I could be mistaken; but I could have sworn those were warded lever locks; needing more than just the tip, but at least one if not two other positions to raise all of the levers as well. Perhaps I was wrong there, they may be even cheaper than I had thought (I’ve not actually dissected one as they’re riveted together).

As I had said; exceptions.

The tubular lockpick is what I posted… So yeah, I’m aware of it and it’s usage…

Or you buy the right key, which is what OP did.

This has been my point in this entire conversation. OP didn’t buy some magic ‘universal key’, they bought a regular key that happens to be commonly used. Nothing special.

Yes, they’re only relevant to purely warded locks which are largely nolonger used in the modern world (exceptions always exist, the world isnt black/white).

In the world of pin-tumbler or tubular locks - what we’ve been talking about - the closest equivalent would be a comb pick/key; which is a bypass tool (or lock pick) that only effects poorly designed locks with pin stacks shorter than the chambers they’re in, when they’re fully compressed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these for a tubular lock, but they may exist.

Each of the little pins you see in the ring of that lock are equivalent to the pins in a typical pin-tumbler lock you’d find on a front door. The corresponding round cutouts in the edge of the key barrel set how far each one is pushed down when you insert the key.

Yes, there’s just one little tooth that rotates the lock, but only after each of those pins are pushed down to the correct depth. These are almost always really cheap locks, so you’ve only got to be kind of close tbh, but you do still have to be close.

You’ve just got a copy of walmarts keys. (Or a near enough approximation) nothing ‘universal’ about it. I don’t think you explicitly tried to get ‘walmarts keys’, but got lucky enough with whatever random key you bought that it happens to work.

There’s no such thing as a literal ‘universal key’. There’s commonly used keys (like what a large international retailer might buy and use in bulk…), and there’s lock picking tools.

A ‘universal’ key, IE a key that can be used to open multiple different locks. So yes, a lock pick. What were you expecting?

Not all walmarts are the same, many haven’t ‘upgraded’ to digital locks. Still an interesting tool for the arsenal.

That’s just a key, presumably a copy of the specific key that your local walmart uses; there’s nothing ‘universal’ about it.

https://covertinstruments.com/products/covert-tubular-lock-pick

I continue to be glad I’ve not paid for a streaming service, cable, satellite, or any other tv/media service in the entirety of my life.

My mother stopped paying for satellite tv in like 2014ish, my sister stopped paying for Netflix in 2019, and I’ve provided an Emby server with an Ombi and arr stack based requests system to my whole family since 2017.

Those services have done more than enough to prove they don’t deserve my money.

Mix it up a bit; just play dialup tones.

I guess it automatically locallizes the price. Shows me 23.99CAD.

Doesn’t show me a captcha either.

Nobody wants to see that pussy anyway.

Also; his neck looks like a vagina.

I don’t see why not, and for $24 you may as well give it a go.

Schools are the obvious places to test/enact these types of changes too.

Kids don’t know to speak out against remote policing via robotics, and normalising it now gets them used to it’s wider use in society later.

It’s much easier to raise a generation under a new set of standards, than it is to make an existing generation accept a new normal.

Drones are an effective tool on an open battle field; but they operate under wildly different conditions. Wide open spaces and short contacts (find target, ram to explode. They don’t have to loiter and maintain that contact).

A pepper spray equipped drone in a school??? Tight enclosed spaces with halls and doorways (that are usually closed) you’ve got to navigate. Quad copters are loud, and that’d be amplified by that enclosed space. Without sufficient distance to keep out of reach they’d be an easy target to take down by the assailant. To use the spray, you’d have to get near, deploy it, and escape before being struck down; giving the spray to the assailant to harvest and use.

AND they’ve only got 8min of flight time.