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How To Break A Common Master Combination Lock

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Here’s a description of how to open a common Master brand lock in about 10 minutes.  The design makes the 40^3 possible combinations collapse to 121.  It’s a physical metaphor for bad cryptography and reliance on obscurity.

I happen to have a lock that I forgot the combo to that this will definitely come in handy for…if I can only find the lock…

Originally published on by Jason Axley