The Origin of the Lock. The earliest known locking mechanisms were discovered by archaeologists in the mid-19th century at the Palace of Khorsabad in modern day Iraq. The rudimentary key and lock ...

Since the Skeleton Key never breaks, there's no need to add more than one to your inventory. You still can if you want, though. All you need to do is change the number at the end of the console ...

The keys for these locks all act upon low-security wafer mechanisms. That means they are very easy to pick, jiggle, or manipulate open. In tests that we ran many years ago, most could be opened ...

Used in: Most door locks with a latch or deadbolt. How it works: When you insert your key in a pin tumbler lock, pins of varying lengths are pushed by springs into the grooves on the key. Only ...

Trinfinity Software, the folks behind Mac utilities such as Time Track, have a new goodie available: Skeleton Key 1.0, which locks or unlocks multiple files at once by dragging and dropping them.

Experience the ingenuity of a multi-lock mechanism designed to transform a single key into a solution for unlocking two separate locks. This DIY project showcases how to unlock the top lock by ...

One of the hairier unintended consequences of cheap 3-D printing is that any troublemaker can duplicate a key without setting foot in a hardware store. But clever lockpickers like Jos Weyers and ...

A skeleton key–like TCR hasn’t been found on ordinary T cells. However, one has been discovered on the keychain of another kind of T cell, the mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cell.

Professionals lockpickers in Germany have figured out how to create a plastic "bump" key using 3D-printing that can unlock a high-security lock Jos Weyers, Unlocked In TV shows such as Prison ...

A short movie that copies a smart key that can remotely operate a car lock using a device `` Flipper Zero '' that supports wireless communication in a wide range of frequency bands and infrared ...

Once, a long time ago when I was 13 I discovered my mom somehow had a skeleton key to our local post office. I had forgotten our box number, and tried the wrong one and had mail from someone else.