They key will not work unless the push button code is correct. If you get the code wrong twice it freezes, and you can't add another code for 10 minutes. You needed to put the push button code before the key will work. So, with this in mind, I didn't opt for 'No", I went for "sort of" and before I had time to add all manner of face-saving caveats, he said "what about this lock?", and pulled a curtain aside to reveal a small safe. Fortunately Marc Tobias is an even more sophisticated picker, and in his book demonstrated a variety of techniques and tricks to open it without the key in under 30 seconds. The Medeco Biaxial, an incredibly sophisticated pin cylinder lock. Through research, intelligence, cunning, and know-how they found a variety of ways to open the Medico Biaxial without the keys. When I read Marc Tobias' book "Open in 30 Seconds" where he and a friend took the Medeco Biaxial lock, a lock considered one of the most secure locks in the USA today, and absolutely smashed it. And while the short answer is "No", I do believe, given the right information, time to prepare, research etc, it is possible to pick every lock. And yet with lock picking I have been asked this many, many times. I'm not sure if you said you were a race car driver people would ask "Can you beat every car?" or if you said you were a mountain climber would anyone ask "Can you climb every mountain?". But let's just consider it for a moment, "Can you pick EVERY lock?'. I'm sure some of you will have been asked a similar question, it's quite a common response. But 'Century' not 'Sentry', a difference that would appear to have caught me out. The subject of lock picking came up and I was asked, like I often am in such situations "So what, can you pick every lock?". The Sentry safes I have seen 'cracked' many times online. A Century safe from Korea which looks much like the 'Sentry' safes I have seen all over the place. A "sportsman's bet" as it is often known, where there's no money at stake, but something far more valuable - my integrity.
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