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  2. Safe-cracking - Wikipedia

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    Scoping a safe is the process of drilling a hole and inserting a borescope into the safe to get an intimate look into a specific part of the security container. When manipulation-proof mechanical locks and glass re-lockers are implemented as security measures, scoping is the most practical option.

  3. Cary Safe Company - Wikipedia

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    A majority of the safes sold by Cary had letters painted to the purchaser's request on the upper portion of the safe. Typically common was a customer's family name or the name of a business. Every Cary safe was built fire and burglar-proof. The company also manufactured intricate time locks and combination locks, (standard key) locks, and ...

  4. Safe - Wikipedia

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    Safe-cracking is opening a safe without a combination or key. There are many methods of safe-cracking ranging from brute force methods to guessing the combination. The easiest method that can be used on many safes is "safe bouncing", which involves hitting the safe on top; this may cause the locking pin to budge, opening the safe [citation needed].

  5. Combination lock - Wikipedia

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    A Wordlock letter combination lock.. A combination lock is a type of locking device in which a sequence of symbols, usually numbers, is used to open the lock. The sequence may be entered using a single rotating dial which interacts with several discs or cams, by using a set of several rotating discs with inscribed symbols which directly interact with the locking mechanism, or through an ...

  6. Dresser Industries - Wikipedia

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    Komatsu Limited and Dresser Industries established Komatsu Dresser to make mining tractors, construction equipment and related equipment. [15] This 50-50 ownership lasted from September 1988 to August 1994, when Komatsu bought out Dresser's share. [15] By 1993, it generated sales of more than US$4 billion, and employed 31,800 people in fifty ...

  7. Fail-safe - Wikipedia

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    Motorized gates – In case of power outage the gate can be pushed open by hand with no crank or key required. However, as this would allow virtually anyone to go through the gate, a fail-secure design is used: In a power outage, the gate can only be opened by a hand crank that is usually kept in a safe area or under lock and key. When such a ...

  8. Auto-defrost - Wikipedia

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    While this technique was originally applied to the refrigerator compartment, it was later used for freezer compartment as well. A combined refrigerator/freezer which applies self-defrosting to the refrigerator compartment only is usually called "partial frost free" or semi-automatic defrost (some brands call these "Auto Defrost" while Frigidaire referred to their semi-automatic models as ...

  9. Weak key - Wikipedia

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    Using weak keys, the outcome of the Permuted Choice 1 (PC-1) in the DES key schedule leads to round keys being either all zeros, all ones or alternating zero-one patterns. Since all the subkeys are identical, and DES is a Feistel network , the encryption function is self-inverting; that is, despite encrypting once giving a secure-looking cipher ...