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Are all locks different

Updated: 8/16/2019
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In reality no.

With mechanical keys there is a limited number of possible combinations, but as long as they're sufficiently mixed up and no one knows which goes where it's considered safe enough. No burglar is going to carry around several hundreds of keys for each brand of locks in the blind hope that one of them would work.

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