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This story first appeared in WIRED 13.02 published in February, 2005. For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front ...
Fortune Brands acquired Master Lock in 1970 and spun it off as a separate company in 2011. By the mid-1980s, the company had about 1,300 workers at the Milwaukee facility.
“Master Lock No. 3s and related locks (#5, # 6, #7 etc.) have long been know by the lock sport community to be easy (in general) to rake open, shim, shiv or do a number of attacks against ...
There's a vulnerability in Master Lock branded padlocks that allows anyone to learn the combination in eight or fewer tries, a process that requires less than two minutes and a minimal amount of ...
Rochester-based Sentry Safe has been sold to The Master Lock Co. for $117.5 million. Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc., Master’s parent company, revealed the acquisition as part of its second ...