Awesome video, great explanation of passive keys. Didn't know any of those were master keyed also. I grabbed 6, I know I picked them all but only gutted a couple. Glad you got them, absolutely love the tutorials you give.
So basically you can drill all the 5 holes into your key and get access to 100 locks ? Sure hope they use different active pins in a given area ! Imagine all of your neighbors have the same key but with different passive pins what a huge security flaw that would be.
I always thought it was a different way of masterkeying. Imagine a building divided in zones, using the same bitting but different passive pins. The cantina, where everybody can go, would have no passive pins, so all keys would work. The masterkey would have all five dimples on both sides, so it could open all locks. Anyway, great explanation!
That would be very weak security since any bozo with a drill bit could "upgrade" his storage key or whatever to a master key... (and the other way around just plug the holes with some glue or smth). People figure this out. Usually you want a master key with more material on at least one position than the normal keys, so that someone with a relatively unimportant key can't just file off some metal off his key and so duplicate a master key if he gets to hold it for a few minutes one day.
Really interesting and perfectly explained thank you , ironically I've just got a beautiful DOM Euro cylinder with exactly the same set up, which I'll be picking into some time over this weekend, great video
So if someone wishes to break the passive pins they just need to know where the passive pin locations are and drill all 5 holes all the way through, suddenly the passive pins are rendered useless? They don't seem to offer much at all. Even a bump key could work with a groove added rather than just easy through holes.
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This is a really interesting video. Always wondered what the value of Passive Pins were. Now I know, money and Locksmith patch protection 🤔
Awesome video, great explanation of passive keys. Didn't know any of those were master keyed also. I grabbed 6, I know I picked them all but only gutted a couple. Glad you got them, absolutely love the tutorials you give.
So basically you can drill all the 5 holes into your key and get access to 100 locks ? Sure hope they use different active pins in a given area ! Imagine all of your neighbors have the same key but with different passive pins what a huge security flaw that would be.
I always thought it was a different way of masterkeying. Imagine a building divided in zones, using the same bitting but different passive pins. The cantina, where everybody can go, would have no passive pins, so all keys would work. The masterkey would have all five dimples on both sides, so it could open all locks.
Anyway, great explanation!
That would be very weak security since any bozo with a drill bit could "upgrade" his storage key or whatever to a master key... (and the other way around just plug the holes with some glue or smth). People figure this out.
Usually you want a master key with more material on at least one position than the normal keys, so that someone with a relatively unimportant key can't just file off some metal off his key and so duplicate a master key if he gets to hold it for a few minutes one day.
Awesome explanation of how the passive pins work! I love all of your explanation videos! Keep up the good work!
Nice one! Been meaning to investigate passive key control for a while, but now i dont need to as you explained it clear as day 👍
Really interesting and perfectly explained thank you , ironically I've just got a beautiful DOM Euro cylinder with exactly the same set up, which I'll be picking into some time over this weekend, great video
Awesome, hope you get it open.
Very nice and informative! Could almost not get pass the poor audio though... too bad
Thank you! I recently got one of these.
If you're willing to put more passive pins in the available spaces, it makes there be 1024 possible keys with just passive pin modifications.
Nice explanation, but what's to stop someone putting "diverts " all the way down the length of the key???
On to part 2🤔😎😎👍👍😍
See Brian's comment. Easier just to SPP the thing though. Ironically.
So if someone wishes to break the passive pins they just need to know where the passive pin locations are and drill all 5 holes all the way through, suddenly the passive pins are rendered useless? They don't seem to offer much at all. Even a bump key could work with a groove added rather than just easy through holes.
just make a hole in all of the points.
you'll have a master key