vector40 wrote:Only if you factor in, like, the entire world. If you limit by keys within a region, then keys within a particular brand and keyways, it's a pretty small risk.
The main concern is when you get into matters like very large master systems where many of the factors are limited... then cross-keying, or getting awfully near it, is indeed a danger.
Ok, the world isn't that small, true enough.
But then again, i remember my dad sticking his key in the wrong car in a French garage, the car opened without hesitation or jiggling.
It was a clean entry and turn of a key. Found it characteristic, and it drove the feeling home that there are limits to all things. And weaknesses.
As i withnessed it, i remember being very interested in the mechanism.
I mean, how on earth could a car that belongs to a French stranger, work on my dad's Dutch key?
Made me think.
I guess that moment was the driving force after getting me lockpicking, weakness by design.
Keyring wrote:If that worries you, what about 4 digit PINs on credit/debit cards?
Worry is a big word, just found it realy fitting to human nature that all "code combinations" has its limits. That's all.