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"How do you know where to drill it? The lock has the manufacturers logo on the front face – drill the side of the lock in line with the top of the logo. How helpful!"

In that case easy, move the logo elsewhere.



Security by obfuscation, anyone?

He's being flippant. If the logo wasn't there, it would just be a case of measuring N cm to know where to drill.


If you look at the internals of the lock then the tolerance where to drill, and still be able to leverage it open, seems to be pretty big.

As such, they could remove the whole logo and it would still rather easy to approximate where to drill, it's not like measuring dimensions is impossible without a manufacturer logo.


As pointed above, it was a joke about security through obscurity and a worried thought that some manager might actually think of that as a solution. I was hoping that was obvious enough to not require a "/s" at the end.




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