Hiding places

Ed Pawlowski wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

you consider a dealer that actually does the service manual's required checks a "thief"? maybe you're buying cars from the wrong car companies.

BTW,I bought myself a MasterFlow MF-1040 12V air compressor,so I can inflate a low tire while away from home or gas station. living in an apartment,it's well worth it.I have no place to keep a 120VAC compressor,and no outlet close to the car to plug one in..

You could. The methods I showed were ones where the computation is VERY easy (my reason for working on only 1 digit at a time). This encoding/decoding can be done in real time, with no aids (like calculators), writing NOTHING but the result.

BTW, I like to use '$' to indicate hex, so 1963 = $7AB

DerbyDad03 wrote: >> >> >>> On Aug 22, 2:11?pm, Mark Lloyd wrote: >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >>

On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:19:51 PM UTC-4, Doug Miller wrote: >> >> >>> > >>

micky wrote in news:bcb738t0ftffrte2jev3b2famvdffcn7h8@ 4ax.com: > And thanks, I had a house key in my last car's trunk, and I really > should have hidden it. So now I know what to hide. Although I > think under the turnk carpet will be good enough. When we lived out in

hid the key in a really good hiding place, then put an old, obsolete key in a fairly obvious hiding place. I figure that anyone finding the old key will try in in the door, see it doesn't work, and quit looking for more keys. >> >> >>>

the >> >> >>> > code on it, I drew a line through it (still leaving it readable) and >> >> >>> > wrote a fake code next to it. >> >> >>> >> >> >>> > -- >> >> >>>

self-inflicted stupidity." -- Barry B. Longyear, The >> >> >>> > Tomorrow Testament >> >> >>> >> >> >>> What did you do with the paper? >> >> >> >> >>

each >> >> >number. >> >> >Or subtract 3 >> >> >or subtract 5

I are a engineer. ;-)

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:06:46 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote:

:On 08/22/2012 09:39 PM, Metspitzer wrote: :> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:52:30 -0700 (PDT), Harry K :> wrote: : :[snip] : :> Engrave the combination on the back of the lock. Add 4 to each :> number. :> Or subtract 3 :> or subtract 5 : :I often use a XS3 (excess 3) code. It's very easy to encode. Just add 3 :to each digit (IGNORE CARRIES). For example, to encode 3728: : :3 + 3 = 6 :7 + 3 = 0 (remember to ignore carries) :2 + 3 = 5 :8 + 3 = 1 (remember you're ignoring carries) : :the encoded number is then 6051. : :Decoding: : :6 - 3 = 3 :0 - 3 = 7 (ignore carries again) :5 - 3 = 2 :1 - 3 = 8 (still ignore the carry) : :it's 3728. : :With a little practice I could do this without writing down ANYTHING but :the encoded number. The arithmetic is on individual digits only, so it's :a lot simpler than ordinary addition / subtraction. : :You could use hexadecimal, and then there's be no carries to deal with: : :3 + 3 = 6 :7 + 3 = A :2 + 3 = 5 :8 + 3 = B : :6 - 3 = 3 :A - 3 = 7 :5 - 3 = 2 :B - 3 = 8 : :That could help confuse things, since 6A5B looks less like a number than :6051. In case you don't know hex A = 10, B = 11, C = 12. : :BTW, thinking of hex, the TV series "Doctor Who" began in the year 7AB. : :I've also done nines compliment, which is even easier. Subtract each :digit from 9. For example, starting with 3728: : :9 - 3 = 6 :9 - 7 = 2 :9 - 2 = 7 :9 - 8 = 1 : :Decoding uses the same process: : :9 - 6 = 3 :9 - 2 = 7 :9 - 7 = 2 :9 - 1 = 8

This is really good stuff. Guess I'll squirrel it away in a database. I do have a combination lock or two but I never use them. Many years ago I bought a matched set of Master locks that all use the same key. So much easier to use a key than fiddle with combination locks.

Dan

Email: dmusicant at pacbell dot net

I think I'll get a statue of a convict in a prison uniform and hide things up its butt, nobody would ever think of looking there. ^_^

TDD

Suspect Denies Owning Cocaine In His Butt

Honest officer, I don't know how that dope got up my butt! O_o

So now, if you get pulled over for speeding and the cop doesn't like what he smells, he will search your butt? O_o

TDD

Why not believe him? He looks like an honest guy and would not lie. He may have been sitting in the wrong place or at a bar and he thought the guy next to him was just fondling his ass.

These things happen don't they?

With a combination lock, it's harder for someone to steal the key. Maybe that's why they used combination locks on school lockers.

Check this out: O_o

It's *much* easier to steal a combination than a key and it's not noticed when it goes missing. When I was in school, locks were bought from the school and they maintained a list of combinations (IIRC, it was just a hash of the S/N) and they had a master key for the locks. There was no expectation of privacy on public property, even then.

Yes. I don't lock my doors when I drive, but a lot of people do.

I have to take the door apart to add something. Now that you make the same point, maybe I'll look for whatever stops the inside door handle, and if it's not the same thing that stops the outside door handle, I'll defeat it.

The shop manual won't show it, i'm sure.

Just like the phony house key under the mat, I use to keep imitation cocaine in an obvious place in my locker, so when they found that and tested it, I figure they wouldn't look for the well-hidden real cocaine.

Last four or five cars I've had the door lock when you put the shift lever in Drive.

We rent a lot of cars and that is the first setup option we turn off.

My wife's car locks the doors when it starts moving. My truck doesn't auto-lock the doors, at all.

I turn off the infernal seat belt alarm on mine.

Pot? Yeah that is mine. Coke? No! That is not mine. Car keys?..........Yeah, those are mine. Have you seen a remote for the TV?