{"id":271,"date":"2021-11-13T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/?p=271"},"modified":"2022-09-06T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:59:21","slug":"properly-securing-a-pacsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/2021\/11\/13\/properly-securing-a-pacsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Properly Securing a Pacsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3kvCCKH\">Pacsafe<\/a> gear, I use their wallet, a laptop bag, and motorcycle bags.\u00a0 I use their laptop bag when I&#8217;m on the road because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bew4pBYmTFI\">hotel safes are not secure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering cabin fever I decided to pick locks and see how quickly I could open the cheap locks we use around the house.\u00a0 Pretty quickly, it turns out.\u00a0 I picked a Pacsafe lock in maybe 30 seconds.\u00a0 What?\u00a0 Am I really that bad-ass?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It turns out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dqmwg5FHbZM\">Pacsafe locks are jokes<\/a>.\u00a0 That video is a good demo of why I like Pacsafe, but also why you really need to replace their lock.<\/p>\n<p>I did some measuring and ordered an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3wKrnD2\">ABUS 83WP-IB\/53 Submariner<\/a>.\u00a0 Since I park my motorcycle outside in the rain, I figured getting a weatherproof lock made sense and there&#8217;s no harm using it with my hotel Pacsafe or luggage.\u00a0 What I would like is to get several of these keyed alike, but that&#8217;s a small investment just to have the same key for a few padlocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a pretty big fan of Pacsafe gear, I use their wallet, a laptop bag, and motorcycle bags.\u00a0 I use their laptop bag when I&#8217;m on the road because hotel safes are not secure. Suffering cabin fever I decided to pick locks and see how quickly I could open the cheap locks we use around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.functionalprototype.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}