Locks keep honest people honest and that’s it. Also, a lot of anecdotes here. If you want into most luggage, not all, you just push a ballpoint pen into the teeth of the zipper. You’re stronger and smarter than any box, and don’t let them tell you otherwise.
Three digit combination locks are not that secure in general. Assuming one second per attempt, it takes at most 17 minutes to brute force. 000 would definitely be the first combination most any brute force attacker would try though.
Whwn i was a child, for some reason i was responsible for all our luggage passwords. I don’t know why it happened or who thought that was a good idea. Anyway, i somwtimes forgot one after a year of not using one of four luggages or someone maybe changed it by accident. I brute forced so many of them, it’s shockingly easy. Especially if you gamble and start with 555 or whatever. One time it took me forever, because i just assimes it wasn’t 000 and started with 001
Really, no one posting this? Fine, here you go:
Trump’s nuclear launch code.
I’m surrounded by Assholes!
Luggage aplenty in the airport, just have to make yours more trouble to get into. Which is why I put a keyring through both zippers rather than a lock.
My bigger concern is being able to identify my luggage at a glance, so I paint all of the edges on mine neon yellow.
I did and forgot it. Took 4 minutes to get to the high 200s where it was.
One time I was in the car with a friend who had just gotten a new piece of luggage. He was fiddling with it and told me that he had set a new code on it. I asked “Is it XXX” (some random 3 digit number I made up but forgot). It was Somehow, I got the 1 in 1000 chance and really did guess his luggage code first try
We once had a band room and we used 2 different combinations to get in the building and then room. I still remember my friend going: the first one is BLINK 182 and then we walked to the second one and he was like: this one is 667, because it’s the neighbour of the devil. That was like 18 years ago.
Last year i went to do an escape room, with people completely unrelated to the band and that friend group. There were two combination locks, and instead of solving puzzles, i was like: this one is 182 because BLINK 182 and it opened. The second one i said: this has to be 667, because it’s the neighbour of the devil. And it opened. “Solved” the whole thing in 20 seconds, and i still refuse to elaborate. I mean there isn’t much to elaborate, but they don’t know that
If you don’t because you think you have nothing worth stealing, consider that some joker can open your bag and set your combination to something else.
Yes, of course.
No, because I don’t buy combo locks for luggage. Way to easy to break open.
And TSA will just cut them off.
They can fuck right off. TSA has no authority where I am travelling.
I don’t have any luggage or bags that use locks like that.
There is no point.
There is a point: make your bag slightly less attractive to steal from. You don’t have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun someone else.
Oh, you’re telling the little outrun the bear story… But you didn’t cover the part about putting on the tennis shoes.
What you have to learn is which bear to outrun. You have to do a proper risk assessment.
All your useless little lock does is tell thieves that there might be something of value to steal in your luggage so they’ll target yours.
I think my running shoes are faster than yours now
You don’t have to outrun any bears. That’s the entire point of the metaphor.
WTF are they going to steal? your underwear?
Anyone stealing luggage won’t give a shit about some POS tumbler lock…
The risk with your luggage is that its get lost.
You said there’s no point. I contend there is a point.
The point is to make it slightly less convenient to steal from. This is the purpose of literally all locks. There are no locks that can’t be picked or bypassed. I don’t care if it’s my underwear, pants, shirts, shoes, whatever. They’re mine and I packed them because I want to use them. I’d prefer they’re not stolen, and some of my clothes are valuable, or at least I don’t want to spend the money to replace them.
Maybe someone’s just having a shit day and wants to fuck with luggage to be obnoxious. I’d rather it not be mine, and a lock makes my bag slightly more annoying to fuck with.
Agreed that a lost bag is much more likely than theft. I have an AirTag in my bag to help with that scenario.
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My luggage leaves my direct sight exactly zero times. Gonna be akward to steal from it…
I think the implication is that OP uses tiny padlocks, but okay
Yeah I agree. I don’t keep anything valuable in my luggage because I don’t need the risk when checked. I could lose my luggage and it would just be boo hoo. A bunch of clothes lol sucks but not the end of the world.
I just have a lockable zipper on my personal item. That’s been enough all these years, plus common sense. xD
Wouldn’t you like to know.
Wait what, how do you know my code?
Usually only if I want to reduce the risk of things being stolen out of my luggage.
