But if one pin has a single split it works at two heights which means two keys will open the same lock. If you now assume only four hights due to split pin usage, you get 1K and 4K combinations. However in reality due to key profile and lock wear a large number of the combinations either cannot or don’t get used. You can make upto eight seperate pin hights per pin giving you a maximum of 32K / 2M combinations of unique key.
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The numbers of master key and guest keys is quite large in a standard five or seven pin type Yale lock. The trouble with “master keys” is it is usually not possible by inexperianced eye to tell what type of key is which so it is possible for a hotel master to be put on a room key fob… In the lock industry keys that open more than one door are often known as “masters” so 2 above is a “floor master” and 3 a “hotel master”. The locks are usually aranged in groups so that,ġ, A “guests key” should only open the door to their room.Ģ, A floor “maids key” should only open doors on the floor they work.ģ, maintanence and similar staff get “managers key” that open all doors. The old mechanical locks in hotels often have split pins so that more than one key will open a given door. “I can only assume that rooms in the same position on different floors had the same key!” Oh and some hotels issue their receptionists with wedding rings to wear when on duty to apparently stop “American business men propositioning them”… I was suitably surprised but didn’t manage to get her to go to dinner 8( After a couple more she said pick a number which I did and her colleague got it spot on. Her colleague said room 470 which was the first on the list. She wrote a bunch of room numbers down on a piece of paper, then said to her colleague “left handed shoots cuffs fiddles with ring on right finger”. I gave her a questioning look and she proved her point. She explained that everybody had a manner as well as a look and the manner was usually the determaning thing. I asked one (quite attractive) receptionist in a very large German hotel how she did it and she said that it was quite simple… Having designed electronic locks for the hotel industry the one thing that alwaysd surprised me was how the receptionists could remember guests and their room numbers, names etc. His partner watches the mark while the thief calls security. Next step, in big cases: the thief wants safety box access in that room. That’s all the ID required to get a room key. Then the thief goes out to his van and makes a fake ID with the mark’s info and his own picture. They casually ask front desk staff for a preliminary bill, which is printed and given, and includes the mark’s name and address. (BRUCE: should we really publish this? You decide.) They find out the room number of their mark. Here’s one way sophisticated thieves get keys to a room they specifically target, for example those of “whales” (huge gamblers) in Vegas, jewelry salesmen, or whomever they target.
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I stay in hotels 200+ days a year (for the past 16 years). Hotel security is useless, even if it is pretended. I’m often given replacement keys without ID.
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Doubtless the fact that I had physical possession of a keycard (but not necessarily the one for the room I was asking about), along with the “I can’t believe I’ve forgotten my room number” embarassed attitude, helped. Only after did I realize I had done some social engineering hotels won’t normally give out someone else’s room number, or even confirm that they’ve checked in. There was no validation at all, just a name lookup and I was given the room number. And like crossing a border, sometimes it’s just ” here you go, have a nice day”…Ī related curiosity I encountered a couple of years ago was when I checked in, dropped off my stuff, and promptly forgot my room number! I approached the front desk, suitably embarassed (genuine) and tapping my (unlabeled for security reasons, of course) room keycard on the counter.
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Other times it’s “we need to see your driver’s licence plus one other photo-ID”.
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Sometimes it’s a sort of challenge-response scheme, where they’ll ask when did we check in, how many keys were issued, etc. Certainly it’s not related to how upscale the hotel is, other then at the very top and bottom ends. I’ve found (well, my wife has found, since I never lose my key…) that it varies tremendously, based on nothing I can figure out.