Great job - one of your better talks.

Keys mentioned in this video, to save others the trouble: C415A cabinets, A126 Linear elevators/misc, CH751 gas pumps/RVs/misc, 501CH cabinets/boxes, CC1 golf carts, 1284X Crown Victoria taxi/police, FEO-K1 fire/elevators, CG1 government, 2642 and 1620 fire/elevators. Might have missed a few but that’s what I was able to catch 😊

“Dance as if nobody is watching. Encrypt as if EVERYONE is.” what an absolutely incredible shirt

I'm pretty sure with each of these sort of talks, my search history lands me on yet another watchlist.

So, I used to deliver stuff to construction sites. Frequently I would arrive on the job site with a semi load of stuff late at night and sleep onsite to be ready at 6am for unload. The contractors were "supposed to" make sure that I had entry access to the site for my rig. One time I arrived at about 10pm with the crane and crew that was to unload me the next morning only to find 3' deep 15 ft long ditch along with a 4' tall 20' long pile of dirt blocking the only entry that I could fit through. The GC was fully aware that I was enroute and that he was supposed to provide entry access to the site. The contractor's truck was an old military blazer, that was parked in front of his Cat front end loader . Both use "master keys". 30 minutes later my semi was parked on site and I was sharing a beer with my next morning's unload crew. There was also a Kubota that we could have used, and a few thousand dollars worth of tools that could have (but didn't) quite easily had bad things happen to them. The construction crew's stares at finding me parked on site with everything parked exactly where it had been left was priceless. Construction sites at night are a security nightmare. BTW, this happened in a fairly major east cost city, on a major 6 lane road, within 100 ft of a residential area and we watched police drive right by us several times, not once slowing down.

So I just started watching these a few days ago, I decided to look up 1284x and my city. Not only did it tell me that the city police department use it, there was a brochure that lists every key used in the cars to do things like lock cabinets and gun locks. It also lists that they are keyed alike. A total of 7.... WTF!

I literally went to my junk drawer and found a CH751 key just now

When I was in college I was at a friends apartment, and his neighbor locked herself out of her apartment. Long story short, we tried our keys in her door - and mine opened it. So we tried it on his door - and it opened it. So we knocked on another neighbors door and asked if we could try my key, and it opened the door. I had a master key to that apartment complex. We told the manager, who called the manager of my apartment complex, and I got a rekeyed door. I'm sure they didn't change the master for the other complex. That would cost too much.

This actually happened to my grandfather. He came by and picked up his grandkids, (myself brothers and sister) to go to an amusement park. He has in a tan Ford minivan. when we came out their 20 other Ford tan minivans. My grandfather was able to get into 15 of those mini vans before he found his. Now that I think about it that was just stupid.

The MK1 Ford Fiesta was all keyed alike. My dad found that out at Glastonbury when he woke up in the wrong car.

I've always had a secondary useless key on my key chain that was from a bike lock that I've lost somewhere, but the key is thin and fancy enough to poke things at with. So I've looked up CH751, compared it to an image, exact match. I was not expecting it to match, since I'm in Russia and all this stuff Deviant talks is related to stuff in USA, but, holy shit.

My notes from this video: FEO-K1 A126 linear CH751 501CH C346A C390A C413A C415A C420A C642A 1284X 2642 6642 1620 3910 CC1 golf cart Arcade cabinets have keyed-alike Slot machine keyed-alike Caterpillar keyed-alike Instacode app Snap decoder app Instacode live app USPS keyed-alike NOX box keyed-alike

you have a great knack for making me spend hours of my life tumbling down rabbit holes of con talks

So moved into a house 3 years ago, previous owners had a lock on the wooden cabinet.......after watching this I checked the key that was left in the lock....... Freaking C415A

My 2nd key chain is getting heavier and heavier every time i watch deviants talks. Lol

The mailbox key I carried when I was in high school would start any club car golf cart.

"Sir can I help you!?" "No it's cool man, I caught the Pikachu." LMFAO

responding to someone asking you what you’re doing while you’re tampering with a Knox box with “nah it’s cool man, i caught the Pikachu” is one of the greatest things i’ve ever heard of happening 😂

i had a boss once who lost a key to a forklift he was going nuts since we needed that forklift(it was our biggest) so i just walk to a smaller one and grab the key he didnt belive his eyes when that key fit (it was a 1ton vs a 16ton)

I was an RV Mechanic in a past life and can confirm CH751 all the things!

I had a pilot tell me once that if the big one went down he'd go to the airport with his Cessna key and just start trying it out and would certainly find one it worked sooner rather than later. Planes are like cars only moreso in that they have intrinsic value as long as they work and can pass their obligatory inspections, so it's not unusual to see planes from the 70s, 80s, even 50s or earlier still kicking around.

Your talks have really gotten me into lockpicking, and your other talk with Howard, from the pit to the penthouse, made me really realize how cool elevators are.

the whole heavy equipment thing is no joke, my dad sold equipment for like 16 years and he bought a comprehensive set from his employer for like 100 bucks with about 25 or 30 keys to fit all machines bc they all use a single bitting

I can remember taking a road trip vacation as a kid. We had a Ford truck from the '80s. We pulled up to a rest stop and there was a family with a similar Ford truck who had locked their keys in their truck. The key to our truck worked perfectly. BTW, thieves just cut hydraulic lines and drop elevated things on jobsites. Been there, had to deal with it.

One time when I was little my extended family went out to the lake, and my uncle dropped the keys to our ride, an '82 E150 conversion van in the lake. We were vacationing with friends of the family who restored old Mustangs. One of uncle's friend's '65 Mustang keys worked in the van.

That picture of the Knox box, without the door, is common. During construction the fire department keeps the door and key, and upon final inspection everyone gets together. The owner places the keys inside, the alarm installer hooked up the tamper (otherwise it would be in trouble for several weeks) and the fire marshal locks it up.

Last plane I was on, was running Widows 10. I asked the captain and he said he has no idea how it got on their system. The plane was running Windows 7 last time he checked. ;)

I work at a place that was given a free Husky tool cabinet. It was unlock and had no keys. I looked up husky key and the code that was on the cam lock and a seller on eBay makes that key. We use that box to stop kids who come to our building from touching stuff. Nothing that needs to be super secured is in it. We have filing cabinets that have the code written on the cam lock. It is super easy to get the key for them.

when i worked at a construction equipment rental, we all had a key copy of each brand, so we can drive them to the maintenance garage, that's when i realised each brand key will work most of the time on other equipment of the same brand

So I live in Australia, and while listening to this talk, noticed a key sitting under some piled up crap on my desk at home.... C415A. "Made in U.S.A.". No idea where I got it from, but it's going onto my keyring 😊

My friend who had a Peugeot 106 at one point once walked up to a car, opened the door, started the engine and then noticed the radio is different and doesn't play his music. He then looked around, turned the car off, locked it up and found his actual car a few cars further down the street. Exact same model, color, and everything.

Fantastic talk. Saved to my list of favorites.

When they brought up the elevator key around 41:11, I nearly freaked out because I instantly recognised it. I'm not a physical pentester; I've only shimmed a combination lock out of curiosity, but knowing that this key works on elevators and apartment doors is mind-boggling

Sweet! a copy of the talk that isn't all chopped up and broken ;) Thanks Nite0wl! and thanks Howard & Deviant for an amazing talk!

19:00 The Ilco Key Reference guide is still available online... but having worked with construction crews for years, I can tell you that the majority of their equipment has their keys tucked into a panel on the tractor or hanging in a wheel well. They have no security whatsoever, and then wonder how someone made off with their skid loader over the weekend...

I love this stuff I worked security for a year and got a knack for keys and locks that my friends find disturbing. I would love this kind of job because it is just what I find interesting by means of security. As I tell everyone there is no such thing as perfect security just the amount you need for what you are dealing with

Always love your talks, great combo of humor and funny shit and actually learning. Not a lot of people can nail that down. Side note - told my buddy who is a heavy equipment operator about the fact that most of them are keyed alike and he just kinda went "yeah, and?" and didn't recognize the potential for very bad things to happen with that. Found it interesting.

This my favorite talk of all time.

You guys always do the best presentations.

The great thing about heavy equipment is that they almost always just leave the key in the unlocked cab

“Veritasium, Derek from New Zealand” Australians: 🤦🏼‍♂️

Want to get into those semi-public rest rooms in a building that puts keypads on the door handles? Try using the building's address as the door code.

Great talk, you are easily one of the best speakers.

Just looked in my pile of used keys, I have a ring of 9 ch751's, omg

Thumbs up, loved the presentation - thank you.

I swear I've got to just buy a bunch of these keys, since they all seem to come in like packs of 5 or 10 or whatever. I'll buy like 30-50 of each key, I'll just assemble "get into anything" Deviant Ollam kits then I'll throw them in a mini knock off pelican case with a mid-level lock pick set, a tubular pick, a Wera '6 shooter', a small electric screwdriver and bit set for taking apart comm boxes, a handcuff key and like a writable HID pass badge with a fake elevator repair technician ID on one side and "I'm a hacker, don't let me touch your computers" on the backside. I could make so much money.

CH751 is so common it's literally the key my van uses for the cabinets, the thermostats at work, etc.

Another great talk. Thanks for sharing, man.

It's about time there was another Video. :). Thanks Deviant.

Having worked in Casinos as a Locksmith for over fifteen years, most casinos do not keep the same locks as what ships on the machines. Yes, there was probably a couple of companies stupid enough to keep the original cylinders which are always a specific key to every machine they build, but in the casinos I have worked in, both as Employee and as outside contractor, the locks on the machines were Medico. Also, in the state of Nevada, an internal locksmith (Employee of the Casino) is not allowed to re-key the machines. That MUST be done by an outside contractor. I worked in a few medium and The LARGEST casino, also my software is used in a lot of the casinos in Las Vegas. I personally know a LOT of the locksmiths there. Only a little casino cutting corners would have this issue, and they are breaking the law by not replacing the locks from the factory. I last worked in a Casino in 2004, so my information predates this video.

Watching this, 4.5 years later. I naively checked for a pinned comment from Deviant telling us that the state, or vendor got back to them informing that the 2-4-6 key was solved. dont know why i was expecting that

speaking of cop cars that look like cabs and vice versa, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, there is a cab company called Newfound Cabs whose cars are painted in a blue and white paint scheme that looks very similar to the blue and white paint scheme on RNC's (local cops) cars. There have been many people who've inadvertently opened the back door of a cop car and gotten in thinking they'd grabbed a cab, and people who've ran away from a cab pulling up because they thought the cops were gonna take them in.

2016: "It's online, and I'm sure it won't be for very long" 2023: still online

Decided since I was on shift at the gas station I work at, I'll check the pump key. CH751.

I worked for a company that had 2 gallon size bags of CH751 keys... Glad I got one. Now I gotta try it on EVERYTHING

It's been a while, great to see you putting some new shit up. Awesome, like always.

As I was told when I was younger. Locks are not meant to keep bad people out, they are meant to keep honest men honest.

Most locks just keep honest people out. :-)

If anyone is wondering what kind of Whiskey is on the table, it's probably a Bunnahabhain. I have one on my shelf that looks exactly like that one.

Great video, amazing information. I wish you had talked about the 1980s to 90s Toyota trucks where about 7 out of ten were keyed alike

I have a PacMan key from my grandma who owned a 7-Eleven! I am so glad other people know about this kind of stuff. I have a considerable amount of elevator, fire alarm, golf cart, etc keys in my collection, and of course that means CH751 and CAT30. I have a feeling I am going to be a fan of this channel.

I really enjoyed. I would like to go to one of these.

this talk made me realize that my rollercoaster key from back in the day (that ran almost every ride in the park, and was also the maintenance key) is a generic Do18.

took me 30 seconds to find C415A, it was less than 5 feet from me.

Those blue screws are Tapcons they are specifically designed for stone and concrete. They are made from hardened steel and come in all sorts of lengths and thicknesses. Those blue screws are strong AF, bad example guys those where the proper fasteners for the application.

Old SAAB 900 had the only 4 different door key. Time to get all of these :D

I could rake that AMI Juke Box lock open faster than I can find it on my keyring. C415A & CH751 keys are used on tonnes of stuff from valve boxes, fire alarm cabs, gas pumps, campers, RVs, boats, semi truck fire extinguisher boxes, tool boxes, file cabinets, etc. etc. ad nauseum. I think half the electrical panels GE sold between 1970 and 2009 are all this same key too. My mail box was one of these keys, until I put a Dom lock on it.

Great talk.

But the simplex pull station is probably a c415a or ch751. I know the pull stations and alarm panel at my school are c415a because it labeled on each device.

I am a flatbed truck driver, and since getting my truck, I noticed a pair of keys attached to the sun visor (meant for the storage compartment above the windshield). After hearing about CH751, I immediately looked at the code on those keys. Sure e-freaking-nough... CH751...

Here in finland our Knox boxes are Abloy containers normally drilled inside of house. So only small round end of tube is showing and its with abloy lock (like here, almost everything is locked with Abloys). Example is ABLOY KD201

It's crazy, what a small world. I grew up and live in the same town you used to live in.

So happy this ended up recorded :D

It's October 2018, and I saw the PDF of the Ilco key reference online withing the past two months.

Same damn key I had at work for years with cabinets and on my folks camper.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that when the missile silo was decommissioned they removed the actual locks and the museum folks replaced them with a civilian version...I hope

Lol feok1. I have 50 in my basement. I never realized until i came across these videos of yours how vulnerable these points are. All of my keys work on nearly every elevator I work on. I have my sets all lined up for any given job. Never thought about how easy it would be for someone to use it to their own ends. I am chewing my way through your videos my friend. If you ever come up to Calgary you have a scotch waiting for you.

Dude I had that key literally 30 years ago!!!!

Do another talk with Howard!!!

Many years ago my stepfather was a Harley mechanic and my juvenile delinquent cousin had a 80 something sportster with a key that started half of the $100000 custom bikes in his shop.

On padlocks; I learned in highschool that if you put some pressure on the lock while rotating the dial, you can usually feel when it hits the correct number. I had a very hard to remember combination and didn't use my locker very often as I only had two classes that semester, so would usually end up having to do this to get it open. Used this discovery to mess with my friends, would rearrange their stuff and hide notebooks on them

The majority of UK construction plant and machinery is one of four keys. That's why almost everything has a second isolator or transponder now. We also have more CCTV per person than any other country in the world.

Now imagine a key with a controller, actuators and display at the back where you set the code and it adjusts the bitting by moving some wires into place...

Just found a CH751 at my house. I forgot we had a travel trailer with LOCKING compartment storage 🤣 CH751? Check! Time to go do Deviant things...to locks I already own lmao

In my limited experience….the key is always still in the heavy equipment.

Buying the uncommon part and having to pay more is so true.

Deviant, my estimation of you increased a notch when I spotted Scotch in the boxes. Good man.

Growing up we had a Cherokee and a Wrangler one MY apart. Different keys but one Jeep's key would open the doors of the other but not start it. Interestingly the other was the other way around, you couldn't open the door but you could start it.

This key is my key, this key is your key, and this key is not like the others

Haha, you guys already had me checking out every elevator I stepped into. Now I'll be compelled to check out every lock to see if these idiotic practices are also in place in Europe. xD

oct 19, 2018. pdf is still online.

Thumbs up for the Poke' Hack.

"won't let you in" ... Never owned an RV these guys. There's always an emergency exit(entrance) somewhere in the back, that goes OUT (read in) one of those luggage holders on the side. Through, say, a bathroom closet with a false bottom....

That CH751 looks like what holds the toilet paper holder shut at work (but they use it as a knob leave it in whatever one was refilled last because we're adults and none of us want to steal the 1/2-ply TP they use)

I worked at a grocery store. The office where money was held could be opened with a pen and the cashbox at self check could be unlocked with any key that was small enough to fit in the lock.

Weld and grind your doors, Everytime.

Wow. I had an old police interceptor for years, and I remember wht the key looked like because it kept breaking in the middle. It looked exactly like the key shown in the instacode segment. It was definitely a 1284x

Out of curiosity after I watched this I wondered if I already had any of these common keys and pulled out my keys to look. While I did not find any of these common keys, I did discover that the key to my house and my parents is the same along with a third key that I don't remember what it is for at all.

omg this was basically me in 6th grade... I had a box of keys and o refined it down to about 6 that could get into a majority of things like cabinets and doors...

27:40 "its not necessarily so obvious if you're not going to sit there and study it" That is what random is, every time, with or without computers. It only exists as a consequence of perception