Any IBM Power / AIX fans out there?

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > True, but a locksmith could help by removing all the pins from the
> > cylinder, so that any key, or a screwdriver, or what-not, could switch
> > the modes on the system.
> 
> It amazes me that uou'd need a locksmith to do that. I would have thought 
> any halfway decent hacker would know how to dismantle a lock, and would 
> even know how to re-pin most common locks. 

Dismantle, yes. Fragment, absolutely. Re-pin, no.

I greatly respect your acumen, bot all of us are as dexterous, and you keep
saying stuff like that as if it's a mortal sin not to be as adept or
confident with a soldering iron or other hardware but yet still consider
oneself a "decent hacker." I'm all thumbs with that stuff, and I'd rather
have someone who knows how to do it, do it, then wreck hardware because I
keep getting browbeaten about how I can't do it myself and should.

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