![]() As such, you can’t simply file a key down and expect it to work in any lock. The precision tools used in the manufacturing process of a modern key and lock are a far cry from the cumbersome and bulky iron locks of yesteryear. There is such a wide variety of locks on the market today (with many of them being electronic) and all have a far more sophisticated design than the locks from a century or so ago.Īs production techniques have improved so have keys and locks. The short answer is no, so you shouldn’t worry too much about your car being stolen with one. In books and magazines, you’ll often see pictures of them with a skull on one or both ends, although this is merely for effect and has nothing to do with the origin of their name. ![]() The skeleton key gets its name from the simple fact that it has been reduced to its basic part, much like a human body stripped of all its complexities becomes a skeleton. Photo by Blenheimears – Own work, CC0, Link How did the skeleton key get its name? This, of course, makes warded locks very insecure when such a simple security vulnerability is so easy to exploit and thankfully nowadays, you don’t see many of them around (aside from old garden sheds and the like). In other words, just by spending a bit of time filing a key down, you could use it to open any lock in the set of locks for which it was made. In times gone by when locks were far simpler in design, the key on the right in the photo above could actually open many different warded locks of the same design. In the US, they’re often called passkeys (which sounds far less exotic) but the use and design is the same. Unfortunately, the bland reality is that skeleton keys are fairly simple to make and not particularly effective in most modern-day scenarios.Īs you can see from the picture above, a typical, run-of-the-mill skeleton key is simply a normal key that’s had the serrated edges filed down to remove them. We sometimes see them in movies where an arch-villain or international spy will use one to gain entry to a top-secret facility or someone’s apartment to plant a bugging device. “The Last of Us” creatives break down key aspects of the series in the coverage below.There’s often a lot of mystery, glamour and intrigue surrounding the use of skeleton keys. But it has also played to television’s strengths, adjusting details both big and small to tell a better story. ![]() The series follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a survivor still mourning his greatest loss from the day everything changed, and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a teenager born into this dangerous world who may be the key to saving it.Ĭreated by “Chernobyl’s” Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, the creative director of the original game, “The Last of Us” has been hailed as “a gripping tale of survival because it makes ample room for savagery and love, desperation and selflessness.” At times, the series is so faithful to the original game that it re-creates scenes nearly shot-for-shot. The post-apocalyptic survival drama is set in a world that has been ravaged by an outbreak of a mutant cordyceps fungus that transforms human hosts into mindless and terrifying monsters. An adaptation of an acclaimed video game, HBO’s “The Last of Us” has managed to do what once seemed impossible: expand a beloved story into a series that appeases longtime fans and appeals to new viewers.
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