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With millions of students attending virtual school because of the coronavirus pandemic, there was no need for locks for lockers. With fewer people traveling because of the pandemic, there was a ...

He’s used plastic zip ties, bamboo sticks and even cat food cans to open the locks dangling from gym lockers and storage sheds across the US. Bill Johnson is now attracting a global following thanks ...

A century ago, Harry Soref had an idea for a new product: a tough but affordable lock. The Russian, Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant approached family and friends in Milwaukee and asked if they would ...

My buddy bought a combination padlock at a garage sale. It was made by Master Lock, and was the model with the stainless-steel case with a black dial and white numbers ranging from 0 to 39. The ...

There’s a vulnerability in Master Lock branded padlocks that allows anyone to learn the combination in eight or fewer tries, a process that requires less than two minutes and a minimal amount of skill ...

There are many sites around Milwaukee that were once home to large, buzzing industrial centers, employing hundreds, sometimes thousands of neighborhood folks, and we lament their shuttering and the ...

CONSIDERED SAFE DESPITE THE RECENT COLD. THE WORLD HEADQUARTERS OF MASTER LOCK IS CLOSING IN OAK CREEK, MARKING THE END OF THE COMPANY’S 100 PLUS YEAR HISTORY RIGHT HERE IN THE MILWAUKEE AREA. PARENT ...

TEN OUTSIDE THE PLANT NEAR 32ND AND CENTER ON MILWAUKEE’S NORTH SIDE. KENDALL, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WILL BE OUT OF A JOB. THAT’S RIGHT. JOYCE AND MASTER LOCK SAYS THOSE OPERATIONS WILL START RAMPING ...

This story first appeared in WIRED 13.02 published in February, 2005. For a lock picker, the world is a different place. Take, for example, a typical suburban house, with a bicycle in the front yard ...