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I had a coworker have his bike stolen on 5th Ave in New York City while thoroughly chained and U-locked to scaffolding at 9am with hundreds of pedestrian passersby in the time it took him to go up the passenger elevator and down the freight elevator.

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Portable angle grinders and certain kinds of jacks. A nail clipper with a bic lighter can get through a cable in less than a minute.

Nowadays if you’re willing to spend $300 dollars on a Hiplok D3000 or Litelok x3, you can have a lock that takes 10 minutes to cut with an angle grinder.

So that’s progress at least.

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