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Lockboxes: An Overview

July 9th, 2008

Property security is among man’s major concerns ever since. Either he hides or watches over his valuables; or secures them altogether with safety devices-all for one purpose: securing one’s property. The earliest incarnations of the lockboxes are the knots to either detect, like the Thief knot, or hamper, like the Gordian knot. Even way back 4,000 years ago, wooden locks and keys were already in use in Egypt then. The first known lock with a key is a pin lock. To lock the door, they just pulled on the rope to extract the key cylinder and simultaneously pulling the bolt closed. This type of lock is still in use in certain parts of the world. A danger of this lock is a vandal can push the rope into the hole – an ancient equivalent of putting glue into a lock.

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