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How padlocks and combination locks are made; biometric locks; cracking open a bank vault; how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
How padlocks and combination locks are made; biometric locks; cracking open a bank vault; how the government plans to keep people away from a nuclear waste site for the next 10,000 years.
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