The red circle was there when I found it, I swear!
In case anyone can't find the security parts I found it:
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025
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I hope they weren't counting on security through obscurity, because if so you've just ruined them
here, I added more in case you guys didn't notice the lock 
I don't understand...
Edit: woosh my friends 😎
I can provide some context. In the 90s, over 40 years ago, they enjoyed displaying their floppy discs to gain their guests’ envy but they were still wary of theft, so they placed them inside of heavy transparent enclosures. This practice descended from the premise of china cabinets. I’ve circled the floppy discs in blue for clarity.
Oh wait lmfao! Didnt notice you can just pull the hinges out from the base and lift it off XD
The security of 90s technology was largely based on the honor system.
Locks keep honest people honest.
That's all.
And children from messing with them
Considering most petty crime is a crime of opportunity then yeah. Locks are a good thing
They are important, but they are limited in the scope of what they can do. Just watch LockPickingLawyer or BosnianBill or Deviant Ollam's I'll Let Myself In: Tactics of Physical Pen Testers, This Key is Your Key, This Key is My Key and The Search for the Perfect Door.
On the other hand, I think most petty criminals probably aren't lockpickers, especially on their level. Probably more important to protect against someone drilling out the core or cutting the shackle. Of course, all this is a balance of how beefy and expensive the lock is versus how valuable and at risk what you're securing is.
Most locksmiths aren't at their level...
I miss BosnianBill, it always felt like my grandpa was sharing his hobby with me.
LPL and BB got me into picking locks, and so far it's saved a couple of massive personal headaches and one extremely expensive piece of industrial equipment (for which I recieved absolutely no recognition in saving the company about $450,000-550,000 in broken equipment)
It's also a fun quick thing to teach people and I have a spare set with me and an acrylic demonstration lock to show newbies.
I had fun at a park in south-western ohio once when I started picking all the padlocks couples were leaving on a bridge. I left about a dozen of them sitting on top of the railing.
Fun times, cheap hobby.
What ever happened to BosnianBill? I agree with your description of him seeming like a grandpa sharing.
I never got into lock picking, just did some small desk locks and such years ago, but I just loved watching him and enjoying his hobby.
I hate this saying because it's claiming lazy thieves are honest people. If you would steal a bike outside a grocery store just because it's not locked you're not an honest person.
Locks counters the finders keepers rule.
Hey look! I found a lock in the open.
I'll now be keeping it for myself and whatever is attached to it.
During the pandemic I learned how to pick locks for fun and that was the exact thought that I had
What kind of sociopath stored their 3.5" floppies with the metal shutter up?
Someone who wants to make super sure that no dust gets into the discs, as even a single mote of dust in the drive will set off a chain reaction that destroys every universe simultaneously.
At least, according to my mother. She always insisted that floppy discs be stored like this since dust could settle in the tab if left the other way.
Isn’t the lid and key supposed to keep the dust out?
No. The key is strictly for security. It does nothing for dust.
The key keeps dust from getting into the lock.
They probably didn't have plastic/rubber inserts.
You'd think, but she was paranoid that the tiniest mote of dust would cause the computer to break.
The idea of data security just wasn’t a thing until very recently.
Credit cards sales were recorded using ink imprints of the cards’ raised numbers, and the “duplicate paper” was then discarded with little thought into the trash. Phone books listed names and addresses of anyone who didn’t pay extra to have them omitted (very few people bothered). Checks (the things you wrote and handed out to ANYONE from the phone company to the paperboy) usually included social security numbers, and most universities also used Social Security Numbers as student ID numbers and required them to be printed on just about everything until well into the 90s. Simpler times.
The uni I am going to right now, focused on technology, decided to use birth numbers (similar to SSN I guess) as a password for housing accounts of new students.
Birth number isn't even treated like something that should be super private. I think it still is considered private information like phone number and email address, but its only purpose is supposed to be identification. Some 4 digits that are chosen somehow + date of birth.
I was also surprised to just get sent the password for another system by email in plaintext.
Better than McDonald's security I guess: https://bobdahacker.com/blog/mcdonalds-security-vulnerabilities
I’m not sure I ever saw a check with a social security number on it, but the rest of this is absolutely true
Was a common practice for me until my mid-20's. If it wasn't pre-printed on then, cashiers would ask what it was and write it in the check.
I just burned some old ones I found in an old file cabinet the other day. I don’t think I ever had them myself, but I l remember a teller asking whether I wanted to include it.
Pretty much everyone I knew who had an Amiga had that box, and from the age of about 6 I was able to jimmy it open easily. Not that I had nefarious intent, just wanted to play Monkey Island.
Can confirm. Had Amiga, and had that box.
had that box, didn't have an amiga.
Got one 2 months ago though!
You could get in without the keys if you dropped it from chest height but there would be evidence of accessing the data.
Or if you figured out how to make or buy a wave rake.
That plastic lid opens from prying gently at the rear pressure hinges pretty easily, if I recall correctly.
My dad kept grainy porn gifs (technically, an animated format OLDER than .gif) on 5 inch floppies in one of these. I know it was porn because the lock sucked shit 😌
Good god it took me a while to realize you said grainy, not granny.
I bet that whole case is just Microsoft Office 97. I remember that was like 50 floppy disks.
When I was 13, I looked at web pages about lock picking and then successfully picked the lock on our floppy disk case. Felt like a Mission Impossible operative for two whole days after that.
added layer of security i'd say
Pretty similar to a lot of mailboxes
Or filing cabinets. Which is where sensitive information was often stored in the days of floppy disks.
And, this case could be set inside a locked filing cabinet, for twice the security!