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Not knowing much about keys, but knowing a bit about machining materials, I dare say that skilled people with access to a hardware store to buy a hacksaw, a few files and some metal could also duplicate a key without much trouble.

For all their high-tech trappings, laser cutters are still doing what humans do by hand all the time; they just do it faster.



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