On 28/02/2011 05:12 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> but he didn't bother to change the default combination. (??!)
>
> No, he cracked the safe. Safes don't have default combinations, unless
> they're digital, which they weren't 60 years ago.

There *was* a story about Feynman cracking combinations. But there was 
also a big safe that he couldn't crack, and when the guy came to drill 
it, he wanted to see how it was done. The guy told him he just used the 
default combination, because it hadn't been changed.

(I can't be bothered to look up the page numbers right now...)

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