Reverse engineering is permissible to obtain your own locks keys Codes
And are under no obligation to the company to keep this a secret.
you have signed no agreement to keep the company's codes a secret after all
So reason for a appeal . Which proved successful It was a reverse out come .
It's NOT a crime under California state law.
Many manufacturers still think in the same way today its ....a trade secret
A unfair trade practise And trade secret violation was the claim against the locksmith .
Really up to you personally if you want to share a key code you've got ..unless you've
Had to sign a company agreement.
So next time someone says. ..got the code you're in your rights to say ..sure have .
Restricted key profiles are really a manufacturers way around this ..no key blanks.
so there's no Real reason to obtain key codes is there logic ... So the locksmith does nothing
No he asks others if the blanks or codes are known to them ..it's common sense.
Locksmith Ledger, requesting that individual locksmiths transmit to him serial number-key code correlations in their possession in exchange for a copy of a complete compilation when finished. A number of locksmiths complied, and in late 1976 Fanberg and his father began to sell a two-volume publication of tubular lock codes, including those of Ace locks, entitled "A-Advanced Locksmith's Tubular Lock Codes." In 1976 and 1977 Fanberg advertised the manuals in the Locksmith Ledger for $49.95 and indicated that it would be supplemented as new correlations became known.
The two volumes 1 and 2 where brown in colour and look to be missing alot of the actual codes.
Ringo