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A portable promise that whatever's inside is none of your business.
means A detachable lock with a U-shaped shackle that secures gates, lockers, and trunks by clamping shut.
from From medieval English: pad once meant a basket or pannier, so a padlock was literally the lock for your basket, before it locked everything else.
Easy bypassMany open to a tapped shim, not a key.
Weak linkThe shackle, not the body, usually fails first.
Love trendCouples padlock bridges, engineers fear the weight.