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To break open a storage device for valuables.

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  • I think of scoring in soccer as a safecracking job.
  • I enjoyed reading about the lost art of safecracking in this illustrated lecture by Tim Hunkin.
  • Bank vaults are extremely difficult to open if you don't have the combination, but that doesn't justify safecracking.
  • He and Fi definitely had some heat between themlast night when they practiced safecracking he prefers the logicalapproach, she prefers using power tools.
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