It's not like you can't find them on Amazon for cheap. There's also more than one master key it's a whole set. That said, when the lock picking lawyer bought a bunch of TSA locks, they all used master key #7 I think.

Eh. Wasn’t a big deal honestly.

It takes little effort to reproduce the key by disassembling the lock to get access to the plug.

The article also mentioned the whole platform he was using was cracked by police. They might have been able to get the metadata but not want to explain that to others still using that platform.

Plays fine in France.

I think most audio-only BBC programmes are available globally, even if they sometimes have ads inserted into them which aren't present if you're in the UK.

Here's a direct podcast URL you can add via your favorite podcast app:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/gangster/id1562843329

You don't run an adblocker?

Why not? Seems like a pretty clear shot of three of his fingers and a good partial print of his thumb. I assume the original was higher resolution than the version in the article.

The CCC made a point a couple years ago by publishing finger prints of high ranking German government officials extracted from photos

I did fingerprints from a digital photo in 2012 maybe earlier. Old mate was holding up drugs to be photographed. Bit of contrast, blew it up, sent it to fingerprint bureau and what would you know, we had those prints on file. Not the crime of the century and not absolute proof, but a damn good start for a case from a simple post on socials. More useful than most intel/hearsay that ends up in crimestoppers or similar channels.