By putting Social Security into a locked box and declaring it sacrosanct, the budget deal may inadvertently make reform harder.

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My parents, brothers and other relatives are stumbling around, trying to stuff my words, anecdotes and remembrances of the past back into the locked Chinese box.

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At home--even in the suburbs--have a locked mail box.

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Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola locked up the box market by controlling--in the name of antipiracy--the encoding software that scrambles a video signal at the cable company's hub and descrambles it at the home.

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While the mainframe was safely locked away in a glass box or an off-site data center, iPads and mobile phones often end up on the sofa or floor at home, with kids using them.

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"Three years later it was sold to a European banker, and kept in France, locked away in a safe deposit box, where fortunately it remained undiscovered during World War II, " the auction house said.

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Since the folder to store data is locked and unlocked just like a safety box, many kinds of content file formats such as private photos, videos, memo pads, or other documents can be protected.

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