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My friend has a keypad to get into his house. It's pretty freaken cool. I'm super jealous- not going to lie.

• smlacy 17y ago
  Arguably a keypad is worse than a key when it comes to being easy to open. Think about carrying a heavy load or box. You can (usually) still reach into your pocket, pull out a key, unlock the door and go inside. It's likely impossible to key in the keypad while holding the heavy load.
  • dbz 17y ago
    I do not understand why that would be so. With a key you need to use hand eye coordination to stick the key into the hole and turn with (sometimes) force (and sometimes need to apply pressure to the door as well). With a keypad you need to stick out your hand the same length as with a key- and push a few buttons. I do not believe you are correct.
• tetha 17y ago
  It is pretty cool until you realize how much easier it is to spy on a combination than stealing a key from a somewhat careful person. Note that I am not trying to imply that stealing a key is hard or anything. It is in fact quite easy. But at least for me, I need my keys every few hours, so even if you managed to steal my keys from me without me noticing the theft, I would still know that my keys are gone at most a few hours later and 1 or 2 hours later, I'd be convinced that they are stolen. Thus, your window of opportunity is just around a few hours. If you just spy on the combination, you know the combination and the window of opportunity to break into the house is as large as the frequency of combination-changes. which, considering password-changing-frequencies in real life, might be month to years. Thus, I don't really think the coolness offsets the security issues.