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The flip side of owning mechanical locks is someone like the Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube makes it seem easy to defeat a mechanical lock in under 5 minutes.
by someonehere 7y ago
The flip side of owning mechanical locks is someone like the Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube makes it seem easy to defeat a mechanical lock in under 5 minutes.
- tomjen3 7y agoYeah, I want him to design a key that he can't open. He has pretty much shown that he can open any key, even those that have alarms in them. Honestly I just want a few grams of explosives in my lock, wired so that they kill anybody attempting to pick the lock. Passive defenses are never enough.
- uryy4me 7y agoAsk and you shall receive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JlgKCUqzA0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JlgKCUqzA0 ("[527] Pickproof your Kwikset For Less Than $1")
- MrMember 7y agoI don't really trust any lock to keep out someone determined. At least a mechanical lock won't send who knows what data for who knows what purpose to the manufacturer.
- JohnFen 7y agoYou shouldn't. No security mechanism, physical or otherwise, will keep out someone with enough determination and resources. The goal of all security methods is not to make breaching them impossible (since that can't be achieved), it's to make breaching them so expensive that it isn't worth what would be gained by doing so.
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- teddyh 7y agoDoes your home have windows? Those can be defeated in way under 5 minutes as well. The point of mechanical locks is not absolute security, it’s to be more work to break than any alternative.
- bingo-bongo 7y ago..and attack surface - physical presence vs entire Internet is quite the difference.