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I think this is kind of central to what a perfect lock would be. The only non-authorised access should be destructive.

• kube-system 5y ago
  While there are some locks that attempt to do stuff like this (Bowley locks?), the trade off for perfection is cost and recoverability. This might be useful for niche use-cases or academic reasons, but for a commercial product, the value proposition doesn't make as much sense. After a certain point of pick/bypass resistance, adding cost to a lock isn't actually protecting most users from any plausible attacker. And is more likely to prevent the authorized user from gaining access in a lockout scenario than it is to prevent a real-world attack. In most cases where someone faces a sophisticated attacker that could bypass a security lock, you'd be better served by layering other security techniques, instead of putting your eggs all in one basket with the physical lock.