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When people ask me about Internet connected door locks, I tell them about the coworking space I used to be a member of. More than once I got stuck standing out
by bunderbunder 1y ago
When people ask me about Internet connected door locks, I tell them about the coworking space I used to be a member of.
More than once I got stuck standing outside in the rain waiting for the smart door lock to come back online after a squirrel jiggled the cable drop by running down it or some k8s pod in the cloud service got knocked over by a chaos gremlin or someone was using a vacuum cleaner that generated too much noise in the wifi spectrum or who even knows what.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoAlso, there's a fundamental security issue with allowing doors to be unlocked remotely. Door locks aren't particularly secure (it doesn't take too much expertise to learn how to lockpick them), but they require someone's physical presence in order to unlock/bypass as that provides a disincentive for criminals to be seen lurking around a door with various tools in hand. Once you remove the requirement for a physical presence, it's more or less risk-free to attempt to hack the door and you can wait until you are successful to then approach the door.