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I worked as an apprentice locksmith from the middle of high school until I graduated college - we always told people, standard locks should be looked at only as

by JCE504 13y ago

I worked as an apprentice locksmith from the middle of high school until I graduated college - we always told people, standard locks should be looked at only as a way to inconvenience a person from breaking in. If someone really wants to break into your house, they are going to; it's only a matter of how long it takes them to get in, and through what method. Granted, it was at this point they would ask about security systems, which we also installed - but the general principal still stands.

lawl 13y ago
>If someone really wants to break into your house, they are going to That's the basic principle of security. Be it crypto, physical security or anything else. You're always just buying time. So the question is how much time do you want to buy. If you can kick down the door in 2 seconds you just have a very low security margin. Compare this with crypto where you measure security margins in years. I'm just a bit baffled that it's that low for apartments in the US. You probably couldn't kick down most doors here. Well at least I couldn't.