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Hello Lemmy!

I have moved to a walkable area and no longer need to have my car keys on me all the time. My landlord has put in a crappy 4 digit combination style door lock, but said I could change it.

What is the best kind of keyless door lock that I can use instead? Ideally one with decent enough security to be as good or better than a key?

Thanks for your input!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Physical Abloy-style lock, not a "smart" lock.

Go see some cybersecurity type people, & see that they put physical security in place where they value real security.

ITIS ( Information Technology Information Systems ) has many vulnerability & attack-surfaces that "dumb" metal doesn't.

If you look, you will discover that there is a news-story about a company which did the hotel-locks for zillions of hotels in our world, that had a fundamental compromise in their design, & now everybody has to replace all those locks, but .. that isn't going to happen, is it?

IOW, criminality-industry was helped by all that "convenient" ITIS.

Please consider going with an Abloy Protec style physical-lock.

The Lockpicking Lawyer could get in, as could some of his equals, in mere minutes, but for the opportunistic-jackassery of normal robberies?

You can't EMP a non-digital-lock to kill it, can you?

There isn't a backdoor in the thing ( unless you multi-key it, but even then, with 21 iirc discs in the thing.. it's still locked )

etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not to be pedantic, commercial systems do go through lock replacements if they are budgeting properly.

A guest wouldn't notice unless they were watching maintenance teams replacing lock internal components.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not to be pedantic, commercial systems do go through lock replacements if they are budgeting properly.

BE pedantic. It's the rare company that has their BCP ready and a slush fund for bad decisions. The other 99.9% need to trim costs and, this year, withbeveryrbingnelse broken, swapping out the locks that really only a handful of people in Romania know abou--- NO CARRIER

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