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!

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      You are using a Master Lock 607. It can be opened using a Master Lock 607. (smacks locks together, causing them to open)

      — Trevor McNally, 2023

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      4 months ago

      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.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        4 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