Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?

betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cerevant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have to disagree - this is more like the gate that blocks the sidewalk that you can get around by walking on the grass. The mechanical locks that these come with are significantly weaker, more common and better understood by thieves, that they wouldn’t bother even trying to figure out how to hack the smart lock.

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  • moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That doesn’t invalidate their point. The electronic lock is just an additional potential point of failure with no added security. In addition to people who can pick or break the key lock, now there is an additional type of person who can break in: the kind that knows how to bypass electronic locks.

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same concept but why pick a lock when you can break a window or sliding glass door?

    In other words… The attack surface is indeed larger for smart lock than dumb lock – more ways to attack – but in practice it matters little because existing home attack surface is easily breached.

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      PS the counter argument is smart locks come with added security controls: monitoring, logging, and the ability to auto lock in case someone forgets to lock it.

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• cloudless@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What would you recommend?

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, the lock is one of the last things to worry about. If you have an outward opening door get security pins for your hinges.

    Check out one of m.youtube.com/@DeviantOllam talk on door security and worry less about the lock and more about the door fixture. His hour long conference talks to through how a door is insecure how it can be exploited and what you can do to prevent it from happening.

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    • sagrotan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Absolutely right! By far the majority of burglaries are with forced / destructive entry. Virtually all.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Typically, external residential doors open inwards so that they can’t be blocked by someone on the outside. Of course this doesn’t apply if we’re talking about an internal or non-residential door.

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      • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It is region specific as in my place 2 out of 3 of my external doors open outwards. my place before that was about 50:50 for outwards or inwards opening doors.

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  • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Based on the context, I think they would suggest going with the old school lock with a deadbolt. The more complex a device is, the more likely it is to have multiple vectors of attack.

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