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1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 09:45:07 EST Hypolite Petovan

   ♲ @codepitbull@twitter.com: I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:
   - mechanical locks
   - mechanical windows
   - routers using OpenWRT
   - no smart home crap
   - no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
   - no internet connected thermostats

   1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 11:18:24 EST musicman

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      I'm not suggesting you should give up on locks, but apparently most mechanical door locks are super easy to crack anyway, so it probably doesn't matter.
      
      I think you probably left off the scariest: internet-connected ovens.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 11:29:37 EST lnxw48a1

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         @musicman Probably these days, locks are (to use an old joke) not about outrunning the bear, just your neighbors.
      2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2019 11:48:05 EST Hypolite Petovan

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         Yes, there is a common misconception that house locks are supposed to be hard to pick. It isn't the case for a vast majority of locks. However, a dumb lock, even easy to pick, will never send the time it was locked or unlocked to a third-party company, and this is the crux of the original post.