No More Keys?
Editor’s Note: The following letter is in response to Technical Editor Jerry Levine’s recent blog, “No More Keys?” Read the blog at www.locksmithledger.com/12063536.
No more keys? Isn’t that a nice idea! Get into your house with a few clicks on a smart phone. It certainly is convenient. If only it was secure. When I have a key-operated lock and I have the key, I know that I lost it or maybe it was stolen. Then I change the key.
If I use an electronic entry and somebody hacks it, I no longer have the exclusivity that a physical key provides, and I don’t know that I have lost that exclusivity. The electronic entry systems are not hacker-proof.
The smart phone entry and other electronic access is a fad. When the public discovers that it’s not as secure as they are probably used to taking for granted, the physical key will return or remain as the preferred means of access, at least until government allows hacker-proof electronic security. We aren’t there yet and it’s not imminent.
If hacker-proof electronic communication, including security, was ever to be allowed, the Jihadis would find a way to have it too. If anything, they will have it before we do. Government has technology to violate surreptitiously everything that is electronic.
Since security is more important than convenience, the physical key will be the more desired way to secure a family and their possessions. High security locks have a bright future.
John T. Dunn III, CML, CPS
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