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[PowderMonkey]

Better locks? It all depends on what they're attached to. Comes to a point where I've seen people install a $1,500 lockset on a hollow core wood door, bracketed by glass side panels, and the only thing holding it all in place is at most 1/2 inch of wood trim. In our area, the local burglars just go to the back of the house, pick up the bar-b-q grill, and toss it through the sliding glass doors off the patio or deck. Crude, messy, but effective.

[AlaskaErik]

Keypads have other security failures, as well. I regularly see keypads where four of the 10 buttons are more worn than the other six. They're worn from use, of course, and instead of 10,000 possible entry codes, I now have to try only 24.

And if two of the worn numbers are 1 and 9, then you're probably down to two combinations, since the 1 and 9 will more than likely be the first two digits of a birth year.

[21stCenturion]

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