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		maxerickson on Aug 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please turn on two-factor authentication On the other hand, typical house locks are (apparently) only locks by way of cultural convention. (I say apparently because the ease of using things like bump keys is pretty widely publicized but I have never actually tried it myself)

dredmorbius on Aug 7, 2012 [–]

Conventional locks are far less secure than most people would realize.

That said, your house isn't directly connected to 2.26 billion people who can make hundreds (or thousands or billions) of bump-key attempts per second.

sigkill on Aug 8, 2012 | [–]

In that respect it's like a bcrypted safe with a 4 character password and limited bandwidth.

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