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Re: Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

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Pushing buttons doesn't scream vandalism like inserting glue into a lock does. As a less vandalism like attack, consider when your drunk neighbours attempts to enter your apartment instead of their own. The security "feature" of a lock out is just an easily triggerable denial of service attack.

I like doing it to corporate security folks after they try to dictate it in authentication systems. They usually seem to understand after it's done to them.

Oh, I like that approach. I will have to remember this "argument" against lock out.

Re: Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

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Clearly it wouldn't be reasonable to impose a lower standard of safety and security than a non-smart lock. I don't think landlords would attempt to argue that principle. The argument from them will be that smart locks do not regress security and safety. Given the widespread and well known security problems with IoT devices across the industry, I think it'd be reasonable to demand assurances on this. For example, an a…

What breach? Every apartment lease agreement I’ve ever had says the leasing company can change the lease anytime they want. My recourse is to move out immediately.

Re: Landlords forcing smart locks on tenants

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A "smart" lock without a fallback to a physical key. Uses a 4 digit code and locks you out after 5 tries. This is truly terrible even beyond the usual privacy and security concerns a smart lock introduces. And those concerns are far from trivial, this sounds like a privacy nightmare and also gives far too many people potentially access that shouldn't have.

It also locks you out after that neighbor you don’t like intentionally types a wrong code five times, because you where playing loud Music yesterday until 21:00, which isn’t against the rules but he/she doesn’t like it. Extremely smart.

So you’re saying to fight back people should just keep hitting random numbers locking everyone out in a building? Not a bad play.
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