The only ones that really bother me are the firearm locks. A distressingly large percentage of firearm locks he talks about can be opened in seconds by an untrained teenager, which seems incredibly bad to me.
I got a $20 radio, and left my truck unlocked, with a sign.
The sign read, "Nap in the back of my truck. Use the seat to rest, but please don't break anything else."
Never happened again, and for a week someone was leaving a $10 in my glove box. Crazy?
I drive an old Toyota Truck, and most of you have nicer cars. Oh yea, I did put a kill switch in the truck.
> George and Kramer begin parking at a discount parking lot. After picking up his car George discovers a condom inside and suspects prostitutes are servicing their clients inside the cars.
To be professionally effective, a locksmith must know a lot of trivia about dozens of locks, and you can make that hundreds or thousands if they want to expand to gun safes and bike locks and cars and on and on... For that purpose, the plethora of cheap options is a decent deterrent. No normal burglar is likely to have specialized skills in opening dozens of locks.
But in a targeted attack, if you give any teenager a chance to look at the lock, then a few days to go on the Internet and see someone trivially jiggling the wafer core open, maybe buy an identical lock for $10 and practice their skills, none of the basic products are likely to be effective.
There are also laws in many states against possession of lockpicks during commission of a crime (esp. burglary). Criminals probably avoid carrying lockpicks because they if they are caught, the lockpicks will cause them to face more jail time. Carrying lockpicks while trespassing might also be used to show intent to commit burglary.
- must be approved by the insurance companies (they have a test procedure that IIRC is to have two experienced persons try to break it using anything up to and including hand held power tools)
- must weight 150kgs or
- be bolted to the floor from the inside