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winny314 | on: Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
Just go wrench on your own car, like OP. You'll be amazed at all the funky ways you can gain access without a key. Not really secure, but difficult enough to prevent the casual shenanigans. This stuff predates the automotive IoT crisis too.
chao- | parent | next
Even more consequential and terrifying is to check how quickly and easily you can rake or bump the lock on your home door (only attempt if you know that you're doing, so as to avoid damaging it). Tends to be far easier than accessing car. It may also run counter to expectations: The nicest (and second most expensive) place I have lived at had the worst locks.

Makes you reflect on how, most of the time we rely on a baseline trust placed in most of the people around us.

kube-system | root | parent | next
> Even more consequential and terrifying is to check how quickly and easily you can rake or bump the lock on your home door

or sometimes, even just shim it open.

meindnoch | root | parent | next
>only attempt if you know that you're doing, so as to avoid damaging it

If you mess with your front door lock, make sure to do it with the door open, to prevent locking yourself inside when the pins get jammed into the keyway as you turn the lock 180° (don't ask me how I know this).

briansm | root | parent | next
Makes me think of Max Fisher's latest video where he makes the case that the 'domestication' that ancient human-to-human trust provided is what allowed us to genetically adapt to spend less energy on survival and more on brain-power.

Literally all of civilization is built on the back of that, and if it erodes then We're doomed.

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dabinat | root | parent | next
Are door locks actually intended to deter professional thieves though? I thought they were intended to add enough friction to deter crimes of opportunity.
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mnw21cam | root | parent | next
The lock on my front door merited a 15 minute video from the LockPickingLawyer. He could pick it, but it required some time and tools that the average lock picker wouldn't have available. 15 minutes has to be a record for him, but still it's only 15 minutes.
JumpCrisscross | root | parent
> nicest (and second most expensive) place I have lived at had the worst locks

Did it have an alarm system?

kotaKat | parent
I bought myself an Autel key programmer and boy was it funny to add in my own keys arbitrarily with no authentication to my own car.

No wonder the ratbag kids these days are running around with them - they're only like $400 on Aliexpress and Temu. The world of "all keys lost" shenanigans is a wild one. There's cat-and-mouse games between Autel and automakers and users trying to "block" certain regions and users from leveraging the all-keys-lost features to try to cut down on auto theft, but where there's a will, there's a way, and Autel's just running a shitty Android app on an Android 8 tablet...