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Tenants at a property in New York City just struck a deal in what is both a wildly reasonable ask but also a crucial precedent at a time of increasing surveillance—their landlord has to give them physical keys to their building.
Five tenants in Hell’s Kitchen sued their landlord in March after the owners installed a Latch smart lock on the building last year. It is unlocked with a smartphone, and reportedly granted tenants access to the lobby, elevator, and mail room. But the group that sued their landlords saw this keyless entry as harassment, an invasion of privacy, and simply inconvenient.
“We are relieved that something as simple as entering our home is not controlled by an internet surveillance system and that because we will now have a mechanical key they will not be tracking our friends and our family,” 67-year-old tenant Charlotte Pfahl, who has lived in the building for 45 years, told the New York Post.
Source: After Smart Lock Allegedly Traps Senior in Apartment, Tenants Sue for Physical Keys and Win
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 09 2019, @06:58AM (2 children)
Are there any good online resources you know to illustrate the subject?
(Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Thursday May 09 2019, @07:28AM
Google lock sport and or locksport. There isn't much cruft on this subject. Picks are cheap, your real expense will be a collection of locks to play with. Buy some CHEAP locks to start. They will be easier and you don't want to start with the hardest lock. You can get there with practice but you don't want to get discouraged and quit before you've started.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 09 2019, @01:47PM
Youtube has a number of videos on the subject. I've watched several over the years. If you browse around, you'll learn that there is a brand of padlock, and a brand of doorlocks from Europe which are very nearly unpickable. Common Master padlocks and their like? I pick those routinely. Door locks in the US have some really crappy brands, and some less crappy brands, but most can be opened pretty easily. Many that are hard to "pick" are vulnerable to opening with a small, flimsy screw driver. Where there's a will, there's a way. It's funny to see a high dollar lock used to lock a door with a flimsy door frame, where you can insert a sturdy screwdriver, and pry the doorframe sideways, enough to allow the door to open.