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"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012

Schuyler Towne · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Locksport historian Schuyler Towne's RVASec 2012 talk on why people lock their doors, tracing the history of locks and the assumptions about security behind them.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters call it a passionate and educational history of locks and physical security, and a good starting point for the subject.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “It's a great place to start.”

    Passionate, educational history of locks; great starting point.

    steakejjs, 2014-10 · Strong recommendation · in “A difficult lock to pick [video]”

  2. “Schuyler Towne has an amazing discussion of this”

    Amazing discussion on European views of American lock inventions.

    brownbat, 2016-11 · Strong recommendation · in “China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: locks, locksport, security history, physical security, lockpicking

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