Its a very sad truth but at least where I am people still care.
All the same most common thieves aren't trained operatives
Now this system with say a backup RFID entry would be great, just trying to get away from keys.
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Do You Wants To Replace Your House Keys With Your iPhone 5
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Its a very sad truth but at least where I am people still care.
All the same most common thieves aren't trained operatives
Now this system with say a backup RFID entry would be great, just trying to get away from keys.
A hacker could probably try and "hack" this, but as a developer; their process of communication would make it very difficult and nearly impossible. Plus, what's the chance someone would own one of these in your neighborhood? lol.
Most doors are easily breached no matter what lock it has on it. You house will be no safer. The difference is that you will not have keys to loose, just a phone
Well if you only lose your keys, at least you can still call your friend asking for help or to sleep there.
Well if you only lose your keys, at least you can still call your friend asking for help or to sleep there.
Well for me it is the garage door opener with home wireless alarm system. I do have a key, if I can find it, in case there is no power.
It is going to be several years before we really see NFC mature into what everyone wants it to be.
Keys are so 19th century it's about time we upgrade to something more secure and 21st century in my opinion.
Its a very sad truth but at least where I am people still care.
All the same most common thieves aren't trained operatives
Now this system with say a backup RFID entry would be great, just trying to get away from keys.
I tend to agree. Locks merely keep honest people honest.
My problem is my wife can never find/remember her iPhone and when she does it's not charged. Our cars are keyless so all she needs on her way out of the house is to grab her purse which always has her debit card in it. Design a lock with a card reader for her debit or Nordstrom card and we're set.
I have no faith in these kinds of things with the amount of bugs in iOS6. Forget it, just forget it. Until they fix everything, forget it. Did I mention I'm forgetting about this? yep.
Holy crap.This is an excellent idea. Some of you guys sound like my grandparents...and I'm 49. So yeah a key doesn't weigh much and it takes 2 seconds to unlock a door. It's a very cool gadget for 149 bucks. When's the last time you wasted 149 bucks on something not nearly as cool as this?
I just pre ordered mine and i can't wait to receive it! Of course even with this on my door lock i will still carry my keys, there's just no way to get stuck out! I could even save you, what happens if you lose your keys and still have your phone? I think its a great idea and i support it!
If i take a sledgehammer to your current lock on your frontdoor, i could gain access to your home in less than 5 minutes. The locks on store shelves at home depot and lowes offer a false sense of security. Granted this new technology doesnt improve on the security, it simply automates it. It doesnt replace your current lock, only offer a method to unlock it with a cell phone.
How easy it is to hack is going to depend on how it (and the app) is designed. The iPhone 5 (Bluetooth 4.0) is probably going to be more secure, but only time will tell with that.
First off...ANYTHING can be hacked, just like any lock can be picked. It's just a matter of whether or not the time you need to put in is worth what you get. In order to hack this, you're going to need access to whatever data on the iPhone that is used to identify it (I'd say UDID but I don't believe apps actually have access to that anymore, so who knows). Considering how few of these there really are going to be, the chances of a hacker taking the time to figure out how to break in is quite low. Until they're used to secure government facilities (they never will be), nobody will take the time to break it.
The problem I see is with the lock itself. There has to be a key lock, you can't avoid that. What if the Internet is down, or the battery on the box is out? You'd be locked out of your house.
I'm reminded of a thumbprint scanner that was released a year or two ago. The thumbprint scanner itself was quite secure. However, the manual key override lock could be jimmied by simply pushing a bobby pin straight into it and turning the handle, so in the end, it was useless.
As secure as we make the technology guarding doors, manual locks are going to be necessary as fallbacks for the foreseeable future. And they're really the weak point in these setups.
First off...ANYTHING can be hacked, just like any lock can be picked. It's just a matter of whether or not the time you need to put in is worth what you get. In order to hack this, you're going to need access to whatever data on the iPhone that is used to identify it (I'd say UDID but I don't believe apps actually have access to that anymore, so who knows). Considering how few of these there really are going to be, the chances of a hacker taking the time to figure out how to break in is quite low. Until they're used to secure government facilities (they never will be), nobody will take the time to break it.
The problem I see is with the lock itself. There has to be a key lock, you can't avoid that. What if the Internet is down, or the battery on the box is out? You'd be locked out of your house.
I'm reminded of a thumbprint scanner that was released a year or two ago. The thumbprint scanner itself was quite secure. However, the manual key override lock could be jimmied by simply pushing a bobby pin straight into it and turning the handle, so in the end, it was useless.
As secure as we make the technology guarding doors, manual locks are going to be necessary as fallbacks for the foreseeable future. And they're really the weak point in these setups.