maury markowitz

I don't think Apple is their risk factor.

I think the fact that people are is interested in VR as they were in 3D television is the risk factor.

The number of people who want this crap in any near future is a rounding error.

retrogusto said:

To me the point here is that it’s a lot of money for a lock that provides a relatively low level of security. 

It provides exactly the same security as the lock you have on your door now. It uses the same cylinder. Did you replace your cylinders with a higher security one? No? Then you don't really care.

And you can totally swap out the cylinder in this lock, it is the entire design concept.

I don't know why people keep failing to mention this in the articles. The entire concept of the Lever is that it fits into a totally standard cut out and uses a totally standard cylinder. The original sales concept was to sell them without any hardware, and you would simply insert their bits into your existing lock. Now they add an actual physical lock, identical to the one you have now, and everyone's freaking out.

TechnoTacno said:

It’s alarming that the BHMA has rated a lock that can be picked in seconds with a AAA rating. 

How can a consumer find a secure lock if the rating suggests AAA and can still be picked in seconds?

Almost all locks can be picked in seconds. All you need is the tool. The high-security locks for homes generally add security by making the keyhole have a weird shape so the pick won't fit. So the Norman, for instance, uses a key that looks like an S in cross-section, so a normal flat pick won't fit into the curved slot. But that's it, after that it's the same mechanism. So all you have to do is use a different pick, which is why you have a lockpick SET, not a lockpick.

Once again, with feeling:

The idea of the Level is that you replace the cylinder with the one you already have in your door. That means you can keep using your keys, which you probably have all over the place. This is the entire design concept and it is why it is laid out like it is. There are hundreds of YouTube videos showing you how to do it.

So the Level is exactly as pickable as your current cylinder because it uses your current cylinder. It's like the same cylinder though, as it's a completely standard 5-pin model that you can even re-key to use your existing keys.

There are LOTS of reasons not to buy this lock, but pickability is not one of them because almost every lock out there is easily pickable. Better reasons include:

1) If you touch it with any body part, even just brushing it, it will lock/unlock. It's so annoying almost everyone turns it off

2) the auto-lock will re-lock the door even if its open, which means you you go to close it, BANG

3) the auto-lock will re-lock even if you deliberately unlocked it. there's no way to leave your door unlocked if you're expecting someone. If you don't have a storm door you can keep closed... well, tough.

As someone immediately pointed out in a reply to the original Twitter post, the installer in the image in the post is precisely the size of iOS 13.7. It appears someone simply renamed the installer either as a gag on us or the original poster.