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"Locks only keep out honest people"
Like, what the fuck is that even supposed to *mean*
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@joepie91 Hm? Isn't it obvious? Locks mostly cause honest people that stick to rules to be hung up by it. They use keys or see it as closed. Dishonest people/rule breakers are anyway going to try to bypass it. Essentially jumping the fence, using bolt cutters, picking it, knocking the master lock open with another master lock, looking at it until it opens itself (yes master locks can do that ;P) and so on.
So tldr: honest people refers to people using things as intended. 1/2
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@joepie91 and since they use it as intended the people that don't will also not use the lock as intended. So the lock will not work. 2/2
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@MTRNord a) that's not even close to how security measures work in real life, and b) if someone's "honest" by this definition, then you shouldn't even need a lock, a sign or whatever should be enough
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@joepie91 I agree with you in tech world fully. But looking at people like lock picking lawyer it clearly is that way for real world locks. Most of them are just a fancy chunk of metal which tries to scare away someone while it brings no security to someone who has a basic understanding of its flaws. (obviously there exist good locks as exceptions. But the avg store lock likely can't be considered secure)
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@MTRNord What does "having an understanding of locks" have to do with honesty?
Like, this is precisely the problem that I have with the original statement - there are a million ways to explain that statement, but none of them actually *make sense* when you think about it, and I cannot help but wonder what the actual intended messaging behind it is
