[twistedpair]

Read up on Medeco. An expert lock smith might be able to pick it in his career, once. That's an $80 lock. Now look at Kwikset from HomeDepot for $11. An amateur can pick that lock in 2 seconds flat.

In short, the Medeco lock basically has every deterrent you can put into a lock that the industry knows about. Medeco to Kwikset is like a major payment processor's portal to a Wordpress site with a shopping cart plugin for seeing specialty cat themed oven mitts. You get what you pay for if you high someone that knows what they're doing.

[thaumasiotes]

You sound like a true believer in DRM. Just like with DRM, a lock doesn't provide all that much security because all of the information necessary to break it is encoded in the lock.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medeco :

> As of 2008, several new methods of cracking Medeco locks has been developed by Mark Tobais and Tobias Bluzmanis and were presented at the DEF CON 2008 and HOPE 2008. A simultaneous public release of a book detailing many of the exploits, called "Open in Thirty Seconds" detailed many of the attacks discovered.

> They further detailed the ability to bump current generation Medeco M3 locks.

> Many Medeco dealers continue to make claims about the Bump and Pick proof nature of their locks, however Medeco has retracted virtually all of its own press indicating such claims.

Furthermore, this particular piece of rhetoric:

> An expert lock smith might be able to pick it in his career, once.

makes no sense. Picking a style of lock once makes the next time easier, not harder.

[twistedpair]

>Furthermore, this particular piece of rhetoric: >> An expert lock smith might be able to pick it in his career, once.

Easy getting down off your high horse. It might blow your socks off, but I've read that Wikipedia article before. I've actually gone through the whole DEFCON presentation and paper too, where you'll see which locks have the bump mod since 2008. ;) Yet, given that I'm not concerned about the CIA or NSA sneaking in to spike my cookie jar with LSD, I'll stick with my Medeco lock, including the bump mod, to make it a little more difficult to waltz into my warehouse. If you want in, you'll have to take the door or wall down, which is the point of a quality lock.