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Anyone think this is a bad idea? What if your phone becomes comprised or stolen? Then they have access to your house? Its easier to forge a bunch of bits than a key.


Not really.. Lock picking, particularly home-locks, isn't very hard at all. Many people attend Lock Picking competitions, and it is a somewhat popular geek-sport.

I'd much have a 4096-bit public key, than a flimsy piece of metal.

See Also: http://www.capricorn.org/~akira/home/lockpick/


What if their servers are down when you come home at 1 am? Outages happen and this would be a pretty sensitive service to that.


Then add a security code to get access to the app.




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