Adding additional barriers like this to opening hotel room doors is pretty important. 5 minutes on YouTube can give criminals more than enough ingenuity to get into a hotel room uninvited or noticed. Search engine keywords like "hotel room door lock hack" or "open hotel door lock from outside" reveal some real eye openers. This supplemental lock is just one of several we can choose from.mr1337 wrote:Also, I think you just convinced me to order one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Rishon-Enterprise ... B00186URTY
As mentioned in other places in this thread, criminals have varied techniques to get into rooms like
- social engineering (tricking people)
- leveraging relationships with employees
- inexpensive tools (ex. snare [long wire] or shim) with a little knowledge of the layout of the locks on the door to quickly open the door from the outside. These techniques easily defeat the lock and on just about room I've ever stayed in.
- inexpensive electronics to attack known vulnerabilities in electronic door locks.
- brute force
- any combination of the above
I'm a big believer in layered security.
@JayInSat: I'm glad you're all OK. I hope your time with friends and family turns out awesome for everyone. Prayers for the happy couple!