LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

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If you've ever seen the YouTube channel for The Lockpicking Lawyer (check it out...he has hundreds of videos) you can see that just about any lock can be opened with some simple tools and minimal skills. Some locks he opens quicker with some random item (he's opened a bunch of locks using strips cut from from an aluminum can) than you can open the lock with a key. As has been said many times, locks only keep the honest people out.

In my case, opening my garage door won't get you very far since there is another door you need to get through to get from the garage into the house. But the murder thing will keep me up nights now. Thanks, Janice.

For a while Amazon was pushing a system that would allow their delivery drivers to actually enter your home using an app so they can place your deliveries securely inside the front door. It was bundled with a security camera that recorded the activity any time the door was unlocked using the app - to discourage their delivery people from making a sandwich and using the bathroom while you aren't there. Oh, and lying in wait to kill you if that's their predilection.

I buy lots of stuff for my business from Amazon and we get deliveries from them almost every day. On Thursday night my phone rang just after 9pm. It was an Amazon delivery driver who was trying to drop off a package at my office (which is about 10 minutes from my home). The driver started out asking "You speak Spanish?" To which I replied: "no." She forged ahead speaking in Spanish for about 15 seconds. Of course I had no idea what she was saying...so I hung up. She called back a few minutes later and had a friend conferenced in to translate. She wanted me to "come outside" to meet her. My office is in a complex with several buildings and dozens of businesses. No one is there at night (as far as I know). I certainly couldn't "come outside" to meet her. Eventually she was able to locate our front door and I can remotely buzzed the door open (from my phone!). Package successfully delivered at around 9:30pm.

Have the people who buy these things considered that if their phone is ever stolen or hacked, the perp could get into their houses, steal everything of value, and lie in wait to murder them when they came home?