Know your locks

With the expanding crime rate nowadays involving burglary and intruding, how much faith do you have in your household security?? Are you sure that you can sleep safe and sound without thinking that your house won't be breached by unknown assailants? Most would answer these questions with “I hope so”. Frankly speaking, I don't know myself if I'm totally safe with my house security because thieves and burglars are getting smarter as time goes by. The only thing we can do for starters is to know different kinds of security measures (for example, locks) and make a series of combinations across the house.

We mainly have 3 basic groups of locks. These are basic locks, resistant locks and high security locks. Knowing the difference in each type will give us clues where to put them for maximum efficiency.

Basic locks include locks for file cabinets, storage and luggage, and some generic padlocks. These locks tend to easily give in to lock picking and bypass as well as brute force. Novices and skilled attackers would have no problem dealing with this type of lock. This is only good for putting away and locking things like kitchen and garage tools out of the reach of children.

Resistant locks will keep novice lock-picker away because this type of lock has a more complex design. Though they are more resistant to lock picking, they tend to give in to brute force like swimming for example. The good thing is without proper tools like a bolt cutter for example, the intruder would have to make an ample amount of noise alerting the house owner and people near the place. Spool and mushroom, iron bolt locks are good example of this. This kind of lock is good for the garage and gate of you have one and add more if needed.

 High-security locks are in whole different level. This lock that only professionals can undo and will give the lesser skilled a big headache. Electronic locks are a good example of this type as it would not only require number codes, but also a key or a remote. Often time burglars will stay away from houses with locks like this because not only will take a lot of time to break in, but also good tools are needed for this (they would need to have an EMP for this or a decrypting device). This lock would cost a hefty sum, but in place will give better security all in all. Good examples of this would be cam locks, wireless electronic deadbolts. This kind of lock is very much applicable for front doors and coupled with cctv's would prove to be almost burglar proof unless you are forced by someone to open the door yourself.

Well, this is not in the list because mostly millionaires, billionaires and banks use this type of security lock. The unbreakable locks such time secured locks, retinal pattern locks, fingerprint locks and face recognition locks fall into this category. This type of lock cannot be breached unless the owner is forced to open the lock itself, which would require abduction, but that's another story.

These are all the type of locks to choose from and where to put them will be at the owner's discretion, but be warned locks do cost a sum but one should not compromise safety over a few pennies.