THE VIDEO SHELF · history of locks and physical security
"Why do you lock your door?" - RVASec 2012
Locksport historian Schuyler Towne's RVASec 2012 talk on why people lock their doors, tracing the history of locks and the assumptions about security behind them.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters call it a passionate and educational history of locks and physical security, and a good starting point for the subject.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Schuyler Towne
- Topic
- history of locks and physical security
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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If you ever listen to people who really love locks talk about locks they all seem to say one thing. "All locks are pickable [or attackable]". This just means that this particular lock is abnormal and most lock-people don't have the experience to attack it, …
steakejjs on Hacker News · 2014-10
In A difficult lock to pick [video]And the US in the early 1800s. Schuyler Towne has an amazing discussion of this, how Europeans routinely were laughing at American inventions... until they suddenly very much weren't. It's in this talk. [VIDEO] I'd link directly to the relevant five minutes but it's hard …
brownbat on Hacker News · 2016-11
In China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthroughSchuyler Towne has (several?) great talks on this, going through the history of physical security and our assumptions about perfect security vs. social and cultural symbols. [VIDEO]
brownbat on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Guerrilla Public Service Redux (2017)
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