FEISTY wrote:Am I missing something here? Surely people can't just walk into hotel rooms nowadays with card reader locks? I like the idea of door wedges, but would worry that it would be harder for staff to get people out if there was a fire. A good idea to look into all forms of security, but wondering why I suddenly feel the need to buy a handcuffs key
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You'll hear the fire alarm as most places have regulations requiring hotels to have sounders in your room. But them banging on the door will work just fine. I doubt hotel staff will have time to physically enter rooms in the event of a fire because of the number of guests/rooms per staff working.
Electronic locks can be fooled with bits of kit if you're clever enough to put them together, but they also rely on specific manufacturers and models to do so. And even then they don't work all the time. It's far easier as Andy says to just nab a maid's master card, but that requires being lucky enough for someone to leave one laying around, or for you to somehow get it from the maid.
The safe is a pain as it's in a hotel, and hotel guests are usually thick and forget their codes. So if it doesn't have a tubular lock hidden behind the logo as a bypass, it will have a master code. Decent hotels will have a code which changes depending on the room you're in (using the room numbers to shift the code along or similar), but cheap hotels like the ones shown on youtube leave it as the default "000000" because they can't be bothered.
Everyone needs a handcuff key though
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