cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37646129
Source: Reddit post— Private front-end.
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In theory, your phone becomes a perfect multi-tool for every task. Unlock your door, start your car, swipe a credit card, shop for groceries, talk to your mom, book a vacation, apply for a job, show tickets for a concert, yadda yadda yadda.
In practice, it's a bunch of patch-jobs cobbled together on a grid that's over-extended and under-maintained. So, rather than a single universal digital gatekey, you get a digital janitor's keyring with 100 different apps competing for battery life and bandwidth on a platform that goes obsolete every 18 months.
Either that or you rely on Google for literally everything. It can be convenient but I'm growing tired of it, I don't want my data being potentially leaked in 10000 different ways just so I can open my door easier 4% of time time.
Technically you would store that shit in your Wallet app and be good to go. I wouldn’t want it for my house or car keys though.
I'm not sure why. There's nothing magical about a signal from a key when it could just as easily come from a phone.
Physical house keys don’t have signals. Cars are a bit different but you can keep your key in a Faraday cage.
Okay, but why would you want to do that?
Similarly, lots of apartment keys and office keys are just FOBs now.
Why would I want to depend on my phone instead of a key though? Phone batteries run out all the time
I regularly get through the day without running out of power. And an extra thing in my pocket is annoying, especially when I need to dig it out in order to use it. Same reason I prefer to open my garage with a clicker than to unlock a big deadbolt by hand.
If running out of power is a real fear, you can always do the "hide a spare key under a fake rock near the door" trick.
Try starting your day at 25% with a hectic schedule.
Also those smart locks are super hackable. Lock picking at least requires skill.
I would simply charge my phone overnight.
Most off the shelf door locks are pretty easy to evade if you know what you're doing. But most burglars are people hard up enough to take a very high risk, low reward line of work and not terribly sophisticated.
The two home invasions I've heard of personally both involved just walking up behind someone as they were opening their door and pulling a knife on them.
Good for you if you can charge it overnight. I have a charger next to my bed just for this and I still never remember to.
Lol you cannot apply for a job with a simple tap of your phone. You can send them your CV but they're not interested, they always want you to fill out some bespoke form which asks you all the same questions that you just answered on the CV. Then the whole thing gets fed into an AI black box and then who knows what happens.