A few months back, my 15-year-old pointed out something that stopped me cold. He’d been reading about home security for a school project and casually mentioned that a standard doorknob lock can be defeated in seconds by someone with even basic skills. I already knew that in the back of my mind, but hearing it
It started with a raccoon. Or at least that’s what my 10-year-old decided it was. For two weeks straight, something kept triggering the trash cans on the side of our house in the middle of the night — and nobody in this family was going outside in January to investigate. What we needed was a
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There are certain things around the house that fail so gradually you almost don’t notice until one day they just stop working entirely. Door knobs are like that. Ours started showing the signs about a year ago — a little wobble here, a sticky latch there, the kind of thing where you’d jiggle the handle
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