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A "smart" lock without a fallback to a physical key. Uses a 4 digit code and locks you out after 5 tries. This is truly terrible even beyond the usual privacy and security concerns a smart lock introduces. And those concerns are far from trivial, this sounds like a privacy nightmare and also gives far too many people potentially access that shouldn't have.

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It also locks you out after that neighbor you don’t like intentionally types a wrong code five times, because you where playing loud Music yesterday until 21:00, which isn’t against the rules but he/she doesn’t like it.

Extremely smart.

To be fair, a tube of superglue has a similar effect on a dumb lock.

Pushing buttons doesn't scream vandalism like inserting glue into a lock does.

As a less vandalism like attack, consider when your drunk neighbours attempts to enter your apartment instead of their own. The security "feature" of a lock out is just an easily triggerable denial of service attack.

I like doing it to corporate security folks after they try to dictate it in authentication systems. They usually seem to understand after it's done to them.

Oh, I like that approach. I will have to remember this "argument" against lock out.

So you’re saying to fight back people should just keep hitting random numbers locking everyone out in a building? Not a bad play.

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