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I don't really "get" locks. If you want something to be closed forever, seal it shut. If it should be opened and closed, leave a hinge. If it should only be open and closed by a select few, leave it in a trusted environment

Don't you live in a good neighborhood?

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I've lived in a fair few places, but I've never lived in a place where an unlocked bicycle wouldn't be stolen. I'll keep using locks, thank you very much.

I think they were probably making a joke about software security.

I think the post was just really bad, myself.

A trusted environment, even in a "good neighborhood", requires a lock at least to the front door of your house, or gate, or w/e.

But where will you park your car when you go to work? You have to lock it.

> A trusted environment, even in a "good neighborhood", requires a lock at least to the front door of your house, or gate, or w/e.

I don't think that's a trusted environment or "good neighborhood". But then I basically use "can leave front door unlocked with zero worries" as the threshold for "trusted environment".

But those environments and neighborhoods definitively exists today across the world, although they're probably becoming less and less common.

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