LogFAQs > #959947187

adjl posted...

I don't think there should ever be a significant chance of forgetting the code you use every single time you enter your house. The obvious exception would be dementia or a similar pathological loss of memory, but that's a special enough situation that planning something as banal as your door lock around it is a little unreasonable. If you're using it that frequently, you should be able to remember it indefinitely.

I mean, people occasionally go cold turkey on these things. You ever sit down at your computer and totally space on the password?

Either way, it doesn't seem like it actually makes your door SAFER so much as it just changes the locking mechanism. There'd likely be a period of 4-5 or so years before thieves adjust (if they don't just go through the window instead) that you'd have improved security, but then it's back to the way it was before. Except arguably less secure because anyone you ever told the code to for whatever reason could remember it and get in.