As I blogged earlier, someone had tampered with my front door.  To recap, while it is extremely unlikely, I guess it's not impossible for me to forget about my deadbolt.  However, the fact that my lock opening had been taped over is most definitely not from me!  Also, it doesn't help that my house have been burglarized once in the past.  As someone who has been threatened to be killed multiple times before, and is generally hypervigilant to begin with, I can not stress enough what a big deal this is for me.  At the very least, it's just embarrassing to me on a professional level.

Now for some generally inconvenient truth about physical security in an average house: It's never going to be secure enough to stop a determined burglar.  Even if it's somehow possible, you might not actually want that, as in the event of a medical emergency or fire, you don't want your domicile to be so barricaded that EMTs or fire fighters can't break though and get to you in time.  So, it's an interesting balancing act.

Also, I don't want to end up being that weird guy in the movies where, every time I open or close a door, you hear like at least 4 or 5 different locking mechanisms being activated.  The added security still need to be convenient enough to work with in daily life.  With all that said, let's get to what I added as new:

I don't know if you guys have seen this mechanism before, but the basic idea is, even if your door lock has been picked or tampered with, the door itself still can not be opened, as these barricade devices will have to be disengaged from the inside.

Now, the reason why I don't mind showing this in public is because, well, they've been proven to be defeated before, and with a slab of plastic cut out of a milk jug no less haha.  Also, there are a couple more details to this, that I am choosing not to show for security reasons.  So, this is not all there is to it.

Another reason I decided to go with these is because they don't actually look that bad aesthetically, and in terms of using them day-in and day-out, it's pretty frictionless to me.  Oh, and it's pretty affordable for what it is!

Regardless, it's been nearly... 3 weeks since the day of the incident?  I have to say I am a bit disappointed that this prospective burglar had not shown up.  I had really hoped to bag whoever this is.  The MO on this one seems somewhat idiotic, and I have questions on why he chose to do exactly what he did hahaha.  Oh well.