Interesting to read this juxtaposed with the article on increased smartphone theft in what also happen to be cities with high populations of cyclists.
In my personal infrastructure and gear, I like redundancies that create soft modes of failure. The more we make the smartphone into a security hub (or a payment hub), the greater the cost & inconvenience of theft, loss, or damage of the device. Spreading these functions between phone, wallet, and keychain is a healthy "division of labor" that spreads failure risk.
E.G., you can steal my wallet, and you can steal my phone, but I'm still safely biking home from the bar because you didn't steal my keys.
However, yes please to more convenient bike locks. Just not increasing/concentrating device dependency and risk.
I kind of want to build a boobietrap into this. You steal my bike, the bikelock detects it and triggers a timer, the person starts riding the bike and BOOM his ass explodes. Then I can program my stolen phone to point to my bike so the boobietrap can be sprung. Oh it will be awful and awesome.
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Interesting to read this juxtaposed with the article on increased smartphone theft in what also happen to be cities with high populations of cyclists.
In my personal infrastructure and gear, I like redundancies that create soft modes of failure. The more we make the smartphone into a security hub (or a payment hub), the greater the cost & inconvenience of theft, loss, or damage of the device. Spreading these functions between phone, wallet, and keychain is a healthy "division of labor" that spreads failure risk.
E.G., you can steal my wallet, and you can steal my phone, but I'm still safely biking home from the bar because you didn't steal my keys.
However, yes please to more convenient bike locks. Just not increasing/concentrating device dependency and risk.
I kind of want to build a boobietrap into this. You steal my bike, the bikelock detects it and triggers a timer, the person starts riding the bike and BOOM his ass explodes. Then I can program my stolen phone to point to my bike so the boobietrap can be sprung. Oh it will be awful and awesome.