Realistic Objectives

Greg Ellifritz makes a good point here about why to keep a lock on the gate to your backyard privacy fence.

You're not trying to duplicate the security level of Fort Knox, here. Like keeping the doors on your house locked and your windows secured, you're just trying to make breaking into your place a hassle. Most casual daytime burglars don't want to deal with that level of work. If they did, they'd have jobs.

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