After being involved within the family business (lock smiths and security engineers) for 3 years whilst in college, you end up realising how insecure and inadequate 80% of the locks around you are.
Any person with a small degree of knowledge can do some serious amount of damage if they wanted to turn rouge. (Bump keys and Snappers)
Saying that it is a very fascinating skill to learn, the social response to stating that you are a trained locksmith in conversations is quite interesting.
You could sort of argue that the relatively low level of break ins indicates that most locks are adequate.
I think the bigger problem is the way people think about locks. In a house with lots of windows, they pretty much only serve to make an illicit entry more obvious, yet people build up an idea of one setting on the lock being safe and the other not.
Any person with a small degree of knowledge can do some serious amount of damage if they wanted to turn rouge. (Bump keys and Snappers) Saying that it is a very fascinating skill to learn, the social response to stating that you are a trained locksmith in conversations is quite interesting.