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human
ELI5: If traditional locks are easily picked, why do we still use them?

What are the great advantages of tradicional locks over other designs? Security doesn't seem that great...
gpt
Physical locks are not meant to make things impossible to get to. They just make it hard to get to. No amount of physical locks will ever make something 100% secure because even if they are unpickable, and there are some unpickable locks, physical things can be broken.

The point of physical locks are that it takes the robber time and energy to get around them. If it takes more time and energy to do it most robbers will just go to the next location and hope there is less security.

because of this most people just need convenient locks. Ones that do not take up a lot of space or time to open.

It is only when we see extremely valuable things that the higher tech locks that take a lot of space/time/energy to work with.