Safe Harbour?

I decide to reach out to the physical world as we continue to contemplate options in the virtual. And it's a story that dates back to 1799, and this company supplying trade across the Atlantic less than twenty-five years after the founding of the USA. In fact they claim to have invented the modern-day safe as we know it, Jim, as soon as 1850.

Nonetheless I'm here to see if ~ as we look to replace passwords and passcodes ~ we can do much the same with physical locks?

These are everywhere around us, but frequently overlooked as say the water is by fish.

Though with much of our world (and especially its better-looking parts) becoming one great Airbnb rental, a move to replace locks requiring keys with those using passcodes continues apace. In fact they've gone beyond it too, at a price, by providing hotel-room safes with locks that can be opened by a credit card. So don't lose that wallet, or much else will be following.

I've stayed in many hotels around the world and preferred the mattress as the easiest option, but if we can educate people to pin-point pics on a phone then it promises a world of key-less and key-pad-less locks.

And wouldn't that be nice?

Accordingly I've installed a SALES pick on the website and tailored it as an exclusive pitch to a company that appears to be going places in the virtual-physical interface.

Only they will be at all able to process the pitch, however, as it's protected by block-lock and pics of their staff from start to six-digit finish.

If that doesn't impress them, then nothing will... watch this cyber-space.

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