[sudo-discuss] someone keeps leaving the front door unlocked

[Jake]

what did you expect would happen when you handed out physical keys to 
people?  they copy them and hand out copies, and then those get copied 
too.

Now someone is repeatedly using their key to unlock the front door, and 
leaving the lock in the "unlocked" position.

I arrived at Omni at 10PM and the door was like that.  I immediately found 
someone with a key and used their key to re-lock the door, and I confirmed 
with that person that they understood to always re-lock the door after 
using their key.

When I left Omni at 2:15AM, it was unlocked again.  I had a front-door key 
stashed somewhere and I went and got it to re-lock the door, since there 
was nobody around answering my request for a front door key.

The moral of the story?  Someone with a key is leaving the front door 
unlocked, multiple times a day, including between the hours of 10PM and 
2AM.

I have worked very hard to make sure the magnetic stripe access card 
system is 100% reliable, including it having a battery backup and 
automatic notifications that go out to multiple people if anything goes 
wrong.  I did this work so we wouldn't make the same mistake of handing 
out physical keys that get copied and copied and handed out to whomever.

I propose we re-key the front door and only give keys to very specific 
people who promise not to make any copies.  It's easy enough to add cards 
to the card access system (that's a whole other discussion) that we should 
not have to be handing out keys anymore.

-jake