New home door locks can be controlled online

September 3rd, 2008 By CATHERINE TSAI , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- What if locking the front door of your home while you're away were as easy as hopping on the Internet?

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• KeitoTen - Sep 03, 2008
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  This just seems like an intensely bad idea with the ease of information theft on the internet. Not to mention a use of energy where one is not needed.
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• DGBEACH - Sep 08, 2008
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  They should stop trying to find more uses for electricity and put their energy into finding alternate energy sources for the tough times ahead!
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