Safeguard Your Home With The Biolock 333 Sn-bk Biometric Door Lock

Biometrics is a method of recognizing people using intrinsic behavior or physical traits. It is quickly being incorporated into the field of security as a way to authenticate the identity of computer users and as replacement for passwords, numerical codes, and security tokens. Instead biometric locks use technology such as retina and iris scanning, fingerprint scanning and voice print identification. When a high level of security is required, the Biolock 333 SN-BK Biometric Door Lock is one possibility worth considering. Like other devices it has both its advantages and its drawbacks.

Biolock's promotional items insist that the Biolock 333 SN-BK Biometric Door lock is an innovative device that provides entry door security equal to or better than systems used in government buildings such as the Pentagon. They promote its many features, and highlight its rugged construction and user friendliness. It has a LED control panel, remote control, and zinc alloy body. In an emergency it can be unlocked with a key like any common lock.

The lock's memory can handle the fingerprints of up to 99 users, enough to accommodate all of your residents, staff members, and guests.

The Biolock 333 SN-BK Biometric Door Lock also has three levels of registered users. The highest level user is the Super Master. Registered first, the Super Master has the authority to add or delete any of the other users. The next level are the Master Users. The second and third users registered, the Master Users can add or delete users 4 through 99. The final level is the ordinary User. Ordinary Users are granted permission to use the door but can't add or delete other users.

Biolock believes that fingerprints are the best way to control who enters your home or business. They assert that fingerprints can't be copied. However, this is not strictly the case as it has been shown that common materials such as play dough and simple techniques can be used to fool most fingerprint readers.

Fingerprint readers can also sometimes misread fingerprints. As noted in security expert Bruce Schneier's blog Schneier on Security, officials in Britain uninstalled a security system that used finger print recognition from one of their prisons when prisoners managed bypass the fingerprint reader and freely pass through the system.

Reviews for the Biolock 333 SN-BK Biometric Door Lock have been mixed. In positive reviews it is lauded as an inexpensive, easy to program, and easily installed replacement for common locks.

Negative reviews complain that while it seems like a good idea, it has been poorly designed and executed. Problems with the Biolock 333 SN-BK Biometric Door Lock include its inability to read finger prints that were dry, came from small fingers, or came from older users.

Complaints against it also include the device's failure to function at cold temperatures higher than those claimed by the company (the manual claims it functions between -13 degrees F and 125 degrees F); that it takes up too much room to be installed on doors that include a deadbolt; the user's manual is poorly written; and that Biolock technical support is difficult to contact. According to these reviews, users who've managed to contact technical support received little help other than a company representative reading from the user manual that came with the lock. Even some of the positive reviews point out some of these problems.