Pin code digital lock is one of the most popular smart locks in Malaysia due to its keyless convince and security level. PIN is your Personal Identification Number and a Pin Code is an electronic key that smart locks use to grant you access to your house. A secure pin code is all it takes to make your home safer. Pin Code Digital Lock models like Philips Series 9100 come with all-around alarm functions as an anti-theft measure, regularly update you about the status of your door and makes remote management possible. This is a state of the art, next-generation technology from the future to make your homes more secure. While smart locks are very secure and most efficient anti-theft technology and there have been no official reports of crimes regarding them, there is no reason you should not take every possible measure to improve the efficacy of their security. As overriding the security protocols of a pin code digital lock by physically tampering with it is nearly impossible and hacking it is very difficult the on way to breach is through stealing or guessing the pin code. Now it is your responsibility to safeguard your pin code from getting stolen.

You must ensure that your pin code is a secure digital sequence which cannot be easily guessed by a burglar. This is as important as selecting a bank security number or your ATM card pin, so you must be very careful in selecting this number and must not pick a number just from the top of your head. When it comes to choose a secure pin code you must pay more attention to what numbers not to use than what numbers to use.

What numbers not to use for pin code digital lock?

1. Do not use your birthday or birthday of your girlfriend, wife or your child as such information is fairly easy to acquire. Do not use a number that can be easily associated with you, like the model or making year of the car you are currently driving, your driving license number, the first or last digits of your current phone number, your id card, your passport number or the registration number of your vehicle are also easily accessible and unsafe pin codes.
2. Unlike manual digital locks, the electronic digital lock lets you repeat a number in the pin code. This gives you more options to choose from. However repetitive numbers like famous 0000 or 1111 or even not so popular 2222 and 6666 are not advisable as they are very easy for someone peeking at you to grasp. It is recommended you do not repeat a number more than twice and do not repeat more than one number.
3. Sequential numbers like 1234 or 6789 or even reversed sequences like 4321 are also fairly easy to figure out if someone gets a quick peek while you are putting in your numbers.
4. To avoid a number that can be easily associated with you or guessed, do not get carried away and chose a number that you cannot remember. Always chose a number sequence that you can easily remember.
5. Do not re-use a sequence for your pin code digital lock that you are already using as a pin for your bank or another service. Same goes for if you have multiple pin code digital locks installed at your home. This might be tempting because it will be just easier to remember but in case someone can bypass the security of one lock, he will easily have access to do the other. Use a different pin code for every smart security device.

What numbers are secure to use for pin code digital lock?

While there is a huge number of the digital sequence you can choose from when looking for a pin code for your smart lock, it is highly recommended to choose a pin code you can remember easily. It is a piece of common advice to use numbers that are remotely related to your past. Some examples from vast possibilities are given below for your convenience:

1. Part of a phone number from your childhood.
2. Part of an old vehicle plate number that you owned years ago.
3. The year you graduated from high school
4. Your college registration number
5. Your parents’ wedding anniversary
6. Rent of the previous house you lived in
7. The year you bought your first car
8. The amount you annually pay to your insurance company
9. The year you got your first job
10. Pick an entirely random date and save it in your phone calendar as security guard’s birthday

Precautionary Measures for Pin Code Digital Lock

To make sure that your secure pin code digital lock stays secure, you must guard your pin code all the time. Some precautionary steps you should take are mentioned below:

1. Do not give out your pin code to anyone by writing it on paper. It is important that you understand your pin code to the digital door lock is confidential information, and you treat it like one. Instead, tell them verbally or send them a text message. If you write it down on a paper and they carelessly drop it without properly destroying the confidential information, a potential burglar can get hold of it. Security of your home should be seen no more different than your bank security.
2. If you feel you have too many pins to remember and you might forget them, save them in your phone under fake names of friends and use your local area phone code to make them look like a real phone number. This way your security pin codes stay safe even when someone tries to hack your phone or go through your phone without your knowledge.
3. As a significant number of burglaries in Malaysia are attempted by teenager boys and maids from the neighborhood it is important to look out for peekers before you enter your password in the pin code digital lock. Philips Series 5100 Rim Lock and  Philips  Series 6100 are pin code digital locks that have got you covered for such situations as they allow you to enter fake pin by putting in random numbers as long as you can consecutively put in the correct pin code.
4. Consider models like Philips Alpha, Philips Series 7100 and Philips Series 9200 who with dual verification process offer extra security through pin code and fingerprint verification. Do not bother with a pin code if you have a feeling that you are being watched. Instead, get access through verifying your fingerprint. Their semiconductor fingerprint sensor identifies you in less than 0.2 seconds.
5. If you had your pin code saved in your phone number or you sent it to another person through phone and the phone with your pin code saved in it gets stolen, immediately change your pin code as an extra precautionary measure.
6. Please do not let anyone else (maids, servicemen or tenants) other than yourself change the batteries of your pin code digital door lock because physical access to internal parts of some smart locks can let anyone with little technical knowledge create a new pin code for themselves without any verification. This can severely violate the security of your door.