In determining whether keys-in-locks or keys-under-doormats is the closer analogy, I have to go with the doormats. Various people go door-to-door... delivery people, campaign volunteers, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. and a key in the lock would be hard to miss. A key under a doormat is easy to miss, being obscure. Sure -- the doormat is one of the first places you look if you're actually trying to break in, but people whose nefarious side doesn't manifest until the opportunity is obvious are indeed thwarted by that obscurity.

But do YOU want to have your good neighbor report to tou that your key has been left on the poach before someone takes it away and then get into the house when you are away from home on Thanksgiving night celebrating a nice holiday vacation? I bet you not. The fault is on you for dropping the key, isn’t it? Or you are so bluntly careless to have a backup key left under the mat on your poach which slided away and the key is now revealed.

The fact locks are easy to pick doesn’t mean people don’t take more measures to defend it. More and more people install steel door as an extra layer and home security surveillance system, all of which can be compromised with the right tools.

Responsible disclosure is something I respect. While he has the right to not disclose this privately first, has he tried? How hard is it to ask someone to get in contact with the Apple security team? There are a bunch of top sec researchers on Twitter constantly tweeting) to help escalate this. I think someone on Google zero project team did this to escalate.