Security for whom ? The installer code is there to keep people from messing
with the settings and that is all that is necessary to safeguard the
integrity of the programming from the keypad. The panel ID is used to ensure
only the correct party is able to connect with the panel via remote
software. Access codes are there to keep the wrong people from turning off
the armed system, and that is how every alarm panel is designed to work. The
"lock" feature, however, serves to prevent theft of property when used
legitimately, and to discourage other companies from taking over the panel
by making it a bit more expensive to do. But when misused, it also prevents
the owner from having another company come in at his request and take over
responsibility for his system, or even to reprogram it as a "local" system
if that is his wish. And if the panel is HIS equipment, it prevents him from
having total control over HIS private property !
Any way you cut it, THAT part of the equation is wrong !
RHC