Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

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Wired
4 days ago
Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds

Overview

two yearsago, security researchers James Rowley and Mark Omo got curious ascandal in the world of electronic safes: Liberty Safe, which markets itself as “America’s #1 heavy-duty and gun safe manufacturer,” had apparently given the FBI a code that allowed agents to open a criminal suspect's safe in response to a warrant related to theJanuary 6, 2021, invasion of the US Capitol building. Politics aside, Rowley and Omo were taken aback to read that it was so easy for law enforcement to penetrate a...

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