[Cryptography] Liberty Safe reveals that it has backdoor access to it's physical safes and provides access to law enforcement.

[erik at erikgranger.name]

Twitter/X Link:

https://twitter.com/libertysafeinc/status/1699245595867971969[1]

Transcript of post:

@libertysafeinc:

"On August 30, 2023, Liberty Safe was contacted by the FBI requesting the access code to 
the safe of an individual for whom they had a warrant to search their property. Our 
company protocol is to provide access codes to law enforcement if a warrant grants them 
access to a property. After receiving the request, we received proof of the valid warrant, 
and only then did we provide them with an access code. Liberty Safe had no knowledge of 
any of the details surrounding the investigation at the time.

"Liberty Safe is devoted to protecting the personal property and 2nd amendment rights 
of our customers and has repeatedly denied requests for access codes without a warrant 
in the past. We do not give out combinations without proper legal documentation being 
provided by authorities. 

"We regularly update our policies to ensure both compliance with federal and state law 
and reasonable consumer privacy protections within the law. First and foremost, Liberty 
Safe is committed to preserving our customers' rights, and we will remain unwavering in 
those values. "



Their customer base reacted as you can imagine to this news, with over 3,500 responses 
to this post in less than 12 hours. I haven't done an exhaustive search of the replies but I 
haven't found a single one that took this news well. The combination of most Liberty Safes 
is electronic in nature; the combination can be set by the user. This means that, at least 
from my vantage, that this can't merely be a backup of the combination but some sort of 
backdoor that is programmed in. 

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[1] https://twitter.com/libertysafeinc/status/1699245595867971969
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