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

[zeb at qtt.se]

Also note that many "electronic" locks are subject to non-electronic 
low-skill attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LockPickingLawyer
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lpl+electronic+lock

Kind regards
Sebastian Stache


-----Original Message-----
From: cryptography <cryptography-bounces+zeb=qtt.se at metzdowd.com> On Behalf 
Of J.M. Porup via cryptography
Sent: Thursday, 7 September, 2023 10:36
To: erik at erikgranger.name
Cc: cryptography at metzdowd.com
Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Liberty Safe reveals that it has backdoor access 
to it's physical safes and provides access to law enforcement.

* erik at erikgranger.name <erik at erikgranger.name> [2023-09-06 08:32:41 -0400]:
> 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.

Correct. If you want a safe without electronic backdoors, the keyword search 
you want is "manipulation-resistant safe".

best,
jmp

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