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

[Matt Palmer]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 04:09:25PM -0700, Bertrand Mollinier Toublet wrote:
> > On Sep 7, 2023, at 7:31 AM, Tony Patti <crypto at glassblower.info> wrote:
> > 
> > The most likely end-result of all of this, I suspect, is encapsulated in the title of the web page at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/safe-company-under-fire-for-giving-customers-access-code-to-fbi-enjoy-bankruptcy-traitors/ar-AA1gluqI
> > “Safe Company Under Fire for Giving Customer's Access Code to FBI: 'Enjoy Bankruptcy, Traitors’”
> >  Because Liberty Safe’s competitors (e.g. Champion Safe) has been bombarded with calls from dealers to sell alternative products instead of Liberty Safe, see
> > https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/american-rebel-champion-safe-bombarded-with-calls-from-dealers-and-customers-about-the-liberty-safe-breach-1032610722
> 
> On the other hand, I am personally quite convinced by the argument I’ve
> see made by Rob Graham that, in fact, the willingness of Liberty Safe to
> provide a way to unlock a given customer safe by LE (modulo a properly
> formed warrant, crucially, I will concede, a step that might have been
> missing in this instance) is actually a favor to their customers, because
> the alternative is destructive access to the contents of the safe by LE.
> 
> In other words, it’s not that Liberty made possible something (access to
> the contents of a given safe) that was otherwise impossible, but that they
> made it possible in a non-destructive way.

It is already possible to access a safe in a non-destructive way: serve the
warrant on the safe's owner.  If they refuse, then they get locked up for
contempt and out come the diamond drills and explosive slurry.

This entire setup by Liberty Safe is just a form of key escrow, and it has
all the same weaknesses of every other key escrow scheme ever proposed.

- Matt