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

Christian Huitema huitema at huitema.net
Mon Sep 11 23:57:13 EDT 2023



On 9/11/2023 12:01 AM, Matt Palmer wrote:
> ...
> 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.

So what's the alternative? An open source safe?

-- Christian Huitema


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