Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
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Re: Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
#2It's a cool robot, but auto-dialers are a known tool in safecracking.
Additionally, the safe in question seems to be a SentrySafe SF082CS, which caries NO security rating from UL. The lowest test rating, RSC, only requires the safe survive a 5 minute attack with hand tools.
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#3I love this frank response from the safe manufacturer:
'... speaking to Wired magazine earlier this month, when the team demonstrated its method on a smaller safe, a spokeswoman for the safe maker said: "In this environment, the product accomplished what it was designed to do."'
Re: Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
#4So many people in SF leave their house keys in those 3 digit combination locks for Wag dog walkers. Something like this could crack that in seconds.
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#5Somebody dumb enough to leave a key to their house right next to their house in a city like SF deserves to get burglarized.
Re: Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
#6It's a cool robot, but auto-dialers are a known tool in safecracking. Additionally, the safe in question seems to be a SentrySafe SF082CS, which caries NO security rating from UL. The lowest test rating, RSC, only requires the safe survive a 5 minute attack with hand tools.
Defcon is always raising the bar.
Re: Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
#7It's a cool robot, but auto-dialers are a known tool in safecracking. Additionally, the safe in question seems to be a SentrySafe SF082CS, which caries NO security rating from UL. The lowest test rating, RSC, only requires the safe survive a 5 minute attack with hand tools.
How do I find a UL-security-rated safe? Does it matter if I don't bolt it to the floor?
Re: Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
#8I love this frank response from the safe manufacturer: '... speaking to Wired magazine earlier this month, when the team demonstrated its method on a smaller safe, a spokeswoman for the safe maker said: "In this environment, the product accomplished what it was designed to do."'
It is designed to trick people into building robots to open it? :-)
More seriously though, I consulted a friend and neighbor when buying a safe for my home. This person who owns a locksmith shop and is a registered locksmith (and has been for > 20 years) asked me to look up the median response time of the police to my address. Since I live near the police station it was fairly small. He said you only need a safe that can last 15 - 20 minutes and you will need to anchor it so that it can't be easily yanked out of your house. Any professional thief will skip it and it may keep an amateur working on it long enough for the police to arrive and arrest them in the act.
That made a lot of sense to me.
Re: Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con's stage
#9Somebody dumb enough to leave a key to their house right next to their house in a city like SF deserves to get burglarized.
What about all the houses with doors that won't stand up to a sledgehammer?
Or unbarred windows.