By the way, the FBI can now open any of that model of safe with the same code.
That's the biggest problem here. A warrant may apply in this specific case, but the FBI was given the capability to open any Liberty safe in any future case without a warrant. Liberty gave away those owners' privacy without a fight.
This completely ruins any value these safes might have had, because simply knowing those codes exist gives incentive for somebody to figure them out. All it's going to take is for one guy to reverse engineer or otherwise hack into one of these safes and leak those codes for everyone.
hack into one of these safes and leak those codes for everyone
And I hope they do. Sorry to anyone out there who owns one of these. Blame the company for putting a rootkit on your safe, not the "security researcher" who exposed it.
That's the biggest problem here. A warrant may apply in this specific case, but the FBI was given the capability to open any Liberty safe in any future case without a warrant. Liberty gave away those owners' privacy without a fight.
This completely ruins any value these safes might have had, because simply knowing those codes exist gives incentive for somebody to figure them out. All it's going to take is for one guy to reverse engineer or otherwise hack into one of these safes and leak those codes for everyone.
And I hope they do. Sorry to anyone out there who owns one of these. Blame the company for putting a rootkit on your safe, not the "security researcher" who exposed it.