I hate to interrupt a good circle jerk because I know the right loves circle jerks as much as the left, but once Liberty receives a valid search warrant, they have no choice but to comply with it or they will be fined or put in jail. At most, they can challenge the validity of the warrant. I hope that they did because even fucking Reddit of all places challenges them. But once that part is over, they have to comply.
The actual scandalous part is that there's apparently a master override code that'll open any Liberty safe. I just checked Liberty's website and the only thing that they ask for when you register is your safe's serial number. Presumably from that, they looked up the model and the corresponding manufacturer's override code. By the way, the FBI can now open any of that model of safe with the same code.
And a side note, what kind of dumbass opsec failure did the guy do that let the FBI know ahead of time what kind of safe he had?
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.
I hate to interrupt a good circle jerk because I know the right loves circle jerks as much as the left, but once Liberty receives a valid search warrant, they have no choice but to comply with it or they will be fined or put in jail. At most, they can challenge the validity of the warrant. I hope that they did because even fucking Reddit of all places challenges them. But once that part is over, they have to comply.
The actual scandalous part is that there's apparently a master override code that'll open any Liberty safe. I just checked Liberty's website and the only thing that they ask for when you register is your safe's serial number. Presumably from that, they looked up the model and the corresponding manufacturer's override code. By the way, the FBI can now open any of that model of safe with the same code.
And a side note, what kind of dumbass opsec failure did the guy do that let the FBI know ahead of time what kind of safe he had?
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.