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02-11-2016, 07:44 AM
How good is your safe? Maybe not as good as you think.
"Anything you buy in Home Depot, or any safe in Walmart, Costco, Staples, Canadian Tire -- it's all crap," Terry Whin-Yates (http://mrlocksmithtraining.com/about-terry-whin-yates/) (a.k.a. Mr. Locksmith) of Vancouver, Canada, said in a video posted online last week. "We can open them in less than 10 seconds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJQ2wcYjBo)."
Last year, security expert Jim Stickley showed how to open a hotel safe in less than 2 minutes (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/hotel-safes-not-safe-secure_us_55f17c9ee4b002d5c0783381). But with the magnet trick, it takes Whin-Yates about 2 seconds to access a popular type of safe he bought at Staples for $250:
"Different types of magnets will open up most hotel rooms, most inexpensive safes and most apartment buildings," Whin-Yates said in the clip. "There's very little security."
Whin-Yates said he's been threatened with multi-million dollar lawsuits over his safe-cracking demonstrations.
"We have lawsuit parties now if someone's going to threaten me," he said in the clip. "It's kind of fun -- especially if you're right."
(h/t digg (http://digg.com/video/magnet-opens-hotel-safe))
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"Anything you buy in Home Depot, or any safe in Walmart, Costco, Staples, Canadian Tire -- it's all crap," Terry Whin-Yates (http://mrlocksmithtraining.com/about-terry-whin-yates/) (a.k.a. Mr. Locksmith) of Vancouver, Canada, said in a video posted online last week. "We can open them in less than 10 seconds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJQ2wcYjBo)."
Last year, security expert Jim Stickley showed how to open a hotel safe in less than 2 minutes (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/hotel-safes-not-safe-secure_us_55f17c9ee4b002d5c0783381). But with the magnet trick, it takes Whin-Yates about 2 seconds to access a popular type of safe he bought at Staples for $250:
"Different types of magnets will open up most hotel rooms, most inexpensive safes and most apartment buildings," Whin-Yates said in the clip. "There's very little security."
Whin-Yates said he's been threatened with multi-million dollar lawsuits over his safe-cracking demonstrations.
"We have lawsuit parties now if someone's going to threaten me," he said in the clip. "It's kind of fun -- especially if you're right."
(h/t digg (http://digg.com/video/magnet-opens-hotel-safe))
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