hi i found this
safe in the dumpster which is precisely
where it belongs trust me if you can
pick up a safe and throw it into the
dumpster it's not a real safe and we'll
talk about that later but i'm going to
show you multiple ways to get into this
thing because i got it out of the
dumpster and it was actually locked and
it didn't come with the key or the
combination so this is a sandalford
brand safe but i'm sure it goes under
many different uh badges and this is a
typical
ass safe that you'll get at a hardware
store you know you can buy these at
bunnings here in australia for next to
nixon you carry it out and if you can
carry a safe out then from the hardware
store then it ain't a real save anyway
these are absolute and out of garbage
i'm going to show you why i'll show you
multiple ways to get into this thing so
i found it like this it was locked it
didn't have the key and i wanted to get
into it it was trivial all i did was go
to the manufacturer's website downloaded
the manual and there's the default
factory code and sure enough i put it in
and it worked so i've actually
reprogrammed this to one two three four
and there and we unlock it and we're in
but seriously you'd be stunned at the
number of people who use safes like this
and just keep the default factory code
don't do it change it like that's the
bare minimum you can do but anyway
that's how i actually got into this safe
because they didn't bother changing the
factory code
and the next way in of course is
absolutely obvious this one has an
override key on it
sometimes they'll be like behind a flap
or but you know something like that you
may have to open but oh geez i can just
pick this thing and i'm not good at
picking locks
so this is just a double-sided or double
bit uh key and the tumbler lock and
these are really easy to pick let me
show you okay so i'm going to pick this
in one shot i am not the lock picking
lawyer so yeah i'm sure he'd do it a bit
faster i'm i'm just gonna rate this
thing okay oh i had a slip there okay
is there an ah there might have been
another slip there
let's
up there we go there we go i'm in no
worries so you saw how long that took me
it was like seconds it's trivial to pick
these sorts of lock now there are good
quality i say she can get with a good
quality key locks in them and they
require more specialized tools to
actually pick them and you know greater
skill to actually pick them but ones
like this are just they're nothing
burgers anyone with a simple raking tool
can just get into this or you can
probably just smash this out with a
punch and a hammer and this flimsy piece
of turd will just come right over
okay there's another method called bump
in which is where we're actually going
to drop the safe and hopefully we can
get into it this way and of course it's
light as you can just pick it up and
carry it away and smash into it later so
it's no protection if it's not uh
screwed in at all but anyway this is
another way in so hopefully
like it's locked here we go
and if i hold it and drop it
there we go
and there are other brands and models of
uh cheaper safes like this one where
bump in you can just like thump it right
on the top like this and do a while
you're actually turning the knob and you
can open it unfortunately this one's
slightly better designed in that you
probably saw there that i had to turn
the safe upside down to actually drop it
so let's have a look inside and see how
this happens so we'll just take the back
cover off here this is the battery
compartment there's a reset switch on
this side which is how you reset the uh
code on this thing and there you go
there's a little bit of electronics in
there for the keypad that'll just be a
blobbed chip on the back and here's the
crummy mechanism inside this thing so
this is how any basic safe is going to
work you've got a solenoid down here
which activates and electronically of
course by the circuitry after you enter
in the correct combination and we'll see
inside in a minute but basically uh
you've got a moving uh plate here which
is connected uh to the bolt work over
here and this plate is moved as i turn
the handle on the front you can see that
that whole plate shifts and when i turn
it far enough it's gonna
drop into place and you probably saw the
little plunger um there the little
spring in the solenoid it dropped down
so now
we can't open the safe anymore there's a
little plunger that lifts up this dingle
arm can actually lift that plunger up if
you turn the key or if the solenoid
activates it like that
then you can see that there's this that
metal plate just slides under
that
piece of little bit of nylon there it's
it's terrible so when we so when you uh
turn the safe like this it just drops
under its own weight just drops back and
you can hear that click and then the
only thing preventing that like from
actually opening is that tiny little bit
of nylon it's terrible there's that
plunger for the solenoid you can see
that there's a little dingle arm there
we'll call it um and then that at the
moment i can't open that but if i press
down on that which is it which is
equivalent to uh activating the solenoid
coil in there and then the magnet
electromagnet just uh pulls that shaft
down but once it goes in there the
spring
well it can't move anymore you can see
then there's a gap in there then the
slot in this plate is able to slide
across like that and so yeah that's
pretty piss-poor quality and but because
it's mounted upside down they have
actually thought about this bumping uh
attack like because this is upside down
now there there's a weight of that pin i
i really only have to feather touch that
and really that can open up and that's
why if it's upside down and you drop it
or thump it even um then you can just
get that to open but there are even
worse design safes than this one where
uh this is actually mounted up the other
way and then you can just thump it on
the top of the case and bam even if it's
bolted to the floor and the force is
just transferred through to that pin and
it's just enough to move it a little bit
to stop it opening it's these are just
garbage but this is actually the proper
principle of like a real safe um and so
i can show you one of those a key a real
key lock safe and but the devil's in the
detail of how all this is implemented
but as you can see you could probably
just smash this out right this is just a
couple of cheap ass bolts just an
aluminium plate here and right you could
probably just get a punch in there and
just smash it all out and then open it
up if you really wanted to now they did
actually go to the effort to put a cover
plate over this so that you can't like
drill through the flimsy piece and door
uh that they've got here drill through
that in two seconds and then get in
there with a coat hanger and uh you know
activate uh the mechanism and get in
that way so they're at least preventing
you from doing that but once again
they haven't designed it properly
there's still a way in that way as well
so this is a cardinal sin of any safe
design in that you've actually got just
a sticker here
which you can uh
we're getting some up we can peel this
off and that warning uh there it's not
like an anti-tamper thing that was just
uh yeah i was it was accidentally uh
pushing the buttons there and entering
the wrong uh thing but look look look
inside we got a giant hole there we
drive a truck through this thing so even
if we even with the cover plate on the
back in there we can just get in there
and access the stuff this is ridiculous
so we can just get in there
with a coat hanger
and hopefully we can manipulate this
enough
to actually
open up let's give it a try
too easy and i've even done that
with
the back installed like this now they've
tried to prevent this but once again
they've screwed up right so i've left
the coat hanger in here exactly how
this did it
will it be there yep you can see that
the coat hangers there and it's lifting
up
the dingle arm now believe it or not
they have actually thought about this
and they've gone to the effort to weld
this uh plate here which goes all the
way down to the bottom um to actually
prevent access in here but it's not
enough because the case comes out to
this depth here and you've got all this
room all this depth to get in there past
the plate and over onto the dink alarm
you've got to be kidding me and you can
see it here look there's that welded
plate right next to that slot you can
drive a truck through and i was able to
get easily
because i had like this much depth room
i had this much look i can stick my
finger under there like that and all
this room to get over there and just
bend the coat hanger over and flip
the arm there to open up the solenoid
unbelievable that they can actually know
about this and still
goof it up to that extent this is why
these are utter garbage
of course once you've got a hole in your
safe like this it just becomes
absolutely comical and especially in a
cheap ass one like this i can see both
wires through there i'm not sure if you
can see them but anyway i can see two
pairs of wires one's for the solenoid
and one's for the reset button so either
of those if we can get in there hook
those pull them out because there's i
think there's enough lead length on them
then we can either
just put a battery up to the solenoid
and open it or just reset the code oh
come on so i'm just going to give this a
go
and see if we can snag some wires
yeah well i think
they're the solenoid wires um hey come
on seriously
there you go i just pulled that through
actually no i don't think that's the
solenoid yeah i think i can see it going
up in that direction so i think that's
going off to the reset button so let's
let's give that a try so i think the top
one goes off to the switch but anyway we
can just cut that well i can just
actually short those together you can
like get little uh probes in there and
actually short them together maybe just
um actually splicing them like this will
actually uh cause it to short out so yep
yep no i don't think that did it so i'll
just strip those
i'll just touch those together
yep there we go so i'll go
one four
seven eight
hash yep i think we enter the code one
four
seven
eight
hash
yep we're in we just
we just reset the code unbelievable and
having a look in here it looks like
there's not actually enough lead length
on the solenoid wires so if i grab ah
barely and you couldn't maybe oh maybe
you could rip that out sideways and pull
it out but anyway if you were able to
get access and pull out the solenoid
wires you could just hook a battery up
to it activate the solenoid and you're
in anyway i hope you get the idea now
how crap these cheap hardware store
safes are they're absolutely pointless
to have them it just signals to people
that hey there's potentially something
valuable inside here and hey yeah i'm an
idiot and dumb enough to buy one of
these stupid safes and if you're talking
about the actual um you know physical
steel on these that's like three
millimeters um front door steel with the
code in and i can assure you that the
steel used elsewhere this is actually
thinner this is about two millimeters on
the uh sides the top the bottom and the
back even though it does actually have
the screw holes in every safe when you
install one you should screw them to a
concrete floor and or a concrete uh
backing as well as the best uh way to do
it but yeah you should bolt these things
down but it's like two millimeter mild
steel it's the most flimsy ass
construction possible and you could just
pry this open yeah i guess smash it open
with an axe or a you know a grinder
would get through this in a split second
and it's just nothing if you didn't want
to do like any of the three or four
other methods to easily get into this
thing
and there's another way to potentially
get into these as well with a magnet a
big ass neodymium magnet i'm putting it
inside a sock uh for safety and well
there we go it's it's serious business
right but it potentially if you get it
in the right spot you can activate this
solenoid in there and then just open it
but i've i've tried on this one um
various
methods i should have folded that over a
couple of times
ah can't get that off now ah this is
hilarious i did actually lock myself out
of this safe so i'm gonna have to get
back in so i can either use the coat
hanger or i can pick this thing again so
i might just try and pick it again
oh goodness come on
come on
there we go
we're in
except the bloody magnet there we go
anyway i have actually tried the uh
magnet attack on this thing and i just
cannot get it uh to do it but it is
possible um there's uh
youtube videos out there showing you uh
some safe and cheap ass ones are
actually susceptible to magnetic attacks
so what is a good quality safe well
let's toss this one out because
literally i can pick it up and toss it
and here it comes it's pretty heavy
here we go and you've seen this in
previous videos so this is similar
internal dimensions to what we had uh
before so it's one of these like home
safes and in this case it's a cmi brand
made in australia and it is a
reprimandable quality brand you want a
name brand so here in australia it might
be cmi gardol chubb
secure guard something like that you
know a major brand safe not just the
crap that you pick up from the hardware
store and this is their entry level safe
and what we're talking about here is 12
millimeters of steel on the front door
six millimeters uh steel all around and
you can see here they've got an uh once
again a anti-drill manganese uh plate
here so that's thick as what is that you
know four or five millimeters thick just
the anti-drill plate and they've got a
top quality legard um highly regarded
international brand electronic uh lock
with an external battery so there's no
like you know even if you rip this off
you're not going to be getting and be
able to get in there and actually attack
it and these are very difficult to
actually uh bypass and yeah i've done
some videos looking at um
side channel attacks on these and yeah
it's it's just ain't easy i mean there
might be people who can do it this one
does not have a manual key override it's
just electronic only so we'll take that
off and all the best safes are inspected
by clint this is an internationally
recognized carb r brand high security
electronic lock on these and you ain't
gonna bypass this anytime soon let me
tell you unless you're an absolute top
notch professional you're not getting
through this thing it's got all the
ratings and international certifications
for an electronic lock and with the anti
drill plate and the 12 millimeter front
door now of course these things aren't
absolutely bulletproof this is like an
entry level uh safe there's much higher
quality ones than this this is just a
basic one that i think you should have
as an absolute minimum not that hardware
store uh garbage and this will provide
pretty decent burglary uh protection you
know if just your regular opportunistic
uh burglar who comes along they ain't
getting into this anytime soon if you've
bolted this uh down to uh concrete floor
and or concrete wall as well and you can
see how this one's a flush mount here it
doesn't have any external hinges there's
nothing wrong with external hinges uh by
the way they're just fine because any
good quality safe will have an internal
uh anti-pry bar or dog bar as they're
called look at this just world it in
there like that and once again that is a
12 millimeter jobby in there and yeah
you just ain't gonna be busting into
this anytime soon it's a serious
commitment so if you want to step up
from a quality basic safe like this one
then you'd be looking at what's called a
tdr safe or torch and drill resistant
safe and they're actually by torch it
means actually oxyacetylene torches and
they've got special materials inside it
won't you be just solid steel like this
they've got materials in there to
actually deaden uh drill bits grinder
bits and uh torch attacks um as well
with oxy acetylene torches so yeah but
they're you know many thousands of
dollars these are like sub thousand
dollars but basically you get what you
pay for this and if you go in for a key
version there's nothing wrong with the
key or a tumblr uh locked version yes
you can actually defeat uh tumblr spin
uh locks easier but you know you've
gotta be like fairly skilled in the art
of actually
you know doing that or you've got to
have one of those automated machines
which you stick on the front and you
leave it there for an hour and spin spin
spins until it finds the combination but
then you know we're talking about
opportunistic burglaries here so if
somebody knows that you've got the save
especially if they know what type no i
don't use this uh by the way and i don't
use that other one that you source i
don't think you can break into the eev
blog lab and get into this thing and
yeah if you do want to get a key based
version none of this get a one
a proper brand name with a high security
pick resistant uh key set on it all
right let me show you what a much higher
quality key locking uh safe is going to
look like inside it's got a high
security uh anti-pick key lock here with
um x number of uh pins and here's your
uh deadbolt here and it's got a
re-locking mechanism here so it works on
the same principle here's your uh
deadbolt here
and we can retract that with our key of
course and then we can open our safe
like that it just starts swings the arms
which then swings the bolts on the side
but additional things inside here in
addition to the deadbolt here you've got
what's called a re-locker so even if you
try and like punch out this uh lock
somehow and i'll show you here i've
taken the screws out
boom now look at that it just shoots up
this pin shoots up and you cannot open
it because you've got this re-locking
spring-loaded re-locking mechanism like
this and in addition to that you've also
got an a probably a manganese anti-drill
plate in there which are deadens drill
bits going through that's in addition to
like the 10 millimeters of like solid
steel on the front so that is what
you'll get in a higher quality key safe
like you wouldn't want anything less
than this so these are just other
garbage do not buy them they're
absolutely pointless um might be okay as
a decoy safe you know to leave some fake
gold in there or something you can buy
fake gold on ebay and people think they
got themselves a score while your real
safe is uh you know hidden somewhere
else one of the first rules of course is
security by obscurity um if people know
that you've got a safe or they can see
that you've got a uh safe then they
might turn up with their code hanger and
get into your stupid ass safe so i hope
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