Locksmiths have had these for years. They’ll typically show up, attach the device, and then come back in a couple of days after it’s racked through all the possible combinations and unlocked it.
Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer
Submitted 3 weeks ago by volkerwirsing@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/automatically-crack-safes-with-this-autodialer/
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
devilish666@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If I’m not mistaken, LPL once showed a video about safe crackers on YouTube. I admit it’s very cool but…he mentioned that the safe cracker takes very long to open the safe, even for easiest lock pattern
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They can take hours to dial every combination of an S&G lock. Cheaper locks are quicker. Most Sentry “safe” dials can be manipulated in minutes if you know what you’re doing, no dialer needed
These tools are also pretty expensive and difficult to source if you’re not in the industry
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I think the special thong about this one is that it’s open source and you can build it from common components, which makes sense. You literally just need a stepper or servo motor with the correct algorithm and a few bits & pieces to apply that motor to the dial.
It should be easy enough to build this for no more than a hundred bucks, maybe less if you can get cheap parts or you’re building more than one. It’s actually less complex than a basic 3d printer.
The expensive part comes from the low volume production and the professional customers. Plus the software is probably proprietary. It takes expertise and to make a business out of that means high individual prices.
So it’s really a perfect candidate for open sourcing.
pachito@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
You’re correct. Here it is in action: m.youtube.com/watch?v=vkk-2QEUvuk
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought it was some homebrew control for the shower.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ugh hate those locks. Only one guy could open them, when asked how he would “show” you buy doing it in under a second. Then you ask him again he shugs and says “muscle memory”. Arsehole.
Nobody knew which way to spin it first and the bloody code didn’t work! I swear that code was wrong! Spent hours on that stupid safe. My colleagues spent hours on that stupid safe it doesn’t work! Piece of shit lock.
Honestly greatest thing about leaving that job. Not having to deal with that safe.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Turn the dial counterclockwise past your first number three times, stopping on it the fourth time. Dial clockwise to the second number three times, dial counterclockwise to the third number twice, turn the dial clockwise until you feel the bolt retract. The latch will engage at about 0 and the dial will turn no farther than 85, probably it will stop at 90. Turn the lock lever to open the door
Skill issue
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait so. You are supposed to go past the last number until around 85-90? I think it was a 4 digit code as well if I remember right. So I spun it atleast 5 times. Well I spun it whatever direction I started way over what I needed as time went on.
Well yeah obviously. Possibly wrong conbination too. Bit weird that only one person could open it and he wouldn’t tell you how.
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Man this reminds me of the lockers we had in middle school that used dial locks, cheap masterlock jobbies that despite having notches between the major numbers, just being within 2 of the actual number would register.
Plus it felt like they’d slip internally so if you dialed too quickly (because class starts in 3 minutes at the other end of the building) you’d have to start all over.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
We have a safe at work where we keep backups and ‘legal hold’ stuff. We hardly ever need to get into it. The first audit we had after I started and the guy who had been running things walks up to the safe and just opens it… without entering the code. The auditor looks at me, and I look at my employee and ask him if the safe is broken, and he said “No, I put the code in earlier so it would be easier to open for the audit.”
Needless to say, we got dinged on that part of the audit.
Flemmy@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Thanks to the Lockpickinglawyer I now have 2 different locks on my door.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Now you can keep out LPL for 30 seconds!
kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I used to not understand them, but learning how their internal mechanism functions has helped a lot. Now I can just visualize what’s happening inside the infernal contraption