Comments on: Biometric Gun Safe http://www.techsmash.com/product/biometric-gun-safe.htm Technology, Gadgets And Internet ! Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Deviant http://www.techsmash.com/product/biometric-gun-safe.htm/comment-page-1/#comment-1582 Deviant Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:14:45 +0000 http://www.techsmash.com/?p=7#comment-1582 I have always been interested in new safe technologies, particularly for guns... sadly, this product (like so many others) appears to have one locking solution that is possibly robust (biometrics are always a crapshoot until they've been independently tested and validated) but then it also has what appears in these photos to be a key-override. From what little i can see in this odd angle, it looks like that's potentially a tubular lock... they're almost all uniformly horrible, and even the "good" ones can be picked in about 5 to 10 minutes, tops. Ugh. Why do manufacturers insist on installing garbage keyed locks onto their electronic systems... just to make non-technology folk "feel better in case the batteries die" or something. the best solution i ever saw was a gun safe that had two small metal contacts on the outside... where you can stick and hold a 9volt battery temporarily in just such a scenario. brilliant. I have always been interested in new safe technologies, particularly for guns… sadly, this product (like so many others) appears to have one locking solution that is possibly robust (biometrics are always a crapshoot until they’ve been independently tested and validated) but then it also has what appears in these photos to be a key-override.

From what little i can see in this odd angle, it looks like that’s potentially a tubular lock… they’re almost all uniformly horrible, and even the “good” ones can be picked in about 5 to 10 minutes, tops.

Ugh. Why do manufacturers insist on installing garbage keyed locks onto their electronic systems… just to make non-technology folk “feel better in case the batteries die” or something.

the best solution i ever saw was a gun safe that had two small metal contacts on the outside… where you can stick and hold a 9volt battery temporarily in just such a scenario. brilliant.

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