Safecracking for fun and possible profit

[unixronin]

We were given a small rolling safe some years ago that I've tried several times (unsuccessfully) to crack.  The combination had been lost, and the owner had moved to Alaska leaving no forwarding address and dropped off the face of the planet.  The only condition was, "If you get it open and there's any personal-looking papers in there, please send them back to me.  Anything else in there is yours."

Wonder if I could rent one of these automated safecracking machines for an hour or so?

I suppose one of these days we'll have to call a locksmith and say, "Hi, open this for us, please."

Comments

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Matt Blaze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Blaze) has given talks at the last few Hacker's Conferences about lock picking and safe cracking. Odds are that his web site has papers ...

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't be *that* hard to build one of those devices. Possibly with parts that you have lying around, or are able to canibalize from other bits.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

HOW CAN YOU STAND THE SUSPENSE???

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Like this. :)

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Out of sight, out of mind.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That too. :)

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

I recommend this site, it's worked wonders for old locker locks.
http://www.fusor.us/lockpick.html

If you do find said papers, how will you said person?

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Well, we'd finally have a name...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

This, unfortunately, isn't a Master lock. I've tried a couple of different techniques for finessing the safe lock, and haven't had any success to date. It's time to either brute-force it, or get a locksmith involved.

If you do find said papers, how will you [contact, I assume] said person?

Well, that may present a bit of a problem at this point. We'll just have to play that by ear. Even if there's nothing valuable in the safe, it's basically a nice little safe, though it desperately needs the current pinkish-tan paint replaced with a coat of a nice black crackle or something like that.

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

I vote for a small quantity of C4...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Fun, but I'd prefer to have a usable safe afterwards. :)

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Picky picky picky

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

Says the person who has offered to help us move.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose it would move things. Not in an organized or useful fashion, but .......