About two years ago, security researchers James Rowley and Mark Omo got curious about a scandal in the world of electronic safes : Liberty Safe, which markets itself as “America’s #1 heavy-duty home and gun safe manufacturer," had apparently given the FBI a code that allowed agents to open a criminal suspect's safe in response to a warrant related to the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol building .

Politics aside, Rowley and Omo were taken aback to read that, it was so easy for law enforcement to penetrate a locked metal box—not even an internet-connected device—that no one but the owner ought to have the code to open. “How is it possible that there's this physical security product, and somebody else has the keys to the kingdom?” Omo asks.

So they decided to try to figure o

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