Badabinski

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, although using angle grinders can possibly destroy what's inside. UL does have much more stringent standards. To quote the Wikipedia article on safes:

  TL-15 - This is a combination-locked safe that offers limited protection against combinations of common mechanical and electrical tools. The safe will resist abuse for 15 minutes from tools such as hand tools, picking tools, mechanical or electric tools, grinding points, carbide drills and devices that apply pressure. While the UL 687 defines this as a "limited degree" of protection, that standard is used for commercial applications, and the TL-15 rating offers significantly better protection than many unrated safes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers Went Looking for a Backdoor in High-Security Safes—and Now Can Open Them in Seconds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love LPL, but he tends to focus on mechanical bypasses. I feel pretty sure that the safes mentioned in this article are actually listed by UL as safes. UL, of course, fucked up with the electronic locks themselves by underwriting them, but I have much more confidence in UL's mechanical expertise. The common bypasses that LPL uses would not be present on one of these safes, and he'd likely consider them to be truly secure (this vuln nonwithstanding, of course).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The ASUS Dumpster Fire⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it was a very foolish thing to do now that I know more. I was still a bit of a dumb kid though, and you'd think that their instructions would include something to that effect. Still, I wasn't really upset at them for that. I was mad because I spent months trying to get any form of support and simply could not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The ASUS Dumpster Fire⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bricked an Asus laptop 15 years ago because their instructions on performing a BIOS update didn't include anything about what filesystem to use on the flash drive with the update file. I used NTFS (which was obviously a mistake in retrospect) and completely bricked the machine.

  I tried calling their support line 30 times and never once got to talk to a human. I eventually just gave up on that laptop and replaced it with a Mac. I've been intensely sceptical of Asus products ever since then.