MIT Student makes new robotic safecracker
Hardware August 31st, 2006
I’ve seen a few of these around the web, and they still continue to fascinate me. It’s amazing how easy it is o crack a safe these days. With parts commonly found in junked printers, this student took a half-brute-force, half-algoritmic approach to creating a robotic safe cracker.
The end result? Instead of a brute-force attack on the combination, which could theoretically take weeks, the safe was cracked in just a few days. Not bad!
Congrats to Kyle Vogt on using a bit of forthought in his algoritm to cut out 90% of the time cost. Am I cheering on the idea of making theft easier? No. Better cracking methods make better locks.
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