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• hvs
  I'm a strong supporter of the "I did it because I wanted to see if I could do it" ethos. So this isn't a criticism of the project itself, but I'm pretty sure a snap gun will beat this almost every time.
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  MarkusQ
  Cool idea but I'm not buying the justification. There are many cases where the correct response to "but law enforcement needs a way in" is "we have a system for that, it's called a warrant."Further, while standing somewhere for five minutes may be obvious in some situations, there are many cases in which it wouldn't be obvious at all, or the response time would be great enough that this could still be quite useful to bad guys.Finally, "security through counting on slow hardware" is probably even worse than security through obscurity.
• 3eb7988a1663
  There is also a Safe Cracking Robot[0] Blog about it: https://joeleb.com/safe-cracking-robot-defcon/[1] Defcon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9vIcfLrmiA
• showerst
  What a fun project! The use of wires to get around the corner is such a clever idea, although I see that goes back to the 90s. I'm surprised the idea isn't older.I wonder what makes it take a minimum of 0.7s per combo, it seems like it could be sped up substantially.
• kittywantsbacon
  I'm surprised this doesn't use the lishi tools
• JKCalhoun
  There is a link to AliExpress in the README that is broken. Another comment though suggests something like the "Sputnik Pickling Tool".Maybe like this wild machine: https://youtu.be/CLcOZhq2GjQ?si=LJktKRzeHPRyXcXR&t=155
• IshKebab
  > brute force all possible combinationsSomewhat less impressive than I was expecting. The wire idea is neat though.