Are hotel safes secure?

[Antny]

I ran across this scary video on youtube. Makes you think twice about using the hotel safe.

 

[loafingcactus]

I had to have security open one once (the previous resident had left it locked). I don't know what they had set the default as, because it was a number only the manager and head of security had. I wouldn't be happy if it were 00000 and I might test that in the future.

 

[puppymommo]

It seems a reasonable precaution to test 000000 before using a hotel safe.

 

[Lee55]

Will have to test it on the next trip.. Thanks for the infor....

 

[siesta]

Well why not test 111111 and 22222 and so on as well?

 

[loafingcactus]

Well why not test 111111 and 22222 and so on as well?

Because most combination locks come with a default setting of zeros. If the facility took the appropriate step of updating the default to a secret number, I would expect them to have used something more appropriate than another string of same numbers. That maybe overly wishful, but nonetheless zero is the most likely string, with another string being much less likely.

 

[siesta]

Because most combination locks come with a default setting of zeros. If the facility took the appropriate step of updating the default to a secret number, I would expect them to have used something more appropriate than another string of same numbers. That maybe overly wishful, but nonetheless zero is the most likely string, with another string being much less likely.

you must be an expert on default codes for hotel safes? Yes some of my briefcases have had default settings of all 0's, but definitely not all of them. And just like router default passwords to log into it to make changes, they vary by manufacturer as well.

So, if one is going to be worried enough try, it seems 9 more entries of consecutive numbers wouldnt be out of line.

 

[LisaRex]

I ran across this scary video on youtube. Makes you think twice about using the hotel safe.

Well, first they'd have to get into my roof. That makes me more nervous than them stealing my ipad.

 

[loafingcactus]

you must be an expert on default codes for hotel safes?

Nope, just one more horse's patoot on the Internet with an opinion. If I had a claim to authority to make I woulda made it.

I was prompted by the snarky to do a little google, and this has gotten a lot of attention including some interviews with safe manufactures. I still think that zeros or an unusual number (what the safe manufacturers claim should have been the default on shipping) is more likely than any other string of same numbers, but I won't be funding a Hospitality Management study to find out the real answer.

 

[Mamianka]

I had to have security open one once (the previous resident had left it locked). I don't know what they had set the default as, because it was a number only the manager and head of security had. I wouldn't be happy if it were 00000 and I might test that in the future.

Remember Spaceballs? "What idiot would use 12345 for a combination?" Seconds later - "why - that's the combination on all my luggage!"

My DH once asked me how i could possible remember a random string of consonants as a computer password. I informed him it was NOT random - it was a word in Polish And for numerical ones? Numbers that represent in solfege, the themes from famous flute solo works I perform. So if a Polish-speaking professional flutist with a knowledge of medieval vocal sight-singing skills ever steal my netbook from my timeshare - I am in deep *guvna*. Otherwise - I think I am OK. For now . . .maybe . . .

 

[dmaxdmax]

... for numerical ones? Numbers that represent in solfege, the themes from famous flute solo works I perform.

I LOVE that idea. I use the first letters of each word of a favorite song. Vktrs = Video Killed the Radio Star