{"id":23822,"date":"2014-01-18T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23822"},"modified":"2014-01-18T10:44:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T15:44:15","slug":"how-safe-is-your-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/18\/how-safe-is-your-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;safe&#8221; is your safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safe manufacturers generally ship their products with a <a href=\"http:\/\/takimag.com\/article\/quarterly_potpourri_john_derbyshire_january_16_2014\" target=\"_blank\">factory-standard combination<\/a>. Many people fail to change them once the safe is in use:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In England many years ago, chatting with a locksmith while he worked, I learned the following thing: One of the country\u2019s leading manufacturers of safes shipped all its products set to a default opening combination of 102030, and a high proportion of customers <em>never reset it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He: \u201cIf I need to open a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chubb-safe.co.uk\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chubb<\/a> safe, it\u2019s the first thing I try. You\u2019d be surprised how often it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This came to mind when I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/nearly-two-decades-nuclear-launch-code-minuteman-silos-united-states-00000000\/\" target=\"_blank\">the story about Kennedy-era launch codes<\/a> for our nuclear missiles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u2026The Strategic Air Command greatly resented [Defense Secretary Robert] McNamara\u2019s presence and almost as soon as he left, the code to launch the missile\u2019s [sic], all 50 of them, was set to 00000000.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I use a random-string generator for my passwords and change them often. I guess safeguarding my Netflix account is more important than preventing a nuclear holocaust. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safe manufacturers generally ship their products with a factory-standard combination. Many people fail to change them once the safe is in use: In England many years ago, chatting with a locksmith while he worked, I learned the following thing: One of the country\u2019s leading manufacturers of safes shipped all its products set to a default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[311,107,836,334],"class_list":["post-23822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","tag-1960s","tag-nukes","tag-passwords","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23823,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822\/revisions\/23823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}