Understanding Safe Controls
Introduction
This is part two of a seven blogs series in my quest to open my locked shut fire safe of which the dial combination was unknown. How I got to obtain this safe and why it was locked in the first place, can be read in an earlier blog of mine.
In my previous blog in this current series, Part 1 – Blog Series Description, my motivation behind the blog series was given. In that blog I also outline the structural approach – which is usually followed in (ethical) hacking – to open the safe.
This current blog will first describe how in general to open a safe when the number combination is known. This is called dialing the combination. After this introduction the internals of the safe lock mechanism is described and the number combination will be dialed again but now the state of the lock is inspected at every step of the dialing process so as to get a thorough understanding of the inner workings of the lock.
Continue reading “Opening a Direct Entry Fence Fire Safe by Manipulation – Part 2/7”