Attached is the statement by "Liberty Safes"
The warrants mentioned in the statement are NOT warrants directed at Liberty. They are search warrants for the home of an individual suspect. Liberty was and is under NO obligation to comply with such REQUESTS. Liberty furnished a non-erasable factory code to the FBI which opens a number of safes (possibly all, and almost definitely all in the series in question.)This was done OVER THE PHONE merely because the FBI requested it with NO legal strings attached. For Liberty to have any justification for this action, they would have at least had to receive a subpoena. Even if the FBI had sent them a subpoena, it is highly questionable that they would have been required to comply. (remember the stink over Apple not releasing break-out codes for the iphone a few years ago?) If you have one of these electronic safes, just know that the FBI and anyone they decide to share the information with, probably has a combination to your safe that you probably didn't even know existed.
Even if you had called and asked about it, they would have lied and said such a code doesn't exist. How do I know? A couple of years ago I called and asked about this and other things when a friend had a problem with his safe.
Besides, Liberty safes, are not hard to break into. Quality bits will cut through the steel, and any good locksmith can drill and open it fairly easily. (Drill location is the only critical factor.)So easily, that in my local market, you?re talking about less than 200 bucks. The youtube videos you see of people prying, cutting, and beating are made to get views by people that either don?t know what they?re doing or don't want to give away "secrets" of the trade.
Seems to me, we have a company that just turned over a master key to many (thousands?)of the safes sold to their customers. .. A key that is not serial # specific, otherwise they would have had no reason to withhold from their customers (much less deny its existence). Which over the years, would have caused many customers to have their safes drilled or broken when they otherwise could have simply opened it...
to save the feds a couple hundred bucks in one case...
with no interest in saving their customers money and damage to their safes.
At least in my friend's case, it was a good ending and was able to crack it electronically, so drilling wasn't necessary.