Posted on 10/19/2023 3:52:58 PM PDT by CFW
Fortress Safe has recalled 61,000 biometric gun safes which use fingerprint technology to unlock after a child managed to open one and kill himself.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Fortress ordered the withdrawal of the safes from the market because the biometric reader on the lock can be opened by unauthorized users.
It is unclear how or why the glitch has occurred.
In their recall, the government agency said they are aware of a lawsuit against Fortress alleging a 12-year-old died after obtaining a firearm from one of these safes and shot himself. Further details on the tragic incident - including the boy's identity - have not been disclosed.
CPSC said there have been 39 incidents of consumers reporting that their safes have been accessed by unpaired fingerprints.
'Consumers can believe they have properly programmed the biometric feature when in fact the safe remains in the default to open mode, which can allow unauthorized users, including children, to access the safe to remove hazardous contents, including firearms,' said the recall announcement.
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Could there be two people with the same fingerprint?
Maybe that the kid’s fingers were some programmed into it. Or, it is a serious glitch. Biometric safes aren’t used just for guns.
far more likely it wasn’t closed all the way, than he managed to open it somehow
“Fortress”
Riiiiiight.
“CPSC said there have been 39 incidents of consumers reporting that their safes have been accessed by unpaired fingerprints.
‘Consumers can believe they have properly programmed the biometric feature when in fact the safe remains in the default to open mode, which can allow unauthorized users, including children, to access the safe”
I bought a biometric pistol safe and no master how many times I tried, the stupid thing woul fail to open when I put my finger on the reader.
I went back to me “type the number code” and threw the biometric one out. Couldn’t trust it.
“Matter”, not “master”. Idiot spellcheck..
So much for AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4SjajIO5qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogELZ78OfyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lE4Tz2I_Y
https://youtu.be/QNMeeVcVvjw?list=PLpIvUbO_777w09aqKK-L-3eINJtxfKhKc
https://youtu.be/0gYsWE6K8u4?list=PLpIvUbO_777w09aqKK-L-3eINJtxfKhKc
My Samsung smartphone is astonishingly accurate in the fingerprint process. (And fast).
And I’m in the fingerprint “business”.
Thanks. It’s an odd way of phrasing it. “Consumers can believe they have properly programmed the biometric feature when in fact the safe remains in the default to open mode, which can allow unauthorized users, including children, to access the safe”.
Sounds like the consumers are not properly programming it, but I am not sure from that sentence. Maybe there is a glitch that keeps them from shutting off the default to open mode.
Probably a glitch in the fingerprint processing software, once it is scanned. It might not be as sensitive as needed to see all the differences in fingerprints?
-PJ
Cacagoo… lol.
I guess it does a one-point match.
My hands are so dry, my finger prints rarely register properly for finger print readers.
On my job, they had to run a background check on me every five years
Every time they took my finger prints for the FBI check I would have to use hand lotion before the finger print scanner would pick up my finger prints.
I would never buy a gun safe with a finger print reader. Or anything else.
I love that guy.
L
Might be your proofread app.
Not only that but biometric gizmos just replace the key, the locking mechanism is no better that an cheap safe that you can learn to open from YouTube.
The boy was 12 and should have been taught how to handle a firearm.
Yes the safe might have not functioned properly but this could also have been avoided by the kid knowing what he was doing.
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