Unless hes an ambulance chaser hes staying in a hotel that he would not be able to pick. And these safes are not secure. By any means. The hotel can easily open them as they have to do when guests forget their password or check out without retrieving their belongings. Which happens a lot. They have to have a procedure to open them. At some point maybe the night guy has to call and get the procedure from the maintenance guy at 3am due to an emergency. So now the front desk guy knows how to do it and no one really knows he knows. Happens all the time.
I'm a hotel manager and I work overnights without any support from our engineering team... Ive worked in a hotel for 5 years! and tonight i had a guest locked out of their safe. I used your video and it got me in!.... My engineering team has a hell of a time tomorrow now having to go around resetting all of our safes admin codes..
I wonder how your wife reacts when you go somewhere. Mrs LPL: honey. Come look at the view. LPL: hello. This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today.. Mrs LPL: Not again.
LockPickingLawyer's wife finally convinces him to take a vacation and leave all his locks at home. He was looking nervous and sweaty... like withdrawals were setting in and he starts eyeing out other people's locked cars, etc. His wife notices and says those magic words to the check-in clerk: we need the best room safe you have...bring several.
Not Pulverman it was meant to b a joke like people saying "I'm this & I think it's funny" as though them finding it funny means it's only now acceptable instead of just being fine in the first place without unnecessary validation
This would actually be really good news for the hotel guest. They could set their own admin password and be guaranteed that even the hotel staff is not going to get in easily.
Hi Harry, After locking the safe, another precaution you should take is wiping each button column with your thumb. This prevents the use of the invisible ink pen and ultra violet light method of determining the correct buttons to press - but not the sequence. Hotel staff have been known to use this trick to access hotel safes. Regards, Brian.
David Scott Show up at the hotel, charge everything you possibly could to your room, order the most expensive room service every day, and drink the shit out of that minibar. Then at checkout time tell them your wallet's in the safe, and it won't open. Leave.
Thank you very much. You just saved me an unknown fee. I closed the safe in the Airbnb and it locked. The agent said they would send someone, and they would tell me how much it costs, when they are there. I checked your video and had it open in 2 minutes. It was a different safe but double clicking the # key took me into the right mode to try common override codes. Thanks again!
I am also a lock-picking lawyer. Lagavullin 16 is my favourite scotch. Is that coincidence, or did the same madness that made us become lock-picking lawyers also make us crave smoky, peaty scotch?
When LPL called down to reception to make them aware of this breach of security they noticed he'd removed his door lock and upgraded it by adding a set of spools
Same thing happened with a local business. They have electronic keypads to access doors, including toilets and staff areas (different doors had different four digit PINs, BUT they forgot to change the six digit master code). I had to tell the receptionist because I discovered the master code could actually open all doors, to which they admitted they knew about the code but didn't realise that it wasn't changed by the manager.
TheCrossedEyedGamer nah bruh its a parody of this guy called Adolf hitler, he once said Nein or some shit, I can’t remember what else. Something to do with genocide, funny stuff, amirite?
Not to mention most hotel safes can be unlocked via the emergency password reset button inside the safe with a wire coat hanger or something similar. Most of those reset bottoms are a straight shot from the hinged side of the door leaving it the perfect way to unlock a locked safe
So that raises the moral question ... do you tell management. They either think you're a pain in the ass & humor you, or they fix the problem and appreciate you bringing it to their attention. It's a real ... CRAP SHOOT with people!
LPL I can't say I'm surprised. I understand Bosnian Bill's father-in-law has been having security issue's with his liqueur cabinet lately. Heard his latest loss has been a bottle of Lagavulin ... coincidence?
Concurring with +Nathan Fielure: guessing passwords you're not meant to have is computer trespass in most jurisdictions. If you want to notify, do it in a letter after you've left the premises, and in a way that doesn't admit that you actually used the administrative password. Being prosecuted in an innocuous case like this is unlikely, and a good lawyer can always make a case that the law shouldn't apply, but it's not worth the risk of admitting to breaking into a computer system and hoping the manager, owner, police and/or jury won't behave in a way that you find unreasonable. PS: "It was easy to guess" is not a defense: it's the digital equivalent of saying "I was just seeing if his locks were hard to pick." You've heard it before: "don't pick locks you don't own." It applies to passwords too.
Hey Lock Picking Lawyer, I found 2 related flaws with the Abus Bordo combination locks, I was hoping to tell you about them so you can look into them. Flaw one is that the false gates are easy to find but if you line up 4 false gates in a row it becomes obvious if you are in a non false gate. You can also feel the difference between false gates and the real gate, even without the last step this reduces the number of possible combinations from 10,000 to around 625. The second flaw is that you can use the location of the false gates to decode where the real gates are. There are three different patterns to decode, the first dial, both middle dials are the same, and the last dial. No matter the combination, the pattern of false gates is always the same it will be like "not, false, not, not, false, not, false, false, false, true," so if you can can initially find a false gate on each dial and about half the digits are false gates. As far as I know no one else has discovered these flaws though I'm sure anyone else who looks at these locks with a keen eye will be able to spot these flaws. Anyways, love your videos and hope to see one about this in the future.
In October of 2023, I was moving from southern California to the northeastern United States. Before my trip, I watched this video and decided that I would test this code at all of the rooms that had a safe in it. Literally every single hotel aside from one had the exact same override code that you shared here. I will absolutely never be trusting these safes again.
The simplest way to open these is with a neo magnet over the solenoid, less than 1 second it's open and no prints. This works with most electronic safes.
Saw your video on Reddit (it's getting a decent amount of upvotes). Clear, concise, good video, good audio, easy to understand and to the point, no obnoxiously loud opener, no "LIKE AND SUB!!!!" 3 seconds into the video...in short, exactly how youtube videos should be. So I came here to give you an upvote as well as watch the video w/o my adblocker on. I know it's only a copule cents, but hopefully others read this and do the same.
Looking up the owners manual for various soda and vending machines may lead you to price changes and more. It's been many years since I last looked into it myself, but I recall some very interesting default codes from just pushing a specific sequence of buttons without a key.
Nah, I've seen those. They only go in and show you the sales reports. All the pricing is done in the control panel after you open up the lock as it is inside.
Thank you for sharing my hotel safe had low battery and did not lock correctly, I was able to use this trick and get back my expensive camera and wife’s Nintendo switch without calling maintenance.
Oh wow, that is really unsafe. Your whisky is in danger! Tell you what, why don't you send it to me for safe-keeping instead. Trust me, I'll keep it very closely guarded. LOL
Man i like how you're so mellow and kick ass on lock picking some could be a little longer but you pick some pretty fast i am very impressed thats why i subscribed to your channel
That is a great whiskey!!. I always wondered how safe these safe's are... (i store expensive divicng computers and passports in there.. Ty for clearing the safety issue
After Agent 86 failed to use his shoe to open the cheap safe that LPL opened with a magnet: "Missed it by THIS much, Chief!" (Technically, he would not have been able to so, because Smart used his shoe phone shoe!)
Traveling through South East Asia 2010, I tried to set the code in my hotel in Malaysia with my birth date (easy to remember and I always use it). After many unsuccessful attempts, I called room service who then told me that code is what they use to open every safe in the hotel.
It's good that you made sure that all the hotel staff and independent contractors who pass through an occupied room know how to get into those locked safes. We wouldn't want the contents of the safe to be secure.
I would reccomend you to delete this comment, just in case since, believe it or not, this is actually illegal, as a comment thread above has explained.
@@icecold1805 I can't find the thread you mentioned but it would be interesting to see. I've never heard of a law which would cover the sharing of a generic safe code.
The admin password can only be changed once. It can also be 000000 or 111111 depending on the vintage of the safe. A sharp tap from a hammer on the top edge of the door will often cause the limit switches to make contact, causing the lock to re-adjust the bolts. they will return to the home or open position. As a last resort, a small hole can be drilled on the side of the safe -- it is mild steel -- about one inch in from the front and about 2" down from the top. This will permit you to push on the bolt with a screwdriver. Remember that a safe keeps honest people honest. It does not protect your valuables. Do not take expensive jewelry or other valuables on vacation with you. If you have something truly valuable, ask the hotel to lock it in a "bank" at the front desk. You are still at the mercy of hotel staff, but there is at least a certain liability for the hotel if you use the "bank."
Had a similar experience way back when I was a young lad, set the safe code to “9111” (I wanted a Porsche 911 back then) but by pressing the lock key after previously locking the safe and then entering “1234” it unlocked. Same sort of system in that the master code had not been erased!
Having been a jewel thief, arrested in Beverly Hills at the Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel in 1996, I can confirm. I did not open any room safe in this manner, but they are not very well designed. At the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, I opened one by removing it from its mounting, on particle board, and simply bounced it on the bed to cause the spring loaded locking mechanism to bounce out of place, and then turned the locking knob to open. I did it this way, because the hotel had discovered my previous method, which was to simply move the plastic border around the locking mechanism and insert a piece of wire through the gap, and push on the back of the teeter-totter type locking pawl, which it kept in place with a spring on the back side. They replaced the plastic with metal, but I had previously taken one of them and dismantled it. When I saw how they had changed the plastic, I remembered how the locking system worked internally and realized I could bounce it open if I removed it from its mounting, which was poorly done.😏 I got into the rooms by making a core key to remove the IC core from any room and replacing it with one of my own. They did rekey them once, but I just made another. This is all documented, as my trial was printed in the LA paper.
Man I wish I had known this years ago when I locked...something...in one of these and fumbled the code I meant to enter. Luckily if you put the wrong code in serval times it only locks you out for a few minutes and resets the timeout. It took a few hours but I finally got it opened.
LPL, have you ever looked at the Challenger safe from Hospitality Safe Corp? We use them at the hotel I work at, also our rooms use the Safloc door lock
In my experience as a locksmith this is the case with pretty much every hotel safe. Including ones with random set master codes(they leave the sticker on). That said, these safes are not a form of security in any way. The hotel isn't going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars per room for a safe for you to put your valuables into, these things cost about a hundred dollars a piece at most and the price point gives you an idea of the security level. Most can be opened with a rubber mallet, the rest with a small crowbar like a nail puller.
Came here again after watching [1169] to refresh my memory. It occurs to me that the hotel wants to be able to access the safe if the guest forgets their password, or leaves with the safe locked. If there are 300 rooms in the hotel they are not about to reset the "super" password to their own number. Lazy? Yup. And if they did reset it they would probably be brilliant and use the room number as the new code.🤣
You need to do a follow-up video demonstrating how to set the default admin pin to something else! The rest of the hotel might not be safe, but that one would be.
thank you my son was playing with the safe and locked my wallet in the safe and didn't know what buttons he pushed so i tried this and it worked So hotel safes are NOT SAFE!
Also, I’ve been able to hack open every hotel room I’ve been in with a safe. By shining a light on the buttons, I’ve been able to see oils from fingers on buttons. Sequence is easily deduced from amount of oil on buttons. First number in sequence has most oil, the next has less and so on. It has worked every time. I’m guessing maybe it’s because it’s the admin code entered by staff at check out/cleanup?? So wipe down your buttons after enter ring your own code. But that still doesn’t stop sticky fingered hotel staff.
I admire you. If you can open the car locks , bike locks and motor bike locks in less than 6 seconds like motorbike thieves do in Asia you are awesome. Otherwise you know it
I have seen him open wafer locks, which cars are, in 5-10 seconds, so yeah. There is a reason we have car alarms... The locks themselves can be opened by a Popsicle stick.
Always read the directions when you buy a digital anything. My digital door locks came with individual administrator codes, but my digital safes all came with generic, universal codes. LIke Windows and most routers come with universal passwords that most people don't change. You expect more in a hotel.
I’ve never really understood hotel safes... maybe I stay in fancy places, but those hotel doors seem harder to break into than most room safes.... so that means you’re really only protecting the stuff from the staff, but that person also knows how to get that safe open anyway. Sooo, I just leave crap in my bag...
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Receptionist: here is your room key sir
LPL: That wont be necessary
said no one
@@xl000 shut fuck up
@@xl000 right over your head big guy
Unless hes an ambulance chaser hes staying in a hotel that he would not be able to pick. And these safes are not secure. By any means. The hotel can easily open them as they have to do when guests forget their password or check out without retrieving their belongings. Which happens a lot. They have to have a procedure to open them. At some point maybe the night guy has to call and get the procedure from the maintenance guy at 3am due to an emergency. So now the front desk guy knows how to do it and no one really knows he knows. Happens all the time.
@Cory shut fuck up, you are embarrassment
So, it's a SAFE? No WONDER I couldn't get my dinner warmed up in there!
So it's a microwave no wonder all my cards melted!
tripjet999 Make sure the dinner is stolen next time, it'll be hot.
Alex Duggan wow. Quite ironic for you to whoosh gribbo, when his jokes just wooshed right over YOUR head
You think thats funny i work in a hotel and weve genuinely had people call saying their microwave wont open :p
Exactly, and that fancy water fountain in the bathroom tasted like ass.
OK You opened the safe. NOW OPEN UP THAT SCOTCH!!!!!!!! 👍
You know that it starts getting hazardous when LPL has to open anything meant to be opened by regular humans ... like a package. Or a bottle.
They were just ASKING for it when they put LPL in a hotel room with a safe 😂
SE Lock and Key hahaha, I was thinking the same thing.
Good stuff. And yes, public service announcement for sure. Thanks LPL. Just drove two hours, I needed a stress reliever.
In the hotels defence, he probably doesn't have Master Lockpicker on his business card!
SE Lock and Key No Kidding!! Haha
They don't know he's LPL though...
I'm a hotel manager and I work overnights without any support from our engineering team... Ive worked in a hotel for 5 years! and tonight i had a guest locked out of their safe. I used your video and it got me in!.... My engineering team has a hell of a time tomorrow now having to go around resetting all of our safes admin codes..
how can I change the master code in my safe?
Lol
Maintenance: "oh no... That's a 9 hour job"
Not to 000000, right? _NOT_ to 000000, _RIGHT_ ?!
Yes😂
I wonder how your wife reacts when you go somewhere.
Mrs LPL: honey. Come look at the view.
LPL: hello. This is the Lock Picking Lawyer and today..
Mrs LPL: Not again.
Lmao
"Wait let me pick this real quick"
no click on left nipple, right is binding
@@yuliappkuhne5437 "aaand we're in"
yesssssssss
LockPickingLawyer's wife finally convinces him to take a vacation and leave all his locks at home. He was looking nervous and sweaty... like withdrawals were setting in and he starts eyeing out other people's locked cars, etc. His wife notices and says those magic words to the check-in clerk: we need the best room safe you have...bring several.
*So you just yell in German at the safe and it will open???*
*NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! NEIN NEIN!NEIN!*
exactly my thoughts.. I mean mein thoughts
Danny Blue u being foreign does not hinder the joke.
Being German would hinder the joke.
Not Pulverman it was meant to b a joke like people saying "I'm this & I think it's funny" as though them finding it funny means it's only now acceptable instead of just being fine in the first place without unnecessary validation
TJ Frye. What?
Confirmed lustig!
This would actually be really good news for the hotel guest. They could set their own admin password and be guaranteed that even the hotel staff is not going to get in easily.
And when the hotel guest forgets their password and asks the admin to please retrieve their stuff, everybody loses! Except the safe.
@@TheYoutwoob not a problem. The safe has a key override.
@@TheYoutwoob if you're really That stupid, you deserve to lose your stuff
Until you get the psychos that would probably put something harmful in there...
@@Physco219 Could you point to where the keyhole is? There doesn't seem to be any
Hi Harry, After locking the safe, another precaution you should take is wiping each button column with your thumb. This prevents the use of the invisible ink pen and ultra violet light method of determining the correct buttons to press - but not the sequence. Hotel staff have been known to use this trick to access hotel safes. Regards, Brian.
Brian Hignett good advice
Thanks... good advice. I’m always amazed at the ingenuity of the criminal mind!
Luckily they weren't smart enough to look up the admin code and make it easy on themselves
This is what the Good Guys do in "Mission Impossible" and "James Bond" movies...[on JJ Abrams movies, they use explosives and lots of camera flare...]
I was inspired by LPL to wipe the keypad of my home alarm clean so there isn't dirt buildup on the digits in the code.
Now you can change the admin password ;-)
That's probably the best way to solve the problem. Of course the hotel may be annoyed by it, but when they discover it you'd be long gone.
Potti314 Change it, then tell them 2 months later that you’ve changed the code « in one of the rooms ».
the hotel would never know and will not care.
ehsnils change the code then tell them you're locked out and you want your stuff. Watch them freak out. They would blame someone else.
David Scott Show up at the hotel, charge everything you possibly could to your room, order the most expensive room service every day, and drink the shit out of that minibar. Then at checkout time tell them your wallet's in the safe, and it won't open. Leave.
Thank you very much. You just saved me an unknown fee. I closed the safe in the Airbnb and it locked. The agent said they would send someone, and they would tell me how much it costs, when they are there. I checked your video and had it open in 2 minutes. It was a different safe but double clicking the # key took me into the right mode to try common override codes.
Thanks again!
1-2-3-4? That's amazing. I have the same combination on my luggage!
Oh great. A druish princess.
Aaand it's gone
Totally unrelated, when is your next trip at, i want to bring you some cookies 👹
Prepare Space Ball 1 for immediate departure! And change the combination on my luggage!
We're gonna have to go right to... ludacris speed!
I've found hotel safes that opened with the code "0000", even if you set a different code.
That is such a ridiculous password. It would been among the 1st 5 codes I tried.
@@hughjaynus it's like when you buy a modem and the default password is "password." It is obvious because it is supposed to be changed right away.
I actually made a video about this eight years ago ruclips.net/video/ZXv9gHvPXVc/видео.html
@@ExTechOp no one cares .
@M Σ G Λ a person can comment without caring nitwit lls
Boy you are so good at educating myself and I.m sure many other people about the pitfalls of locks in general .Thanks
congrats man - you've hit the big time in australia [for what it's worth] - video is featured on the yahoo news page!
Thanks... I saw it!
I am also a lock-picking lawyer. Lagavullin 16 is my favourite scotch. Is that coincidence, or did the same madness that made us become lock-picking lawyers also make us crave smoky, peaty scotch?
@@rickt.1870 You might like Auchentoshan as well -- it's extremely light, with no peat or smoke flavour to speak of.
I'm guessing that being a lock-picking lawyer makes you despair so *much* for the world you're driven to *drink* scotch.
@@rickt.1870 for me both Aberlour and Lagavullin are nice
When LPL called down to reception to make them aware of this breach of security they noticed he'd removed his door lock and upgraded it by adding a set of spools
" ... and here it is how I stole this 16 yo whiskey bottle in this room which is not mine !"
^^
OMG Lagavulin. A man of taste and lock picking skills! Good Choice!
Same thing happened with a local business. They have electronic keypads to access doors, including toilets and staff areas (different doors had different four digit PINs, BUT they forgot to change the six digit master code). I had to tell the receptionist because I discovered the master code could actually open all doors, to which they admitted they knew about the code but didn't realise that it wasn't changed by the manager.
Nobody:
Hitler in Downfall (2004): 0:47
It was from Inglorious Basterds(?)
(I think its spelled that way in the title, though now that i typed it, it seems incorrect)
@@corvidconfidential8826 that scene is a parody of downfall.
TheCrossedEyedGamer nah bruh its a parody of this guy called Adolf hitler, he once said Nein or some shit, I can’t remember what else. Something to do with genocide, funny stuff, amirite?
Firstly I love your choice of valuables. Secondly this reminds me of R Feynman with the los Alamos safe. 🤗
Not to mention most hotel safes can be unlocked via the emergency password reset button inside the safe with a wire coat hanger or something similar. Most of those reset bottoms are a straight shot from the hinged side of the door leaving it the perfect way to unlock a locked safe
So that raises the moral question ... do you tell management. They either think you're a pain in the ass & humor you, or they fix the problem and appreciate you bringing it to their attention. It's a real ... CRAP SHOOT with people!
Don't tell the management they will arrest you for hacking their security equipment.
The hotel knows. Doesn’t care.
LPL I can't say I'm surprised. I understand Bosnian Bill's father-in-law has been having security issue's with his liqueur cabinet lately. Heard his latest loss has been a bottle of Lagavulin ... coincidence?
Concurring with +Nathan Fielure: guessing passwords you're not meant to have is computer trespass in most jurisdictions. If you want to notify, do it in a letter after you've left the premises, and in a way that doesn't admit that you actually used the administrative password. Being prosecuted in an innocuous case like this is unlikely, and a good lawyer can always make a case that the law shouldn't apply, but it's not worth the risk of admitting to breaking into a computer system and hoping the manager, owner, police and/or jury won't behave in a way that you find unreasonable.
PS: "It was easy to guess" is not a defense: it's the digital equivalent of saying "I was just seeing if his locks were hard to pick." You've heard it before: "don't pick locks you don't own." It applies to passwords too.
I'm pretty sure that it's okay to pick locks that you're renting, though.
Hey Lock Picking Lawyer, I found 2 related flaws with the Abus Bordo combination locks, I was hoping to tell you about them so you can look into them. Flaw one is that the false gates are easy to find but if you line up 4 false gates in a row it becomes obvious if you are in a non false gate. You can also feel the difference between false gates and the real gate, even without the last step this reduces the number of possible combinations from 10,000 to around 625. The second flaw is that you can use the location of the false gates to decode where the real gates are. There are three different patterns to decode, the first dial, both middle dials are the same, and the last dial. No matter the combination, the pattern of false gates is always the same it will be like "not, false, not, not, false, not, false, false, false, true," so if you can can initially find a false gate on each dial and about half the digits are false gates. As far as I know no one else has discovered these flaws though I'm sure anyone else who looks at these locks with a keen eye will be able to spot these flaws. Anyways, love your videos and hope to see one about this in the future.
bump
I’ll take a look at this... another lock on my list to buy!
WOW! This is one of the most important channels on RUclips.
Great PSA! Would be awesome to cover any other known common hotel safe vulnerabilities in a series.
I never trust any hotel safe. Now way. Nice info
Hotel.... what do you do for a fun.
LPL.. I open safes and locks.
Hotel... Ni vacancys.
Now way
_Did you mean:_ *Norway*
I work in a hotel and my GM is so lazy when it comes to helping guests and their safes. Thank you for the help!
I just tried this method at my hotel and it actually worked. Thank you so much!
In October of 2023, I was moving from southern California to the northeastern United States. Before my trip, I watched this video and decided that I would test this code at all of the rooms that had a safe in it. Literally every single hotel aside from one had the exact same override code that you shared here. I will absolutely never be trusting these safes again.
The simplest way to open these is with a neo magnet over the solenoid, less than 1 second it's open and no prints. This works with most electronic safes.
Saw your video on Reddit (it's getting a decent amount of upvotes).
Clear, concise, good video, good audio, easy to understand and to the point, no obnoxiously loud opener, no "LIKE AND SUB!!!!" 3 seconds into the video...in short, exactly how youtube videos should be.
So I came here to give you an upvote as well as watch the video w/o my adblocker on. I know it's only a copule cents, but hopefully others read this and do the same.
Thanks... here’s hoping for more people like you! 👍
Thanks for the advice, I stay in hotels that have these safes. I will try the super user next time and alert management if it is still the default.
Holy crap......I've used those for years. Thanks for the advise
Looking up the owners manual for various soda and vending machines may lead you to price changes and more. It's been many years since I last looked into it myself, but I recall some very interesting default codes from just pushing a specific sequence of buttons without a key.
Nah, I've seen those. They only go in and show you the sales reports. All the pricing is done in the control panel after you open up the lock as it is inside.
Thank you for sharing my hotel safe had low battery and did not lock correctly, I was able to use this trick and get back my expensive camera and wife’s Nintendo switch without calling maintenance.
Ah lagavulin, that beautiful smokey, peaty scotch.You’ve done a wonderful thing exposing that to viewers. Thank you.
legend says that LockPickingLawyer has even found the illusive Clitoris by tampering with the box!
Oh wow, that is really unsafe. Your whisky is in danger! Tell you what, why don't you send it to me for safe-keeping instead. Trust me, I'll keep it very closely guarded. LOL
I have a fireproof lockbox and inside of it is another fireproof safe.
Richard Feynmen pointed this out in his book, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmen.
Man i like how you're so mellow and kick ass on lock picking some could be a little longer but you pick some pretty fast i am very impressed thats why i subscribed to your channel
That is a great whiskey!!.
I always wondered how safe these safe's are...
(i store expensive divicng computers and passports in there..
Ty for clearing the safety issue
Lagavulin is one of my favorites - definitely valuable!
Interesting, I recently saw how you can use a medium sized neodymium magnet to open many electronic safes.
Only on a select few safes that are solenoid actuated... and most of those safes can also be open by banging it with a shoe... seriously.
Thanks for the information & that's too easy!
After Agent 86 failed to use his shoe to open the cheap safe that LPL opened with a magnet: "Missed it by THIS much, Chief!" (Technically, he would not have been able to so, because Smart used his shoe phone shoe!)
Traveling through South East Asia 2010, I tried to set the code in my hotel in Malaysia with my birth date (easy to remember and I always use it).
After many unsuccessful attempts, I called room service who then told me that code is what they use to open every safe in the hotel.
Thanks for this you saved me was about to lose my flight and hotel maintenance had no clue
It's good that you made sure that all the hotel staff and independent contractors who pass through an occupied room know how to get into those locked safes. We wouldn't want the contents of the safe to be secure.
Wow, literally just did this in the Comfort Suites in Murfreesboro TN. The super code was 000000.
I would reccomend you to delete this comment, just in case since, believe it or not, this is actually illegal, as a comment thread above has explained.
@@icecold1805 I can't find the thread you mentioned but it would be interesting to see. I've never heard of a law which would cover the sharing of a generic safe code.
Thank you for a down to earth video, that is useful, and got straight to the point.....
Without the usual bullshit, that fills most of them out.....
The admin password can only be changed once.
It can also be 000000 or 111111 depending on the vintage of the safe.
A sharp tap from a hammer on the top edge of the door will often cause the limit switches to make contact, causing the lock to re-adjust the bolts. they will return to the home or open position.
As a last resort, a small hole can be drilled on the side of the safe -- it is mild steel -- about one inch in from the front and about 2" down from the top. This will permit you to push on the bolt with a screwdriver.
Remember that a safe keeps honest people honest. It does not protect your valuables. Do not take expensive jewelry or other valuables on vacation with you. If you have something truly valuable, ask the hotel to lock it in a "bank" at the front desk. You are still at the mercy of hotel staff, but there is at least a certain liability for the hotel if you use the "bank."
hey it's the first LPL video that Carter from Delaware ever watched and that motivated him to send that neat wooden puzzle lock.
Had a similar experience way back when I was a young lad, set the safe code to “9111” (I wanted a Porsche 911 back then) but by pressing the lock key after previously locking the safe and then entering “1234” it unlocked. Same sort of system in that the master code had not been erased!
I love room safes. Because they work as a great distraction for me hiding my valuables somewhere else in the room.
Super good taste in whisky - that one is my favorite as well.
I love when I see one of your vids and it just make me go pffft.
Thank you for the information. If this happened, the guest would have to reprogram the superuser # to keep valuables somewhat safe.
This just worked. Thank you!
That's insane ,making sure to ask that's for sure lol. Thanks for the review brother
You missed an opportunity for a brilliant sight gag - when you opened the safe for the second time the bottle should have been empty!
Having been a jewel thief, arrested in Beverly Hills at the Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel in 1996, I can confirm.
I did not open any room safe in this manner, but they are not very well designed.
At the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, I opened one by removing it from its mounting, on particle board, and simply bounced it on the bed to cause the spring loaded locking mechanism to bounce out of place, and then turned the locking knob to open.
I did it this way, because the hotel had discovered my previous method, which was to simply move the plastic border around the locking mechanism and insert a piece of wire through the gap, and push on the back of the teeter-totter type locking pawl, which it kept in place with a spring on the back side.
They replaced the plastic with metal, but I had previously taken one of them and dismantled it.
When I saw how they had changed the plastic, I remembered how the locking system worked internally and realized I could bounce it open if I removed it from its mounting, which was poorly done.😏
I got into the rooms by making a core key to remove the IC core from any room and replacing it with one of my own. They did rekey them once, but I just made another.
This is all documented, as my trial was printed in the LA paper.
This video deserves a million billion views and you deserve ad revenue.
Hhaha....happen to be in a hotel I tried this and your 100% they did not reset it and I was able to open. Great video thank you for the vid!
Man I wish I had known this years ago when I locked...something...in one of these and fumbled the code I meant to enter.
Luckily if you put the wrong code in serval times it only locks you out for a few minutes and resets the timeout. It took a few hours but I finally got it opened.
LPL, have you ever looked at the Challenger safe from Hospitality Safe Corp? We use them at the hotel I work at, also our rooms use the Safloc door lock
Dang, I just got home today from staying in a hotel with a similar safe. Ill try that next time.
In my experience as a locksmith this is the case with pretty much every hotel safe. Including ones with random set master codes(they leave the sticker on). That said, these safes are not a form of security in any way. The hotel isn't going to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars per room for a safe for you to put your valuables into, these things cost about a hundred dollars a piece at most and the price point gives you an idea of the security level. Most can be opened with a rubber mallet, the rest with a small crowbar like a nail puller.
Wow, I'm gonna test all future safes I run into in my hotel room.
Epic. I'd change the default pass-code just to mess with them.
After watching this channel for a while, I consider locks nothing more than a very mild deterrent.
Lagavulin 16 is up there with Laphroaig 10 . Been to Lagavulin distillery just up the road from Laphroaig and just down the road from Ardbeg :)
That truly is an amazing whisky
It is.
What are you doing hanging around hotels and drinking anyway, and on a Sunday 😆
Thanks for the heads up. Stay safe LPL.
Awesome, it worked for my friend, thank you!!
Came here again after watching [1169] to refresh my memory. It occurs to me that the hotel wants to be able to access the safe if the guest forgets their password, or leaves with the safe locked. If there are 300 rooms in the hotel they are not about to reset the "super" password to their own number. Lazy? Yup. And if they did reset it they would probably be brilliant and use the room number as the new code.🤣
Hotel Mngr: "Great idea! Thanks friend!"
You need to do a follow-up video demonstrating how to set the default admin pin to something else! The rest of the hotel might not be safe, but that one would be.
I got way to exited after seeing a bottle of Lagavulin in the safe 😁. Great choice
It worked to get me back into my own safe!
What do you think about the Schlage touchscreen deadbolt?
I've often wondered who they're trying to protect things from. The staff? Most likely knows the master code
The managers probably do. The cleaning staff probably don't (or at least weren't told on purpose), at least if the place isn't entirely incompetent.
Can you personally reset the admin password before use if so how?
SpacerSpasm you can’t without ECU: www.kabalodgingsupport.com/media/886872/v4/File/installation-user-s-guide-in-room-safe-pk3537.pdf
It's videos liek this that make LPL great. Giving the public warning about potential problems with their safes.
"9-9-9-9-9-9! That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"
It's a default admin code. They are mostly all simple like that. You are supposed to change it once you installed the safe.
@@francischabot1412 it's a quote
@@francischabot1412 you need to watch more classic movies 😁
You heard about 0-0-0-0-0-0
It's reversible, just like my raincoat!
thank you my son was playing with the safe and locked my wallet in the safe and didn't know what buttons he pushed so i tried this and it worked So hotel safes are NOT SAFE!
Also, I’ve been able to hack open every hotel room I’ve been in with a safe. By shining a light on the buttons, I’ve been able to see oils from fingers on buttons. Sequence is easily deduced from amount of oil on buttons. First number in sequence has most oil, the next has less and so on. It has worked every time. I’m guessing maybe it’s because it’s the admin code entered by staff at check out/cleanup?? So wipe down your buttons after enter ring your own code. But that still doesn’t stop sticky fingered hotel staff.
That's how I broke into my ex bf cell phone. I kept looking at the oil smears on his screen for his swipe pattern.
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You sir just saved me an embarassing phone call!
I think its fitting that the safe says "nein nein nein nein nein nein" when lpl shows up.
LPL just demonstrating how much easier it is to pop that safe open than that bottle 🤯
Naff choice in safes. Excellent choice in single malt!
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I admire you. If you can open the car locks , bike locks and motor bike locks in less than 6 seconds like motorbike thieves do in Asia you are awesome. Otherwise you know it
I have seen him open wafer locks, which cars are, in 5-10 seconds, so yeah. There is a reason we have car alarms... The locks themselves can be opened by a Popsicle stick.
One of my favorite Scotches! You've got good taste...:-D
Great PSA LPL. Cheers!
Always read the directions when you buy a digital anything. My digital door locks came with individual administrator codes, but my digital safes all came with generic, universal codes. LIke Windows and most routers come with universal passwords that most people don't change. You expect more in a hotel.
LPL at a hotel: WHERE ARE YOUR LOCKS
Great advice. Thank you
I’ve never really understood hotel safes... maybe I stay in fancy places, but those hotel doors seem harder to break into than most room safes.... so that means you’re really only protecting the stuff from the staff, but that person also knows how to get that safe open anyway. Sooo, I just leave crap in my bag...
At least he locked up something of value.
I'm here after watching the wooden bottle lock video!