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The truth about hotel safes

Think your passports are safe? Think again. - by Laura Barry
  • 02 Sep 2019
The truth about hotel safes

As any avid traveller will tell you, it is unwise to carry your passport on your person at all times. It puts that precious document at risk of being lost, stolen or damaged. For most people, the next safest place to keep money, passports and other valuables, is the hotel safe. However, an eye-opening Youtube video has gone viral and proved that hotel safes are not, in fact, safe.

Most hotel safes allow guests to set their own code on the safe. However, the video posted by Youtube user Lock Picking Lawyer, clearly shows that any secret code can be overridden by a codebreaker number – that’s a number that hotel employees use to get into safes should the guest forget their own code.

[603] Saflok Hotel Safe Override

In the video, the person sets a code, check that it is locked, tries to open with an incorrect code – which doesn’t work – to prove that the safe is locked. The person then enters the code 999999 and the door springs open!

Apparently this number and 0000 is often used by safe companies as code breaking numbers,

The next time you decide to leave laptops, passports or jewellery in a hotel safe, it might be wise to check if the usual code breaking numbers work on your safe before leaving your belongings unattended.

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Laura Barry
Laura Barry
Laura Barry is a writer, bookworm and interior design enthusiast with a love for reporting on all things homes, travel and lifestyle. When not tapping away at her keyboard, Laura can be found making endless cups of tea or perusing the shelves of Sydney’s many bookstores.

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