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I found out later it has a 15-20 min lockout feature if the wrong combo is put in repeatedly.
That seems like a decent security feature.
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I wish now I'd gotten the dial type lock because they are more reliable in the long run.
That was my thought as well, so the safe I bought has a mechanical dial lock. I like the fact that the electronic lock combo can be changed, though.
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I'm also worried about the lock holding up to an EMP event, should one ever happen in my lifetime. It is a very frustrating experience to be locked out of your own safe.
Yes, I also am concerned about this. Whether caused by terrorists or by massive solar flares, an EMP event is no joke. I have read that there was such an event back in the 1800s that disrupted the US telegraph system. Given that was a very old analog system that was not terribly susceptible to EMP, that must have been quite a pulse. Today, just about everything is digital, which is to say electronic. Because of that and the fact that today's digital devices operate with such low power levels, they will be terribly susceptible to any EMP event that comes along. Consider that virtually all vehicles built in the last 30 or so years are computer controlled. Same for radio and TV systems, sewer systems, water systems, gas pipeline systems, traffic monitoring systems, industrial production systems, patient monitoring systems and medication meters, and much else. An EMP event would knock out all of that and throw us back about 150 years into the past. Since our population can only be supported by modern technology and long distance supply systems, we would be looking at a human tragedy of heretofore unseen proportions.
If this subject interests you, read the William R. Forstchen novel,
One Second After sometime. It was, at the same time, one of the most fascinating and yet horrifying fiction novels I have ever read.
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Posted 08/22/2011 11:45 pm
