a piece of paper that says:
Combination for Master Safe: 10-32-47-23-16
let them waste time looking around for that while the police are in route.
either that or the pop up spring snakes-in-a-can style snakes…
It is best if you leave it in its original packaging, as soon as you take it out and use it, the value decreases significantly.
A book about guns? Kept hidden as to not scare visitors?
That’s why I hide my books inside of a sack of cash.
My question is kind of the reverse…There is some security in hiding things. But the lock doesn’t really add any security in this case. Anybody who finds this after looking through your books can simply steal the whole thing and open in noisy leisure later.
A note that reads, “Now you have fallen into my trap! Bwa ha ha ha haaaaaah!”
There is a sticky note next to our house alarm pad that says “94367”
Which is the alternate code that triggers the panic button.
Duh, obviously! No one would think to look for it there.
new answer: things they cannot unsee
Yeah, this is the height of dumb. Since it’s purely “security thru obscurity,” go buy a used book at a yard sale for 25 cents and carve out the innards. Done, and saved enough money for a sub and a beer.
Not bad.
They slam a screwdriver into it, spend 5 minutes ripping it apart.
And they get goatse’d.
Your disappointment in Boing Boing?
Same thing I hide everywhere else.
Booze.
How about a couple thousand pennies?
A whole shelf full of Jimmy Hoffa.
Actually having the lock does give it one good feature - it makes it significantly harder to inspect its contents without you knowing. If you have something secret in there (like a password) that you’d like to know if it was was compromised, having to break the lock to view it lets you know.
“Shakespearean English Dictionary” book safe, containing…
-“Old Norse Dictionary” book safe, containing…
–“Anglo-Saxon Dictionary” book safe, containing…
—“Latin Dictionary” book safe, containing…
----“Celtic Dictionary” book safe, containing…
-----the carved monolith of Newgrange, Ireland.
I want to change my answer to Schrodinger’s cat.
Books, all the way down?
My secret plans explaining how to become a god.
