Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try

Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by thetrainfold on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:18AM (#20293414)

"he noted that some combination locks allow for wiggle-room and if this one had a three-digit leeway, Mr Rosenthal put the chances at 1 in 8,000, "which is still a small chance"."

If this is the case, and there have been museum visitors having a go at opening the safe each day... this becomes a non story, right?

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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by bArray on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:32AM (#20293479)

Humans are terrible at picking random numbers, it's quite likely many people tried the same thing (more or less).

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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by jopsen on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:47AM (#20293559)

But if the code was set by humans, it just makes finding it even more likely...

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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by bArray on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:03AM (#20304367)

Only if somebody uses a human generated number (as done in this case). If it's genuinely random then it could take humans quite a while.

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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by Theodores on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:22AM (#20293753)

That museum is lucky to get visitors on some days.

It is only open from 1pm to 5pm, May to September, week days only.

Compare with Disneyland for footfall.

A volunteer could have had the time whilst waiting for visitors to give it a go though.

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Re:Tourist's lucky guess cracks safe code on first try by invalidusernam3 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:21AM (#20293747)

Also I would assume most people would try more than once.

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