Popular Wall Safes:

B3100 Buddy Wall Safe

Honeywell 2070 .43 Cubic Foot Expandable Anti-Theft Wall Safe with Digital Lock

Digital Electronic Safe for Home or Business - 1000 Cubic-Inches Interior Space

The idea of a wall safe has been firmly rooted in most people’s minds for years now as an item that fits into the wall, with a dial on the front of it which turns and clicks into place where necessary to read the combination. The idea of a safecracker is firmly linked to this concept, where someone turns the dial around until they hear a click, and continues this method until they have found the digits required. It was this (relative) ease of breaking the code that caused a major change in the way safes work.

The electronic wall safe works by means of a Personal Identification Number system (PIN). Much like any ATM system, it requires the entry of a numerical code (usually four digits in length which should be just about impossible to guess. For this reason combinations like birth dates, wedding anniversaries and significant years should be avoided when picking a PIN. In order to make the number impossible to guess, it is important to keep changing it but keep it “irrelevant” – using dates that have some major significance will make it easy for people who know things about you to guess.

If you keep the PIN as something abstract, unconnected to any dates of immediate and obvious significance, there is a less than 1 in 1 million chance of anyone guessing it. Some would say if they can manage those odds, they deserve whatever is in the safe. Now, while that may be going a little bit far, you should keep in mind that making it harder to guess is what will make the safe worth what you paid.

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There are as many ways to crack safes as there are different ways to make them “uncrackable” – but if you want to make it impossible for anyone you don’t trust to get at the valuables that you keep within your home or business premises, then a biometric safe is as close as you will get to being completely safe from unforeseen resourceful criminals.

Biometric data is being used far and wide at the moment to differentiate between people for the purposes of security. ID cards and passports of the future are widely expected to contain an element of biometric data in order to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the holder of the documentation is the person whose details are on the  card.

Popular biometric wall safes are:-

Wall Vault - Biometric (Stainless Steel) (4.75"l x 16.5"w x 15.5"h)

New Biometric Wall Safe Fingerprint Safe Home Security Office

Securelogic Wall Vault - Biometric

While there are still issues to sort out as to whether that is a legal, and morally sound, method of using such data, using it in a way that protects the individual and their property from criminal intent is open to no such debate.

The advantage of using biometric data as a way of identifying people is simple. By using such data – most commonly a fingerprint – the individual is proving beyond all doubt that they are the person to whom the items in the safe belong, or at least are trusted enough by that person to give them access to the safe. This presents a major challenge, then, to even the most resourceful safe cracker. Working out a combination is one thing, but changing your fingerprint is still beyond even the best scientists.

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Everybody wants to keep their valuables safe. It goes without saying, of course – having spent money on items, you do not want just anybody to be able to lay their hands on them. Some items are even more sensitive than that. Personal effects like banking details and credit card statements can be used by identity fraudsters, so there are many things that you need to be protective over. One way of doing this is to install an in wall safe.

An in wall safe is useful to the person trying to keep their personal effects safe, because it can fit directly into the décor of their home without making itself obvious. Any safe can be a wise security investment, but one that is immediately visible may present a challenge that an enterprising burglar feels that they can take on. So an in wall safe, which can be completely imperceptible to the naked eye, works as a deterrent by hiuding the fact that there is anything to deter.

In wall safes can be installed fairly swiftly, and do not need to cost the earth. That is not to say that there will not be an initial and obvious outlay, but look at it this way – it is better to spend a little bit of money protecting your valuables than a lot of money putting right their disappearance.

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One of the most common ways of security protecting something is to give it a digital PIN or combination. Think about it – your card for the bank ATM has a PIN. Your cell phone, in all likelihood, asks for a PIN every time you switch it back on. Very often, channels on the TV that kids should not be watching are locked out with a PIN. Along with computer passwords, the Personal Identification Number is one thing that is always protected with almost insane secrecy.

If you use a PIN to protect anything in your possession, there are some basic rules to which you will absolutely need to stick. For example, you should never use the digits from your date of birth. If you were born, for example, on Christmas Day, using 2512 as your PIN is exactly what thieves will expect from you. As much as you may think it is a clever double bluff, remember that frequently the outcome of a double bluff is that the “bluffs” cancel one another out, leaving simply a very obvious answer.

Change your PIN regularly. Have some way of remembering it without writing it down, but crucially it should be something only you will be able to identify. A favored word rendered in digits corresponding to a telephone keypad is one possibility. The shirt numbers of two preferred sports players combined may also work for a four-digit PIN. Keeping the PIN safely in your mind and never writing it down lessens the chance of anyone happening upon it. Trying a clever way of noting it down in code is also a bad idea. There may be a tiny chance at best of anyone working it out, but if it lives inside your head and only there, there is NO chance.

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If you have items of sentimental or commercial value that you absolutely have to keep under lock and key, one excellent way of doing so is to purchase a wall safe. There are many different ways of keeping what is in a wall safe secure, and the reliability of these different ways is variable. Owning a wall safe is a popular manner of protecting your valuables because it allows you to keep the goods that you value most somewhere safe, where only you know their exact location and only you know how exactly to get to them.

One way of protecting the contents of a safe is with an electronic PIN code. A PIN is a user generated sequence of digits, and if they are chosen wisely they will be all but impossible to guess – in fact, the chances of guessing a four-digit PIN without having clues to it will be lower than one in a million. To make the chances even less it is worth regularly changing the code – taking care not to base it on anything obvious, as this will make it easier for people who know any of your details.

An electronic wall safe is as good a place as any to keep your valuables, but to make it as useful as possible for the purpose for which it was intended, you need to make sure you use it correctly. This means not writing the PIN down, not changing it to anything easily guessable, and not telling anybody anything about it.

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Sometimes keeping your valuables safe is such an important matter that you need to spend a bit of time and money on it. In such a situation, the wall safe is an ideal item as you can install one and then easily cover it up simply by hanging a painting over it (a bit of a Hollywood cliché, but it works!) or just moving another item in front of it. This allows you the peace of mind to know that your valuables are tucked away somewhere that may not even be seen by burglars, in a safe for which they will need to guess the combination.

Amsec have for some time been the holders of an enviable reputation for providing security solutions which fit exactly to their customers’ needs. Their range of wall safes are perfect for the customer who needs something that will be easy to install, hard to get into without the combination, and inconspicuous. Even if the thieves get around the issue of guessing the combination by instead sliding the safe out of the wall, they will be completely unable to drill into the safe from the outside due to the construction of its exterior.

It is a genuinely good idea to invest in a wall safe if you have valuables of a sentimental or commercial nature, as the number of opportunistic thefts that happen when an item is left out in the open is quite incredible. Why wait until after you have been burgled to put things right?

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