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More of a gun cabinet really. If the lock doesn't work is it really safe?
It's not that the lock doesn't work, it's that they never set it up.
Lock should not default to "any print unlocks it until it's programmed." Like someone mentioned above, if you don't add a fingerprint to your phone, then fingerprint unlock is disabled. Otherwise, anyone could get into your phone if you didn't set up your fingerprint. And that's a PHONE, not a gun safe.
The manufacturer should have required the physical key to be present and the safe unlocked before you can program a code or fingerprint. This is how cheap ass Amazon combo locks work. While I feel the onus is almost entirely on the parents here, the manufacturer is at the very least negligent in its design.
So, the parents thought it magically came pre-programmed with their fingerprints from the factory and went; "hey, it works out of the box, how neat is that?!"
I'm sure they could've/should've taken higher quality idiots into account when making the thing, but is it really too much to ask of parents to read a manual and verify that a lock works as it should, when it is to keep firearms out of reach from your children?
I mean, yes? It’s insane to think that a fingerprint reader is designed, by default, to open from any fingerprint.
I don’t think it’s a stretch to believe that if you put your finger on a lock and it unlocks that you might believe it also programmed itself to use only that fingerprint.
Sorry, but this is a really stupid thing to say. A fingerprint scanner shouldn't work unless a fingerprint has explicitly been set up.