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Title: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: Big Frank on February 27, 2024, 01:40:34 AM: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open;
CPSC Widens Recall to 120,000 More Safes Sold by 4 Manufacturers at Walmart, Amazon, and Bass Pro Shops;
Serious Risk of Death

https://www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC/Commissioner/Richard-Trumka/Statement/Biometric-Gunsafes-Malfunction-Allowing-Anyone-to-Open-CPSC-Widens-Recall-to-120000-More-Safes-Sold-by-4-Manufacturers-at-Walmart-Amazon-and-Bass-Pro-Shops-Serious-Risk-of-Death
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: billt on February 27, 2024, 02:46:46 AM: The more complex they make the technology, the greater the risk of malfunction. K.I.S.S. applies most everywhere.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: alfsauve on February 27, 2024, 09:30:55 AM: Plus if you’re the product manager which side will give you the least customer service calls? Err on the side of false negative or false positive?

Oh wait. What did you say? Just make the product work right all the time? Silly boy.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: Big Frank on February 29, 2024, 08:50:23 AM: Quote from: alfsauve on February 27, 2024, 09:30:55 AM
Plus if you’re the product manager which side will give you the least customer service calls? Err on the side of false negative or false positive?

Oh wait. What did you say? Just make the product work right all the time? Silly boy.

Are you kidding?
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on February 29, 2024, 09:45:23 AM: Quote from: Big Frank on February 29, 2024, 08:50:23 AM
Are you kidding?

Probably not. I am in the computer industry and I have seen salespeople talk about a known defect (bug) and call it a feature to sell the product.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: Rastus on February 29, 2024, 03:57:56 PM: Quote from: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on February 29, 2024, 09:45:23 AM
Probably not. I am in the computer industry and I have seen salespeople talk about a known defect (bug) and call it a feature to sell the product.

Gee. Sounds like Microsoft and Excel they rolled out several years ago. They were trying to entice the unwashed masses by making it "easy" and "intuitive"....it was a steaming POS. The first Excel I'd had since 1989 or so that had serious bugs in it.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: alfsauve on February 29, 2024, 04:53:01 PM: My old friend Clippy. I wonder how he's doing?
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: Rastus on February 29, 2024, 08:58:41 PM: Boy that was an aggravating piece of software.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: Big Frank on March 01, 2024, 05:44:34 AM: Clippy was way before my time with a computer, but I heard he was really annoying.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: alfsauve on March 01, 2024, 09:41:58 AM: It was annoying, but way ahead of his time when you look at all the autocorrect, auto insert, and AI now being deployed.
Title: Re: Biometric Gunsafes Malfunction, Allowing Anyone to Open
Post by: TAB on March 02, 2024, 03:12:37 AM: Quote from: Jim Kennedy-ar154me on February 29, 2024, 09:45:23 AM
Probably not. I am in the computer industry and I have seen salespeople talk about a known defect (bug) and call it a feature to sell the product.

Sounds like every one in tech I have ever met.

I have never trusted those safes.