Touchless said:
I have no idea what they were searching for or if it's been mentioned in this thread, but simply for argumentative sake, what if the person being investigated has a child smuggling and sex trafficking ring and the safe may have contents to where kids are located and who else is involved or something?
Would there be any situation where you'd be okay with a company assisting the government in a situation like this when they have a warrant for a location and all of the contents there?
Totally subjective when they can get a warrant to open your safe for whatever the regime wants to get it for.... is it for possible kiddie porn (great!)? ...or could it just be for someone's guns because they're a political opponent of the regime and they might have said something online about demonstrating at the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021? Can you trust the government to draw a line somewhere in between and stick to it? Seems like "slippery slope" might be approp here.
How about the government, once they have a warrant for the contents of someone's safe and the owner is unable (already been
dispatched or not locatable) or refuses to open the safe, they have to use a locksmith with drills, tools, and techniques to open the safe, just like anyone else? Because if you're a safe company trying to sell safes, a safe isn't really safe if the government can just ask for a code and open it when they want to, regardless of who puts what in it.
of course, if you're currently a democrat and you worship your benevolent overlords in government and only wish to be governed harder because they only go after anti-communists and would never turn on you- ever- they're here to help, then yes, make all safes immediately openable at the government's beck and call.