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A place to post product recalls. Recalls can be national or local, even just one store down the street. Nor are they limited to one country, if a product is declared unsafe by the government or the maker, share it here.

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More Than 60,000 Gun Safes Recalled After Parents Of 12-Year-Old Who Died Sue (www.huffpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's easy to blame the user in situations like this. The recall indicates that 39 other people have had the safe fail in the same way. It also states:

Consumers can believe they have properly programmed the biometric feature when in fact the safe remains in the default to open mode

The problem is, everyone can have a bad day. If a user has to be at the top of their game to use a consumer device, it's badly designed. For a safety device that's fucking horrific.

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?

The article doesn't state whether they did or didn't follow the instructions. They went through the effort of buying the safe, installing it, powering it, putting their guns in it, and then locking it. That suggests they probably did their best at configuring it.

Putting the onus on the consumer just makes it easy for shitty companies to keep building shitty products

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry, but this is a really stupid thing to say. A fingerprint scanner shouldn't work unless a fingerprint has explicitly been set up.