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These are really just fire safes. They’re made to protect important documents from being destroyed in the amount of time it takes a fire truck to put your house fire out. The lock is mostly to keep kids or guests out.

The biggest security vulnerability in these “safes” is not the lock. It’s that a thief can simply pick it up and walk away with it.

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All this. I feel like people are not understanding that this is not meant to be a secure safe or even a deterrent. It is a home safe designed to keep valuables minimally safe from an average fire, with a side benefit of also preventing a toddler from swallowing your pearls. That's it.

Well, many people bolt their safe to their house. That adds some time for the thief to abscond with it. But I don't think "not meant to be secure anyway" is an excuse for "designed with a trivial security flaw." I mean, am I still supposed to trust what the manufacturer says about its fire resistance?

Most small desktop fire safes, like the one in this post, don’t have the provisions to do that unless you modify them.

These safes usually have a rating to be resistant to fire, but they usually lack any burglary-resistance ratings.

Burglary rated safes are expensive. They’re more expensive than the crap most homeowners want to put inside of their safe.

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