This is mostly plastic. It can fairly easily be opened with a simply pry bar. Almost no thief is going to bother with a grinder or other slow and noisy tool for something like a glovebox.
OK, but does it take a long pry bar or will any small hand-length pry bar/ screwdriver do?
It is not a vault / safe.
Safes have fire ratings as to how many minutes it can protect contents. The rating also depends on the type of material the contents is make off (paper, plastic, mag tape, diskettes, usb drives, hard drives, etc).
So how long it takes thieves to get in with which commonly available & noiseless tools.
If you’re obsessed with locking down the sentry recordings
Glove box with pin is vast update for most.
Has nothing to do with obsession. What is point of recording it if they steal the recording too.
Like all the times I found new customers that did computer file backups but never tested the backup. After years of backing up files, they finally needed to use the latest backup & found it did not work. They had been doing it wrong for years and never had recorded what they really needed. Never tested their backup procedures.
It is professional best practice in security industry to have video storage at some distance away so thieves have harder time stealing your stuff AND the surveillance video storage. Slow them down.
Not all thieves are morons. There are thieves who look for the storage devices/media. Hopefully you can make it take a long enough time that some of them believe a search for the media is too risky.
If a standard screwdriver that most thieves might carry can be used to pop open the glove box in a second then the glove box is barely any better than the console.
If you’re obsessed with locking down the sentry recordings the pull the whole console out of the car, hack in the port behind the console, install the drive in the car innards where even you can’t get to it or say route it to somewhere you can but no one else would ever look, then put the console back. Some folks have done this and even documented on YouTube.
Glove box with pin is vast update for most.
Thieves have discussion networks too. Tesla's are getting pretty famous and Tesla have pretty different look so thieves will start to know that the sentry mode storage device is in the glove box.
Not going to hack physically on a $30K-$50K car. I do not have that kind of money. I think most customers will hesitate too.
Tesla should make an alternate location or mirror video to 2nd drive location in the frunk.
You have to make it easy for customers to do the right thing (best practices).
