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> He took the metro into town, changed clothes in a park next to the gallery and waited until the museum’s 9 p.m. closing time, before finding a balcony with unsecured doors. When he moved a door and a beep sounded, he said, he reconsidered his course of action ... "That's when I decided that annoying the security guard was the best way to do the theft, by making him believe that there was a technical problem in the alarm zones," the suspect told the police. So he opened and closed the door several times to confuse the guards.

This is a great hack, applicable to probably most human security. Can it apply to computer security? Well, if you've ever been inclined to silence an alarm you can't diagnose...

parent klyrs 5 years ago

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