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OriginalGriff18-Dec-14 1:59
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OriginalGriff18-Dec-14 2:29
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glennPattonPUB wrote:
locked by the same system as Porton Down

Not seen how they are secured, but if my experiences with other government run facilities is any guide, the doors are wedged open with a rolled up newspaper...

Harwell (the Atomic Energy Research place) regularly had people just walk in, thinking it was the Rutherford labs next door, or leave by just flashing a public library card. The armed security guards seems mostly concerned with preventing the theft of stationary...

A Large Bank in London had impressive access control to the banking computers. As a contractor, there to fix a modem problem, I had to be escorted through the building. Then my escort entered a large metal cylinder which rotated to trap him. His palm prints and password were checked, then the cylinder rotated to let him out the other side.
Then he opened the little wooden door beside it and let me in. Pointed me at the modems rack and buggered off to read the paper... D'Oh! | :doh:
Took me twenty minutes of searching to find him after I finished, and wanted to go.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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