A prison-break chuckle moment.

[argonsagas]

I had to chuckle while reading this article about someone's mom breaking into a prison.
The clipboard idea is one I have heard before. Security is very often not as good as people think it is.

There have been multiple times that I have entered places that were guarded, locked, fenced, or, in one case, all of those.

In that case the fully-fenced parking lot was guarded, and in order to get to the building you had to use a phone or ID to get through a locked gate to exit the parking lot. At the building there was a locked security door and, immediately inside the door, a screening guard at a desk

For me, it was a moment of what security? When I got there the lot guard was absent and the gate was open, so I just drove in and parked my car. .At the exit gate I did not have to speak to anyone or ID myself in any way: the gate was slightly ajar so I pushed it and it swung open. The building door was likewise easily opened and the inside desk was not manned. spI just walked into the building and wandered around for a bit to see if I could find the office where I was to have a meeting. ..
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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-hacker-s-mom-broke-into-a-prison-and-the-warden-s-computer

[LAB3]

Back when I was working as a land surveyor it became brutally obvious just how easy it is to get in a position to sabotage infrastructure such as water and other utility systems not to mention oil & gas production facilities. All you need to do is look and act like you belong there and nobody will think twice about your presence.

[argonsagas]

Back when I was working as a land surveyor it became brutally obvious just how easy it is to get in a position to sabotage infrastructure such as water and other utility systems not to mention oil & gas production facilities. All you need to do is look and act like you belong there and nobody will think twice about your presence.

That is what I have seen/experienced over many years as I sometimes found myself in places that were supposedly off-limits and/or impossible to reach.

During the cold war my now-ex) wife and I were on a honeymoon in Hawaii and we were invited by a sailor who we just met to visit his ship.

We met the captain as we went up the gangplank .and we were allowed on to view the immediate deck area, as were other visitors.
It was quite different for us, as the sailor gave us a guided tour of about 90 minutes taking us us to every part of the ship that he knew., from mess halls to the control room and the upper deck where, while he told us much of what we were seeing was top secret. I asked for an example and he replied: "Oh, you're leaning one"
I had ,my hand on the nose of a Tomcat....We had just been given a totally off-limits tour of America's flagship carrier. USS Enterprise.

[Peppermint Patti]

Being a former Correctional Officer at the old Joliet (IL)
State Penn was a REAL learning experience! In my book, "Peppermint Patti - Ballad of a Female Motorcycle Dragracer", I explain how I accidently discovered the Warden was dirty. Lol. The security there was tight though. After all, it was a Major Correctional Facility.