On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:53:31 GMT in Lrgch.1771$QC.1691@trnddc02 J Fortuna wrote:
I remember one time going to visit friends who lived in a secure highrise
that had a guard at the front desk and a door that required a key at the
back. We had never been there before, and so by mistake found ourselves at
the back door which was locked and noone there to open it. We thought we
would need to go around to the front, and it was a really large building
complex, so it would have taken us a while and we were reluctant to do so,
when we saw a teenager coming by. To this day, I do not know whether he
actually lived there and had a key and just wanted to show off, or whatnot.
He asked us whether we had a credit card or something like it, and when we
handed it to him, he opened the door to this "secure" highrise as quickly
and efficiently as if he had had a key (and he gave us back our card, so no,
this was not an ingenious scheme of steeling a credit card :-)

Yeah, had the same sort of thing at one employer. The manager responsible for
badge access to the datacenter was moved to someone that wasn't a very
responsive individual. We discovered that our ID badges worked just fine
to jimmy the lock to the datacenter.

The toughest lock I ever encountered was to the bathroom off of the cubicle
area of a largely vacant building. The previous folks there were polite
enough to lock the doors before they left and before the summer was out the
water had evaporated out of the traps. We finally popped two ceiling tiles
and dropped in to unlock it :-).
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Chris Dukes
elfick willg: you can't use dell to beat people, it wouldn't stand up
to the strain... much like attacking a tank with a wiffle bat