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Thousands of national security measures foiled by a guy in a mercedes with a wheelbarrow and a postman - impressive.

by yummybear 8y ago

itronitron 8y ago
it would be interesting to know if and when they noticed it was missing
- dfox 8y ago
  Given my experience I would assume that when they noticed it was written off as an inventory tracking error (assuming the thieves haven't left conspiciosly open empty transport case on the site)
setquk 8y ago
I worked on a military site literally after the whole September 11th thing went down and everyone was super paranoid. Had armed police patrols and everything. At lunch we still cut through the same hole in the fence perimeter which had been there for about 4 years. This had been reported and not fixed and saved a good half a mile trip round the perimeter. If anyone got any good at security in these sorts of places they usually ended up doing something else better paid for a living.
kevin_nisbet 8y ago
Reminds me of reading one of my dads books in school, about the formation of the SAS during world war 2. It's been a long time since I read it, but it was something along the lines of certain military leaders doubted the ability of the SAS to sneak onto a base and plant bombs on airplanes. So they organized a test, where they would sneak onto one of their own bases and place stickers instead of bombs. The leader of the base was even given advance notice that this as going to happen. The SAS not only managed to sneak onto the base, they managed to place stickers on the planes so thoroughly some planes had 2 or 3 stickers on them, and iirc they were totally undetected. It was a thoroughly interesting read, and they did immense damage to the german army and air force in north africa, sometimes just driving jeeps onto bases and firing second hand machine guns originally for aircraft they managed to mount to their jeeps. After reading that book, and the success they had sneaking onto bases in the middle of a shooting war, even after the opposing army was dedicating themselves to preventing the damage, I wouldn't be surprised if much more equipment, plans, and intelligence hasn't been stolen off bases that we simply don't know about.
stcredzero 8y ago
a guy in a mercedes with a wheelbarrow and a postman There's the movie title right there.

Thousands of national security measures foiled by a guy in a mercedes with a wheelbarrow and a postman - impressive.

itronitron 8y ago

it would be interesting to know if and when they noticed it was missing

dfox 8y ago
Given my experience I would assume that when they noticed it was written off as an inventory tracking error (assuming the thieves haven't left conspiciosly open empty transport case on the site)

setquk 8y ago

I worked on a military site literally after the whole September 11th thing went down and everyone was super paranoid. Had armed police patrols and everything. At lunch we still cut through the same hole in the fence perimeter which had been there for about 4 years. This had been reported and not fixed and saved a good half a mile trip round the perimeter. If anyone got any good at security in these sorts of places they usually ended up doing something else better paid for a living.

kevin_nisbet 8y ago

Reminds me of reading one of my dads books in school, about the formation of the SAS during world war 2. It's been a long time since I read it, but it was something along the lines of certain military leaders doubted the ability of the SAS to sneak onto a base and plant bombs on airplanes. So they organized a test, where they would sneak onto one of their own bases and place stickers instead of bombs. The leader of the base was even given advance notice that this as going to happen. The SAS not only managed to sneak onto the base, they managed to place stickers on the planes so thoroughly some planes had 2 or 3 stickers on them, and iirc they were totally undetected. It was a thoroughly interesting read, and they did immense damage to the german army and air force in north africa, sometimes just driving jeeps onto bases and firing second hand machine guns originally for aircraft they managed to mount to their jeeps. After reading that book, and the success they had sneaking onto bases in the middle of a shooting war, even after the opposing army was dedicating themselves to preventing the damage, I wouldn't be surprised if much more equipment, plans, and intelligence hasn't been stolen off bases that we simply don't know about.

stcredzero 8y ago

a guy in a mercedes with a wheelbarrow and a postman There's the movie title right there.