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It must be hard, as an employee, to be asked to consider these types of actions at your job.
by konceptz 6y ago
It must be hard, as an employee, to be asked to consider these types of actions at your job.
- swiley 6y agoI'm pretty sure designing with the expectation that people might try to drive a truck/plane into the building is pretty normal for data center design. People have been aware of destructive people for a while.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoI worked for a defense contractor in the early 1980s. I think it was 1983, just after I started there, that an edict came down to "truck-proof" the building. If I remember, 1983 was when Hammas blew up the US embassy in Beirut with a truck bomb. They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors.
- mywittyname 6y ago> They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors. Like a bollard? Or something much more substantive.
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago> bollard? I had to look it up. Like "double-wide" bollards. Made of concrete, in the front, and planters in the back (much bigger).
- 52-6F-62 6y agoNo doubt, but it's probably emotionally easier to work with that knowledge and attempt at foresight in the abstract, than how it would feel to receive a letter from your employer saying something akin to "brace yourselves".
- swiley 6y agoThis isn't a new threat? People literally do this all the time, you can probably find compilations of security footage of it on youtube.