Defeating Motion-Sensor Secured Doors with a Stick
An old trick, but a good story:
Everyone thought the doors were incredibly cool. Oh, and they were. Upon entering a secure area (that is, anywhere except the lobby), one simply waved his RFID-enabled access card across the sensor and the doors slid open almost instantly. When leaving an area, motion detectors automatically opened up the doors. The only thing that was missing was the cool “whoosh” noise and an access panel that could be shot with a phaser to permanently seal or, depending on the plot, automatically open the door. Despite that flaw, the doors just felt secure.
That is, until one of G.R.G.’s colleagues had an idea. He grabbed one of those bank-branded folding yardsticks from the freebie table and headed on over to one of the security doors. He slipped the yardstick right through where the sliding doors met and the motion detector promptly noticed the yardstick and opened the door. He had unfettered access to the entire building thanks to a free folding yardstick.
Joel Odom • December 15, 2006 7:28 AM
But he cheated!
In all seriousness, though, this reminds me of the episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns passes through about six levels of high tech security to get access to the main control room of the nuclear power plant, only to find that someone left the screen door to the room open and a stray dog had wandered in.