Computer security is not an issue Clouseau has thought about much, I guess.
At the time of the brazen heist of $102 million in jewels from the Louvre last month, the password to the world-famous museum’s video surveillance system was simply “Louvre,” according to a museum employee with knowledge of the system.
Awesome. I wonder if the password to the vault at Fort Knox is “FORTKNOX”. Someone should try it.
They are trying so hard to come up with excuses for how this could have happened.
The Louvre director told French lawmakers, “The security system, as installed in the Apollo Gallery, worked perfectly. The question that arises is how to adapt this system to a new type of attack and modus operandi that we could not have foreseen.”
They could not have foreseen that a taxi driver, a delivery man, and garbage collector could have been so sophisticated to back a cherry picker up to an upstairs window and hack through with some power tools. It’s so crude and simple that no one could have imagined pulling it off!
The Louvre has to update its threat model, for sure.
Fort Knox’s threat model does not prioritize passphrase-based entry. Its security is almost entirely in its regularly-staffed personnel constantly patrolling the structure and making sure any time-consuming, noisy break-in attempts are foiled — even the fourth dynasty Egyptian pyramids had their king’s cult at the time. Without that personnel (presumably paid even during a shutdown), Fort Knox becomes a big hulking target.
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Not to mention those patrolling the repository are equipped with big guns and the authority to shoot them