Re:The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
by potatolicious on Friday March 13, 2009 @06:41PM
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Well, there are a few simple fixes that wouldn't have cost much at all but would've significantly improved the security of the vault:
1 - The magnetic plate sensors should NOT be accessible while the vault is closed. There is no reason why this should have been mounted outside the vault instead of inside.
2 - All sensors in the vault were tied to a single circuit . Shorting just two wires was enough to take every single sensor in the room offline. That's ridiculous.
3 - You shouldn't have a simple "break circuit if alarm tripped" design at all. You have a full-blown sensor package mounted on a wall in a secure vault, is it too much to ask that the sensor respond to pings? This is a fairly minimal cost (+$100 per sensor, maybe?) that would also make it impossible to short the sensor circuit or otherwise take a sensor offline without somebody realizing.
1 - The magnetic plate sensors should NOT be accessible while the vault is closed. There is no reason why this should have been mounted outside the vault instead of inside.
2 - All sensors in the vault were tied to a single circuit . Shorting just two wires was enough to take every single sensor in the room offline. That's ridiculous.
3 - You shouldn't have a simple "break circuit if alarm tripped" design at all. You have a full-blown sensor package mounted on a wall in a secure vault, is it too much to ask that the sensor respond to pings? This is a fairly minimal cost (+$100 per sensor, maybe?) that would also make it impossible to short the sensor circuit or otherwise take a sensor offline without somebody realizing.