Re: The CIA knows how to defeat alarm systems

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 6:10:10 PM UTC-5, G. Morgan wrote:
> mleuck Wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:44:39 AM UTC-5, G. Morgan wrote:
> >> I'm watching something called "CIA Secrets" on Military Channel.
> >> Show is from 2008.  They have a guy in a lab with a Napco panel
> >> admitting he is trying to figure out what outside signal he can
> >> inject to render it useless.  Obviously, in the lab the one they
> >> showed was already compromised.  Seems they study every panel out
> >> there, and make sure they have a way to defeat it from the
> >> outside.
> >
> >I recall reading a spy book where the agent had a secret code for every panel out there (mid 90's era I think). It'd be a disaster if if was found to be true.
>
> I know the Baylor police have the same code they use for
> everything.  Fucking stupid.  They once had reason to believe it
> was compromised so we had to go to each system and reprogram a new
> code for them.
>
> They don't even tell the department heads about the code.  One day
> I was in a rare book vault (waterbug replacement) and the head of
> the department came in demanding how I could possibly gain entry.
> :-)  She called the campus PD and the officer had to talk her down
> for a good five minutes before her rage went away.  The PD already
> knew I was in the vault because I told them before I went in.  We
> just made a note to have the dispatcher call the lady if we were
> going in.
>
>
> BTW:  Using that Google interface you are emailing me and posting.
> I think you are hitting 'reply to author'.  Same with Jim and
> Nick.

Nope no Reply To Author is available, just reply. I'd get another real newsreader but since newsgroups are dying and I come here once a week it isn't worth it except for amusement with Jim