[ale] Google office doors hack

Justin Goldberg justgold79 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 07:07:35 EDT 2018


I worked in the Atlanta *Google* data center. So many more tales I could
tell, but alas, NDA


Justin Goldberg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinpaulgoldberg



On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 3:03 PM Justin Goldberg <justgold79 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I worked in the Atlanta data center. The doors were often in maintenance.
> Once a guy got stuck in a secured area and needed to go to the restroom and
> security would not let him out. And the security staff was mad that he
> reported them for it!
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Justin Goldberg
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinpaulgoldberg
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 10:52 AM Simba via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> All security is technology. Where do you draw the line, computers?
>>
>> I don't trust computers to be reliable, but that's not limited to
>> security. But I trust my firearm not to jam when fired.
>>
>> Are computers inherently less reliable? or is the manufacturing and QA
>> process inferior? I'm thinking maybe a combination of both.
>>
>>
>> Simba Lion - https://tailpuff.net
>> https://keybase.io/simbalion
>>
>> "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
>> On 9/4/18 10:10 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> > For me, the most interesting part of the story was that David Tomaschik
>> > was an ALE member for many years while at KSU and gave a number of
>> > presentations to ALE-NW.
>> >
>> > He's still active, when in town, with the local DC404 group.
>> >
>> > As for computerized doors, I wouldn't trust them for many reasons, but
>> > I'm not very trusting of most technology when it comes to security.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 09/03/2018 10:54 AM, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
>> >> Saw this
>> >> today:
>> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/09/03/1335217/googles-doors-hacked-wide-open-by-own-employee?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
>> >>
>> >>
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