[ale] Password security

[Ron]

Jim Kinney wrote on 2025-11-07 04:53:

> It appears so as there was no working video cameras in the theft
> area at the time.
There were no cameras at all in ⅓ of the rooms in the area:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo


Although *alarms* sounded, localized alarms were not functioning:

 > Goulet told the BBC the gallery's localised alarm was recently broken,
 > and "we have to wait for the investigation in order to know if the
 > alarm was disactivated".
 >
 > France's culture ministry said the museum's wider alarms did sound...

No elite hacking of security cameras required; they just weren't 
plentiful, which was probably obvious to museum visitors scouting a 
potential theft.


I couldn't find any links mentioning a hack of any Louvre system, but 
would look at any someone provides.