[ale] Password security

[Jim Kinney]

I did see an article about the people arrested so far including a current
or former security guard at the Louvre.

Admin leaves, change the passwords. Hmm. Must have missed that.

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On Fri, Nov 7, 2025, 2:57 PM Ron via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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