, The Register 2004-06-17
It may not be daring as the attempted heist of the Millennium Star diamond from the Millennium Dome - an audacious Sweeney-style blag involving JCB, speedboat and nail gun - but at least the wags who lifted two PCs from Asia Securitex 2004 in Hong Kong appear to have got away with it.
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"If you can't expect good security here, where can you expect it?"
is "anywhere except a trade show!". Trade shows, almost by definition, are going to have lousy security. You put a random bunch of vendors in a strange facility, unprepared by them and with features they are not familiar with and cannot control. You let in thousands of random strangers (sometimes on the strength of a letterhead, sometimes on the strength of twenty bucks) and let them mill about fondling the merchandise. They're run by sales droids, who know nothing about security and *want* the random strangers to fondle the merchandise in the generic, unsecured premises. The fact that stuff gets stolen (at nearly *every* trade show) is no big surprise, and the fact some products are security oriented doesn't make much difference.
What was much funnier was the time a couple of "middle eastern looking" guys walked into the high security intelligence centre of Sydney Airport and stole two *mainframe* computers loaded with secret intelligence on terrorists and drug traffickers:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/04/1062548967124.html
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