probably worked at home
Most PIR sensors seem to work on movement of heat, so guess they thought the banks security was based on home security systems.
It's a tip of the tinfoil hat today to the two Brazilian blaggers who attempted to do over a bank last Saturday while wrapped in aluminium foil. According to O Globo, the pair hoped a metallic cladding would screen them from alarm sensors as they forced their way into the branch of Banco do Brasil, in Praia Grande, São Paulo …
What they missed is that banks and similar outfits in addition to PIR, active IR (your fav stupid spy flick laser sensor) also employ ultrasound ones (similar to the ones used by car alarms). In fact, these are cheaper when covering large spaces like open plan offices.
While it is theoretically (and sometimes practically) possible to cheat any one of these sensors on its own, it is practically impossible to do this when they are used at the same time. A perfect PIR defence will trigger active IR or ultrasound or vice versa.
Except in Hollywood, where they use lasers that unaccountably allow gaps for a skilled acrobat to move between the beams! For some reason they don't use lasers in combination with motion sensors, but instead you face the lasers alone and then the ultrasonic motion sensors alone - never together because that wouldn't allow our hero/villain to get through!
I thought it was only hollywood where banks had security. ours was the classic PIR and the cameras were mostly fake, except one which would shoot about 100 rapid stills in a few seconds and then you had to send the drum away, waiting weeks for replacement, during which you had no camera if it went off by mistake, which it always did as the cleaners were too busy lugging their gear in most evenings to make a dash for the alarm panel in a timely fashion
I was even proud to be the only one that could remember our police abort code, but when a girl hit the under-the-table alarm switch instead of the under-the-table-button-to-let-me-in-behind-the-counter which was right beside it(!) and the police rang, she just said "false alarm sorry" and they hung up without even asking the abort code.
I can guarantee you these places are a lot less tooled up than you think
The other thing they missed was that the bank was streaming it's CCTV to an external control centre where people were actually watching it.
Other than doing the movie thing of hacking in and looping the footage, there's not really a way round that. (Except bribery I suppose, sometimes the people are the weak link)
in the linked article, we get
"He explained that he had paid 5 million rials (just under £290) to a wizard imposter, who in return gave hims spells to tie to his arm. The sorcerer told him that they would make him invisible, and that he could then rob banks to his heart’s content."
the bit that gets me here is "wizard imposter".
meaning that he still thinks "if i had just gone to a REAL wizard"....
meaning that he still thinks "if i had just gone to a REAL wizard"....
OFF TOPIC. I was passing through Glastonbury the other week and I was watching a street hawker selling his wares. "Top quality magical poetry" he would exclaim to all and sundry.
I was thinking: is there any other acceptable type?
"It is important to make use of the Faraday effect by plugging your tin foil hat into any nearby socket.
If out walking it would be wise to mount a 4KVA generator in a trolley so that you have your hat powered up while you walk."
Absolutely, grounding is a must. But for the same reason, what you need outside is not a generator, but a reliable earth connection - I recommend dragging along a large metal ball chained to a suitable ankle...
I wonder if you could fool cameras by strapping a large digital display over the head which shows the area around the wearer. An ever-changing version of the hat that mugger wore in The Fifth Element. I suppose it would take some work to figure out were the cameras were and what they expect to see...
It was so much easier.
You just walked into the bank wearing a large test card.
The CCTV operator thought the system was down for maintenance again ...
Nowadays you'd have to wear some high definition pr0n keep the security droid occupied.
No need for all this hi tech malarky.
Thanks - mine's the one in the plain brown carrier bag.
Social engineering FTW - figure out what _other_ objectives are monitored from the same room, pick an easily accessible one and dispatch a couple for some hot hanky-panky at the same time - then while all operators crowd around that one monitor, you may pop the safe unnoticed...