In article , steve@walker-
family.me.uk says...

I worked for a company in 1997/8 where some of the staff were involved
in the maintenence of security doors in Ashworth High Security Hospital.
It took them ages to get in and out, they were only allowed to take a
bare minimum of cutting tools in and if they needed something different
or broke one, they had to pack everything up and take the long trip out
and back in again.

If they weren't finished on time, they had to stay and finish for
security reasons. If they were still there after a certain time, they
had to stay locked in for the night!


When I worked on the Stock Exchange cable TV system in the
early 70s, on a couple of occasions I had to do some work on
the distribution system in the bowels of the Bank of England.

I had an escort, naturally, but if I'd known where I wanted to
go, I could have gone there without him as there were no
security barriers!

That was the basis of their security - make it easy for you
penetrate the system as deeply as you like - but make it
impossible for you to get out again! Obviously, the further
you went, the more barriers there were between you and the
outside world!

One thing I particularly remember is walking past an open
doorway and seeing a fork lift truck in the room beyond moving
gold ingots around. This was, of course, in the days before
the Imprudent Gorgon flogged them off at a bargain basement
price.

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Terry

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