My office is so hardcore about security that there's a whole department for it. They run fire drills and give presentations about terrorist attacks. The problem is, our security is so bad. It's pretty easy to get into the building. It starts with our low quality building IDs that consist of terrible webcam photos of the employee. It's so lo-res that there are enough distortions to cause a negative identification. The other thing is the guards don't really look. I have my ID in a removable sleeve in my wallet. On the opposite side of that sleeve is my driver's license. One day, I accidentally placed it in my wallet the wrong way. I didn't notice it for about 3 weeks. So for that period of time, I was flashing my driver's license instead of my building ID and security was letting me in. The building ID is mostly black & gold while my driver's license is pink, white & light blue. They look nothing alike! I did another test just for fun. Since the quality of my building ID is so poor, I wanted to use a more updated photo of myself. So I scanned the ID, pasted a better photo over the lo-res one and I also changed my name to "McLovin." I then inserted the fake ID over the real one in my wallet and have been using it for about 2 weeks now.
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I would put this down to incentives. It seems building owners/employers have an interest in providing the perception of security (maybe to cover themselves for legal or insurance purposes).
But perhaps they don't think that providing actual security (which would include testing it) is either necessary or cost-effective.
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