The World's Biggest Diamond Heist (2009)

http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diamonds?currentPage=all

by dsr12 • 12 years ago

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jdong• 12 years ago

And a few months after the release of that article, the guy gets caught with large amounts of rough diamonds in his possession.

http://www.wired.com/2009/07/organizer-of-worlds-biggest-dia...

Sadly I was unable to find out what happened after that.

veb2• 12 years ago

I bet they were probably purchased legitimately to mess with the authorities. He sounds like he was testing them, to see what would happen. Reminds me so much of penetration testing!

veb2• 12 years ago

Fantastic reading. Felt like a screenplay for a movie though.

A lesson here is if you smell women's hair spray in your vault, there's a chance someone is going to break in. Seriously though:

It was a simple but effective hack: The oily film would temporarily insulate the sensor from fluctuations in the room's temperature, and the alarm went off only if it sensed both heat and motion.

That is a real hack?! I love it. Does anyone know of a place where one can read about things like this? Genuinely interested. Don't worry, I'm not thinking of stealing any diamonds anytime soon!

kbart• 12 years ago

No wonder they got robbed with the vault security of something you could assemble with items from your local hardware store over a weekend. Removable magnetic plates, key in the closet, primitive sensors, no live guards -- sounds like a bad movie plot. If such security practices are the norm, I'm actually shocked that so few vault robberies happen.

The World's Biggest Diamond Heist (2009)

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