How I Rob Banks

Chapter 63My Favorite Door

I want to share with you my favorite door. I know it's weird to have a favorite door, but this is mine. It's not a fancy door—believe me, I have seen some amazing ones, even nuclear bunker doors—but this is a door I found on a site that shocked me to my core.

Most people who know me would assume that my favorite door would be one that is super-secure. But in fact, my favorite door is the most insecure one I have ever seen.

Here it is.

 

You may look at this door and think it's pretty secure. I mean, it looks like it, doesn't it? You can see that it's shut, and it has a lock; and if you look really close, you can see that it has an alarm, too.

This door demonstrates that engineers, builders, installers, and even “security experts” don't always look at things the same way I do, I look at how to break in.

Let me guide you through what is wrong with this door. I promise it will make you look at doors differently; you might even impress someone with your new knowledge.

First up, the big sin: it's made of glass. This will come as no surprise to most of you, but glass has two properties that make it useless for security. First, it's see-through. That's how glass works; you can see through it. This is handy to attackers for many reasons; I could have written a chapter about the crazy things people have done with glass over the years in the misguided idea ...