> To their great dismay, the engineer in Australia could not open the safe because the combination was stored in the now-offline password manager.

Classic.

In my first job I worked on ATM software, and we had a big basement room full of ATMs for test purposes. The part the money is stored in is a modified safe, usually with a traditional dial lock. On the inside of one of them I saw the instructions on how to change the combination. The final instruction was: "Write down the combination and store it safely", then printed in bold: "Not inside the safe!"

> It took an additional hour for the team to realize that the green light on the smart card reader did not, in fact, indicate that the card had been inserted correctly. When the engineers flipped the card over, the service restarted and the outage ended.

awesome !

That's a wonderful read, thanks for that.

It only worked for Wick because he is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will.

This is the way.

There is a video from the lock pick lawyer where he receives a padlock in the mail with so much tape that it takes him whole minutes to unpack.

Concrete is nice, other options are piles of soil or brick in front of the door. There probably is a sweet spot where enough concrete slows down an excavator and enough bricks mixed in the soil slows down the shovel. Extra points if there is no place nearby to dump the rubble.

my across the street neighbor had some expensive bikes stolen this way. The thieves just cut a hole in the side of their garage from the alley, security cameras were facing the driveway and with nothing on the alley side. We (the neighborhood) think they were targeted specifically for the bikes as nothing else was stolen and your average crack head isn't going to make that level of effort.