<div dir="auto"><div>I did see an article about the people arrested so far including a current or former security guard at the Louvre.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Admin leaves, change the passwords. Hmm. Must have missed that.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 7, 2025, 2:57 PM Ron via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Jim Kinney wrote on 2025-11-07 04:53:<br>
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> It appears so as there was no working video cameras in the theft<br>
> area at the time.<br>
There were no cameras at all in ⅓ of the rooms in the area:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo</a><br>
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Although *alarms* sounded, localized alarms were not functioning:<br>
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> Goulet told the BBC the gallery's localised alarm was recently broken,<br>
> and "we have to wait for the investigation in order to know if the<br>
> alarm was disactivated".<br>
><br>
> France's culture ministry said the museum's wider alarms did sound...<br>
<br>
No elite hacking of security cameras required; they just weren't <br>
plentiful, which was probably obvious to museum visitors scouting a <br>
potential theft.<br>
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<br>
I couldn't find any links mentioning a hack of any Louvre system, but <br>
would look at any someone provides.<br>
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