Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
I think London is rather more paranoid. I work in London and just on Monday I was stopped by police at Tower Hill tube station and searched for explosive paraphernalia as part of their programme of random searches. When I told people about this in the office, several others had stories about friends who had been detained or searched within the city for one reason or another.
Maybe I don't look like a tourist ;-) but this doesn't happen to me ... OK, so as a fat geek in shorts and a t-shirt I look "mostly harmless".
I don't believe that it would be as easy as you say for someone to open manholes, cut cables (very thick cables of glass and tough plastics), then run on to the next location. Certainly, in London, anything like this would be picked up on CCTV and the police would be rapidly dispatched to investigate.
Hmm. I have direct evidence (of my own eyes) to the contrary. No one cares. Luckily, in this case, those who had the manhole covers up were 'borrowing' some ducting from one side of the road to the other. Does anyone from the Goodge St. area recall ? I know the one person at least is on the mailing list :)
Yes, the single points of failure abound, but getting access to them for evil purposes is not as easy as it looks.
Until it happens. Peter