I don't know if they used FedEx, but I'm guessing they did. I've been with them for over a decade and this is actually pretty extraordinary knowing how many resources they put toward security and surveillance.
Even if someone managed to get into a center undetected and had a way to get through the locked doors/gates/turnstiles without an RFID badge (they keep everything but bathrooms locked) how the hdo you find a single envelope without being detected?
I wonder if allowing the empty envelope continue down the road to eventually be found was a way of showing that this was done by powerful people, and that it didn't simply get lost in transit.
I guess it would depend on the size and whatever security protocols Express has - if that's the shipper. It also wouldn't surprise if things like backpacks get searched on the way out.
I'm not sure if Express uses this yet, but my branch of the company is beginning to use radio frequency tags on every handling unit so antennas at each center can pick up exactly where each item is in the warehouse.
From there we have devices that automatically recognize what we've picked up and tell us where to go with it. Removing a tag or leaving with one would alert an employee pretty quickly that something went wrong.
I've never been to an airport facility, but it seems a bit more plausible (but still farfetched) that it was taken there under the guise of some federal agency doing a routine check.
That's really all I can think of outside of our government being crazy enough to have personnel planted within shipping companies for just such an occasion. Or maybe it's as simple as them strong arming the shipper with "give it to us or else" threats.
It's also odd that this would happen given that there is almost certainly a backup copy on a hard drive somewhere, or maybe other physical copies of whatever this was.
It would be the height of stupidity to send original documents, just so Tucker could see them while he is out of town (if they even had originals?). At the very least, one would copy them first and KEEP copies. This story makes no sense at all.
So let me get this straight: You take the ONLY copy of some critical documents and let them leave your care--without first making a copy. Really?
In real estate, it's location, location, location. In sensitive information it's backup, backup, backup. You would think a clever Fox would know that. Hmmm...
I don't know if they used FedEx, but I'm guessing they did. I've been with them for over a decade and this is actually pretty extraordinary knowing how many resources they put toward security and surveillance.
ReplyDeleteEven if someone managed to get into a center undetected and had a way to get through the locked doors/gates/turnstiles without an RFID badge (they keep everything but bathrooms locked) how the hdo you find a single envelope without being detected?
I wonder if allowing the empty envelope continue down the road to eventually be found was a way of showing that this was done by powerful people, and that it didn't simply get lost in transit.
Yes, I am wondering about the envelope also. Is it possible walking out with it would be too conspicuous?
DeleteI guess it would depend on the size and whatever security protocols Express has - if that's the shipper. It also wouldn't surprise if things like backpacks get searched on the way out.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if Express uses this yet, but my branch of the company is beginning to use radio frequency tags on every handling unit so antennas at each center can pick up exactly where each item is in the warehouse.
From there we have devices that automatically recognize what we've picked up and tell us where to go with it. Removing a tag or leaving with one would alert an employee pretty quickly that something went wrong.
I've never been to an airport facility, but it seems a bit more plausible (but still farfetched) that it was taken there under the guise of some federal agency doing a routine check.
That's really all I can think of outside of our government being crazy enough to have personnel planted within shipping companies for just such an occasion. Or maybe it's as simple as them strong arming the shipper with "give it to us or else" threats.
It's also odd that this would happen given that there is almost certainly a backup copy on a hard drive somewhere, or maybe other physical copies of whatever this was.
Either way, really strange.
I hope we all live through this and someone makes a movie out of it.
ReplyDeleteIt would be the height of stupidity to send original documents, just so Tucker could see them while he is out of town (if they even had originals?). At the very least, one would copy them first and KEEP copies. This story makes no sense at all.
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight: You take the ONLY copy of some critical documents and let them leave your care--without first making a copy. Really?
ReplyDeleteIn real estate, it's location, location, location. In sensitive information it's backup, backup, backup. You would think a clever Fox would know that. Hmmm...
Sounds like BS. Don't forget...Tucker is still a member of the elite...
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