>Security related?

The security guards have gone on strike:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7018990085

That means it's probably easy to social engineer the police (who replaced the 
guards). The guards were presumably trained for weeks before hand against 
typical social engineering attempts as people (mostly reporters) try to get 
into inaccessible areas. Presumably, their replacements (the police) have not 
been trained for such things.

In general, a one-time event like a World Cup or an Olympics is going to have 
"one-time security". Normally, you expect an organization to grow big over 
time, and slowly adapt to a proper security posture based on past experience. A 
one-time even like this, though, has no past experience really. They are 
figuring out a lot of security for the first time. For example, I'm sure if you 
walked around with a wifi sniffer, you'd see lots of open access-points with 
access to "interesting" areas, like changing the contents of the large screens, 
or changing the score.


      
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