I don't know if they're still there, but in my commuting days there were toilets at Baker Street on the Metropolitan Line platform.
And there are plenty of places to get out of sight on the Tube - most emergency staircases don't have CCTV monitoring throughout. Why do you need to get out of sight anyway? You just rig your bombers' rucksac to mingle ingredients when it's inverted. Or use a briefcase. Or if you can find out exactly how and why Sony lithium batteries go bang, you could do it on demand. No one's going to query a spare battery in a laptop bag. You only need a couple of ounces of C4 to knock a hole in the side of a pressurised aircraft. Let's not forget that bombs actually _have_ been carried onto the Tube whereas none have been carried onto aircraft so far. I was in corporate IT for Barclays Bank when the "security issue" started. Prior to 1968, data centre security simply didn't exist - all doors were wide open. Two things locked the doors at Barclays - the Yound Liberals' campaign of civil disobedience aimed directly at Barclays because of our South African involvement, and the IRA from 1969. Previous to 1968, all data centres had large signs on them: "Barclays Bank Northampton Computer Centre", etc. They disappeared smartish. Then the doors arrived, and then the airlock doors. Most of the banks were rich enough to station carbon life forms at the doors, but swipe cards and similar made an appearance in the 1970s. IBM was one of the last companies to take the signs down and paid the price with a few bombs in Germany during the 1980s. I don't think any of them caused significant - if any - outages. Most UK corporate IT centres are like missile bunkers. You can still spot them easily enough - big industrial buildings with almost no parking spaces, no provision for goods in/out other than a single loading dock, and enough aircon plant for a small town. These days the threat's on the network, and the bearded nutter is sitting safe in some cave somewhere. He doesn't necessarily have to get to your system - he can also attack a system that your system trusts. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
