Re: A perfect marriage: vuvuzelas and soccer

[Robert Graham <robert_david_graham () yahoo com>]

> 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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