Thread by @cybergibbons

One of my favourite physical access jobs to a datacenter involved toilets.

Let me explain.

I needed to gain access from the less-secure side of a sub basement floor to the more-secure side.

General office space to data centre.

By studying the floor plans of the building, I could see what I ended up calling the "piss corridor" running along the back of the toilets.

With concealed cisterns, you can either make complex panels that fold out using latches, or you can have a tiny corridor along the back.

They'd opted for the piss corridor approach on this site.

And I could make the most of the piss corridor.

After gaining access to the insecure side, I entered the toilets.

Via the accessible cubicle, there was a concealed door into the piss corridor.

I opened it, walked along, minding my own business.

After *really* making sure there wasn't someone else in the other accessible cubicle, I let myself out.

And I'm in the toilets on the secure side, in the data centre.

This bypassed cylinder man-trap gates than included surrendering all digital devices.

And it was spotted on publicly accessible planning documents.

Not quite sure what the formal term is for a "piss corridor", but I've got "erotic tantric massage", "the driver offered him a banana" and "fragrant dripping liquids" into reports so it's not big thing.

DATACENTRE YOU FUCK

"It was this style of behaviour which our CIO said was the reason they wouldn’t want someone who tweets like you in our network."

I'd think I was making up my life if it wasn't for other people watching it happen, sometimes.