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DescriptionWhat are the most interesting and/or coolest ways that a character could gain entry to a government building without permission? They could be physical ways (e.g. cutting open a window) or social ways (e.g. distracting the guards), or anything else you can think of. These do not have to be realistic, this is not a realistic film. However, these do have to be filmable with a modest budget, so no helicopters or anything that requires a lot of money. This task is closed. Shots pizza boy and the wallHe enters the building pretending to deliver pizza.
 ideaI have always liked the thief approach,for instance grappling hook from adjacent building, then rapelling down to the window of an empty office. How about he sets off the alarm on purpose, then enters the building while it goes off(ofc in another part of the building). Or he sets off the alarm multiple times, in response they get service crew to take alook. He lies in wait for the maintenance people and uses for instance the neuralring i suggested earlier to knock em out. Uses a special device to put his own pic on id card,then simply walks into the building. CommentsIt was some of the Middle Eastern countries. They are a bit anal about those things.
Americans also ran into the too high sensitivity problem. They got a supersensitive test for cocaine, and attempted to trace down banknotes that came in contact with cocaine, and track them back to dealers. Little did they know that virtually all money will test positive - rolled banknotes are used to snort the lines, and the contaminated notes, when stacked in the ATM machines, shed particles and contaminate other notes in the stack. Oops.
There was an episode of mythbusters about false positives on drug tests, and it was quite terrifying: just two small poppy-seed buns were enough to give them a positive result on heroin tests. And as they pointed out, if a potential employer does such a test on you, they probably won't tell you the result and you'll never know why you didn't get a job. There was also a case of someone who ate a poppy seed baguette at an airport, flew to a country with zero-tolerance for opiates and was subsequently jailed there. ...so drug tests aren't quite the magic bullet that certain people choose to believe they are. If the adversary has some detectors, you have two choices: try to not trip them, or flood them with false alarms. An example comes from several cities where the police decided to use sniffer dogs in public transportation to search for drugs. People, rightfully irked, took water pistols with bong water and sprayed it in the vehicles, filling dogs' noses with so much signal they were not reasonably able to detect true targets.
Similar approach, the other way, could be used to put somebody in hot water. A bit of bong water on a luggage whose owner couple hours later lands in e.g. USA or other place with drug dogs common at the airport, and he gets some guaranteed fun on arrival. Thomas, good ideas. I especially like the one about constantly tripping alarms until they're switched off. It's totally amazing that security guards would do something so stupid but also totally believable, and there's a timeless simplicity about that technique that would probably work on any security system. Another variant on the alarm trick is tripping it all the time so the adversary just switches it off. I heard about infiltration of an embassy. The embassy had vibration sensors on windows. The adversary kept occasionally throwing little rocks on the windows, which triggered the alarm and attracted guards. Who after couple days of multiple alarms per night got tired of it. THEN the embassy was infiltrated through a window. Yet another possibility is infiltrating the guards' comm lines. Take a transceiver tuned to the same frequency they use (assuming the most common situation that they don't use encrypted walkie-talkies), listen for a while to get used to their habits, then lure or instruct them to go out of your way. Basically hijack their communication to insert yourself into their OODA loop. "Or he sets off the alarm multiple times, in response they get service crew to take alook." Now that you mention it, I read about an Irish criminal who did something like that. He broke into an art gallery, hid, and waited for the owners to switch off the alarm before he actually stole the paintings. He then got away with art worth millions! (Unfortunately the art was so famous that he couldn't find any buyers...)  Hijack an authorityUse a Higher Power. Infiltrate or impersonate some sort of an authority that can force its access to the premises. Not exactly covert, though. A child porn raid targeting a specific employee's computer, or a blanket "audit" of all the machines in the facility for software licensing compliance, are just two of the many possibilities. The latter may also allow insertion of malware or listening devices in relative comfort. Other possibilities can involve an immigration raid, workplace safety inspection or other kind of compliance enforcement annoyance, or even just calling in a bomb threat and letting the bomb squad do our dirty work. The bomb threat may also serve a role if we want to "depopulate" a surveillance camera supervision center for a while. CommentsThat could definitely work in another plot but not in this film, as the main character is operating outside their home country. But I'm sure this kind of thing happens all the time in the real world. Use or create a catastrophical eventSchneier in "Beyond Fear" describes a bank robbery. A volcano erupted, covering a nearby city with ash. City got evacuated, then completely buried under ash. Shortly afterwards the enterpreneurs came, dug a hole through the ash into the bank, and removed the money. For gaining access to data or materials in a facility, a catastrophical event can be exploited (e.g. a flood) or staged (a fire). Data recovery from flooded or fire-damaged disk drives is commercially available. Access to a freshly burned-down or flooded facility may be made easier by the damage done to the security system, and the overall chaos of the situation. Comments...it's an interesting idea but perhaps a little extreme! :) Though of course if such a disaster was going to happen anyway, it could easily be exploited as you suggest. Get hired or contractedJanitors, security guards, computer technicians, copy machine repairmen, plumbers, electricians... and many many more have potential access even to sensitive areas. Few people will afterwards remember seeing anything else than a man in overalls with a stepladder or manipulating some infrastructure. Look like something normal, expected, easy to ignore. CommentsI love this idea too because it's also simple and timeless, it could work in any country in any century. Some guy, years ago, was stealing cameras in local subway. He came in, wearing blue workman overalls and carrying a stepladder. Climbed the stepladder, unmounted the camera, took the stepladder and the camera, and walked away. Lots of witnesses. All they remembered was just some worker; no closer description of appearance. Look like you belong there, wear an uniform that makes you fit some role/category people expect, and few will remember anything about you. "Uniform steals face." When I lived in London I remember reading about shoplifters wearing workmen's overalls (high-vis jackets etc) so they could hang around shops without looking suspicious. The shop workers just assumed they were meant to be hanging around.  Use lobbyingThe Spy commissions the "ImproVision" Company to organize a "power breakfast" to discuss the optimal application of "country originated social standards" in "factory boats" operating near EU countries.
Of course the Spy is "donating" the catering services, technical setup etc...
CommentsThat is a good idea indeed. In fact even Bond himself did that in You Only Live Twice, he got into the businessman villain's building by pretending to be a food distributor who wanted to negotiate a business deal. They even showed the meeting itself, very strange scene. Great idea! Especially since that could really work. And it could even be turned into a way to promote the movie or be used as a part of the production if done for real. Being a traceur!i.e. someone who practices parkour, the art of climbing, jumping... Like the yamakazi : This one is extreme, but I've seen teenagers in my city who able to climb on walls easily and to jump on roofs... I was quite impressed! CommentsNot a bad idea, you could always find a local group who practices parkour, I'm sure some of them wouldn't mind demonstrating their skills for free.  Testing every entrance.As crazy as it seems, there is usually always a door or window that is always open on buildings. Or simply entering the building through the front door and then inside the building testing doors and curridors to see where they lead.  hot babeA hot babe distracts the guards while our spy sneeks past. She asks for help with her underwear shopping. Takng out some to show them the problem. hotshot
Brings a newbie agent and asks for ideas to distract the guards. intern looks at building rubbing his chin" we could...-insert ridiculous idea here-.. in the meantime the older agent pours zippo gas on the back of newbie jacket.
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