I was given the password to the downstairs door on Friday. I came inside imagining that there would be other people up here. Alas. There was no one. I tried the downstairs password on the upstairs door. FAIL! (Mine, not the system's or the hackers that put it together.) I could not get in. In fact, I didn't even know the right URL to *get* in the door.

So I sat my bee-hind down on a couch in the common room, got on the wiki, looked up "door access", found the server name for the inside door access, and went there. It took me a few tries to figure out the password, but it was not a hard one.

The door lock is kinda sticky. You can get the right password on the right URL and hear the mechanism trying to do its thing, but the lock doesn't fully unlock. The trick is to push the door closed tighter while the lock turns. 

So, yup, I'm inside. Between bringing cookies and breaking into the space, I guess I should fill out the web form and start calling myself a real sudoer now. :p

How secure do we need these doors to be? If we have people in the space MOST of the time, then there is a lower need for security. With an often empty space, there's maybe more of a risk of theft, vandalism or other nastiness.

Security through obscurity is no security at all.

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