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One time when working as a pentester, we were doing redteaming (read: breaking into target buildings, physically). Well, they were doing redteaming; I always wanted to, but never quite got the opportunity.

One of the ideas thrown around for achieving the objective was to somehow get ahold of an elevator key, stop it, and hide in there until the building closed.

I don't know if they actually did that, but it would've been hilarious to see them pop out like a scoobie doo villain and jack into an ethernet port while the janitor has no idea what's going on.




There’s a legendary defcon talk about elevators where the speaker describes doing exactly that on several occasions. Searching “Defcon Elevator” on YouTube should pull up the video in question.


“Somehow get an elevator key” is very easy - they’re all the same (at least the fireman’s are).




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