#2, "Persistent Porosity" - WGA never stops and it's full of holes.
I have to agree with you on being sick of it. Customers don't like it and don't understand it. While I understand it, I don't like it one lick - at least not as it has evolved. You read my own personal horror story with it and how much effort, time [wasted] and pure BS I went through on one of my own systems with it. I don't think there is a better way, either - so I can't offer any suggestions to any of our customers, and privately, I do worry: "What mix of events and simple, lawful use, will again one day, fire a WGA event that is not compatible with what I, or a customer is running?"
Like some bomb sitting out there, or a persistent flaw in one of a car's sub-systems and wondering "when" it's going to break next.
A couple of similar examples come to mind - recently, we added yet more layers of access control to our centers - over and above [get this] 24/7 color cams, IR emitters for night imagery, motion sensing, heat sensing, contact systems, biaxial locks, key pads, card readers and layers of concentric four hour doors, we added individually assigned keys/key pads to lower level access points and even the damn elevators - this on top of armed stationary and roaming security guards and some very dedicated police officers that all but live in our parking lots. Why? Well, we could see where people were trying to leverage lower level entry points, so we added the individual keys to further restrict access to upper level areas where production systems are located - lower levels house machinery, only - generators, etc..
The relevance is that like WGA, businesses seem to have to continually add new layers of protections to protect the interests of their customers and employees. It sucks, frankly, and opposite memories of a time when we didn't need locks of any kind, it is particularly maddening. [and we're in a really nice area!]
Another example: some years ago I liked to tune and wrench on old sports cars - one had this very weird clamping mechanism that held the down-pipe to the exhaust manifold - one never knew when these clamps, which were a nightmare to replace, would go out. Like WGA, I didn't/don't know when it will/would bite me, or a customer next.
Now, as nutty as all the layers of physical security are, we do have SOS and we have made it pretty simple on our staff and customers to gain access to entry control points where they can be escorted into interior spaces - the point is that WGA needs work and until that work is done, it needs to be suspended.... or we need to convince people to stop stealing.
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