Life imitates art

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/4739324.stm
 
Family abducted before £25m raid 
        
More than £25m in cash has been stolen from a depot in Kent after its
security manager and his family were kidnapped by armed robbers posing as
police. 

He was in his silver Nissan Almera on the northbound carriageway of the
A249, just past the Three Squirrels public house near Stockbury, when he was
pulled over by what he believed was a police vehicle. He was spoken to by a
passenger wearing a high visibility jacket and a police-style hat. Thinking
they were genuine police officers, he got into the kidnappers' vehicle where
he was handcuffed. 

At the same time, the man's wife and young son were taken from their home in
Herne Bay after two men claiming to be police officers said he had been
involved in an accident. 

The depot manager was transferred to a white van, tied up at gunpoint, and
then driven to another location where he was told to co-operate or his
family would be in danger.

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http://firewallmovie.warnerbros.com/ 

Firewall, The movie

Computer security specialist Jack Stanfield (HARRISON FORD) works for the
Seattle-based Landrock Pacific Bank. A trusted top-ranking executive, he has
built his career and reputation on designing the most effective anti-theft
computer systems in the industry, protecting the bank’s financial holdings
from the constant threat of increasingly sophisticated internet hackers with
his complex network of tracers, access codes and firewalls.

But there’s a vulnerability in Jack’s system that he has not accounted for:
himself. It’s a vulnerability that one very ruthless and resourceful thief
is poised to exploit.

Leading a tight team of mercenary accomplices, he seizes control of the
Stanfield house, making Beth and the kids terrified hostages in their own
home and Jack his unwilling pawn in a scheme to steal $100 million from the
Landrock Pacific Bank. 


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