There was a lot of that post 9/11 too. It used to be that you could walk into nearly any office building in the world with little more than a smile and a confident wave. A lot of previously public areas got locked down on September 12th.
Office building security changed significantly much earlier than 2001. The mass shooting in 1993 at 101 California Street in San Francisco was the beginning of many such changes.
The attack [...] also precipitated sweeping changes in downtown San Francisco. Before Ferri walked into the building that July day, almost no high-rises in the city had security measures. While many had a front desk, only a handful checked badges. The building at 101 California had two side entrances that were completely unguarded. The Examiner reported that at the time, the Chevron building and Charles Schwab’s SF headquarters had the toughest security in town; electronic badges were required at Chevron, an anomaly in 1993.
Today, security checks are standard at offices large and small, a fundamental shift that happened because of 101 California.
I mean, honestly if this didn't happen it likely would have happened by now anyway.
Enough people would have walked in and picked up computer systems filled with company information that security would have been implemented at some point.
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There was a lot of that post 9/11 too. It used to be that you could walk into nearly any office building in the world with little more than a smile and a confident wave. A lot of previously public areas got locked down on September 12th.
Office building security changed significantly much earlier than 2001. The mass shooting in 1993 at 101 California Street in San Francisco was the beginning of many such changes.
The attack [...] also precipitated sweeping changes in downtown San Francisco. Before Ferri walked into the building that July day, almost no high-rises in the city had security measures. While many had a front desk, only a handful checked badges. The building at 101 California had two side entrances that were completely unguarded. The Examiner reported that at the time, the Chevron building and Charles Schwab’s SF headquarters had the toughest security in town; electronic badges were required at Chevron, an anomaly in 1993.
Today, security checks are standard at offices large and small, a fundamental shift that happened because of 101 California.
https://www.police1.com/active-shooter/articles/101-californ...
I mean, honestly if this didn't happen it likely would have happened by now anyway.
Enough people would have walked in and picked up computer systems filled with company information that security would have been implemented at some point.