oh yes... the same era that the high security, guards all-over-the-place cameras-everywhere security-doors-heavy-enough-to-take-limbs-off military equipment R&D company I worked for at the time, was broken into by the local scrotes for memory boards from the PCs... They just cut the fence, walked across the grass no-man's-land and jemmied a window...
They even had time to carry all the PCs from the office areas to each wing's lab areas to use the company's tools and anti-static mats... They did get disturbed in the end, and 1 guy caught due to a broken leg, after he forgot he wasn't on the ground floor.
Explaining the incident to the UK MoD was "interesting", as were the repercussions for the site.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
