{"id":6890,"date":"2015-01-27T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2024-11-18T18:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T18:33:33","slug":"whats-inside-the-worlds-5-toughest-safes","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/whats-inside-the-worlds-5-toughest-safes\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Inside the World’s 5 Toughest Safes?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ask anybody who runs a small business, they’ll tell you the importance of a top notch security system.\n
High on the list will be a sturdy office safe.\n
Of course, some office safes are sturdier than others- and some are so impenetrable that they cost more to build than most businesses will earn in a lifetime.\n
Here are the security systems that your average start-up could never afford, but (hopefully) won’t ever need:\n
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It’s a clich\u00e9 for a reason.\n
It might have four foot thick walls, held together by 750 tons of reinforced steel, but breaking into Fort Knox is easy.\n
All you have to do get past four fences, two of which are electrified and fight your way past a team of armed guards.\n
Next up you’ll need work your way through a maze of locked doors until you get to the daddy: a vault door, weighing a whopping 22 tons.\n
Here, you’ll need the combination to the vault and for that you’ll need to find every member of Fort Knox staff, since each knows only a small section of the combination.\n
Nobody knows the whole thing.\n
Once inside, you’ll need to break into each of the smaller vaults hidden inside; then find some way of transporting your booty back out again.\n
Problem is, by this point, 30,000 soldiers from the Fort Knox military camp will be waiting for you outside.\n
So yeah, sarcasm aside, it’s pretty safe.\n
Fort Knox diligently guards 5,000 tons of gold bullion; which is enough to justify its labyrinthine network of security features.\n
It isn’t overkill… it’s just right.\n
Of course, not all world famous safes and vaults are built to look after gold bars.\n The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is buried 390 feet into the rock on the island of Spitsbergen, which sits a mere 620 miles from the North Pole and doesn’t get a lot of visitors.\n In addition to its standard security features, it’s protected by hundreds of miles of ocean and more than a few polar bears.\n Importantly, this secure facility isn’t only trying to protect the contents from intruders; it’s designed to withstand Armageddon.\nSvalbard Global Seed Vault\n
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Is it Safe?\n