Eleven Silent Minutes: How a Battery Call Stole $250,000 in Research Materials
Eleven Silent Minutes: How a Battery Call Stole $250,000 in Research MaterialsA routine battery replacement turned into eleven silent minutes that cost a university nearly $250,000 in federally funded materials; the alarm panel logged nothing while the fire doors stood wide open. How did a prepaid phone, a remote caller, and a single adjustable delay buy enough time to empty a stockpile room without leaving obvious traces?In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events on a November morning in 2014, the roles of the people and systems involved, and the single procedural weakness that made…
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