[konceptz]

It must be hard, as an employee, to be asked to consider these types of actions at your job.

[swiley]

I'm pretty sure designing with the expectation that people might try to drive a truck/plane into the building is pretty normal for data center design. People have been aware of destructive people for a while.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I worked for a defense contractor in the early 1980s.

I think it was 1983, just after I started there, that an edict came down to "truck-proof" the building. If I remember, 1983 was when Hammas blew up the US embassy in Beirut with a truck bomb.

They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors.

[mywittyname]

> They put up those "anti-truck" columns in front of the doors.

Like a bollard? Or something much more substantive.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

> bollard?

I had to look it up.

Like "double-wide" bollards. Made of concrete, in the front, and planters in the back (much bigger).

[52-6F-62]

No doubt, but it's probably emotionally easier to work with that knowledge and attempt at foresight in the abstract, than how it would feel to receive a letter from your employer saying something akin to "brace yourselves".

[swiley]

This isn't a new threat? People literally do this all the time, you can probably find compilations of security footage of it on youtube.