[HN Gopher] Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed ... ___________________________________________________________________ Stolen Picasso and Mondrian paintings found stashed in a ravine in Greece Author : prismatic Score : 101 points Date : 2021-07-06 03:51 UTC (19 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | Dah00n wrote: | FYI this is a week old. | | https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/stolen-picasso-mondria... | shadilay wrote: | > The Caccia sketch was damaged during the robbery and discarded, | the suspect told the police. | | The real crime. | | Works being stolen usually adds to their value. | BurningFrog wrote: | Really? | | That means some of these heists are staged! | klyrs wrote: | > He took the metro into town, changed clothes in a park next to | the gallery and waited until the museum's 9 p.m. closing time, | before finding a balcony with unsecured doors. When he moved a | door and a beep sounded, he said, he reconsidered his course of | action ... "That's when I decided that annoying the security | guard was the best way to do the theft, by making him believe | that there was a technical problem in the alarm zones," the | suspect told the police. So he opened and closed the door several | times to confuse the guards. | | This is a great hack, applicable to probably most human security. | Can it apply to computer security? Well, if you've ever been | inclined to silence an alarm you can't diagnose... | alexpetralia wrote: | There must be some infosec term for this, but I'd imagine it's | close to "signal poisoning" - turning signal into noise. | chapium wrote: | Alarm fatigue. | vl wrote: | Or he is well-versed in classics - this is exactly what happens | in "How to Steal a Million" with Audrey Hepburn and Peter | O'Toole. | hirundo wrote: | I think the thief does deserve leniency. He had nothing to gain | by turning himself in other than guilt relief, and a lot to lose. | Much respect. Prison time still seems appropriate, but a lot less | than otherwise. | fumblebee wrote: | Maybe, hopefully. But this paragraph suggests that he thought | the police were onto him before he turned himself in. | | > According to the news reports, the suspect said he had moved | the paintings there in May after reading that the police might | be onto him. | av3csr wrote: | A small follow-up on that destroyed sketch by Caccia | | https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1163872/the-mystery-of-... | neonate wrote: | https://archive.is/Qx5Lz | axiosgunnar wrote: | Thank you | haunter wrote: | And they let the Picasso painting drop on the floor lol | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfmFsNec24 | scudd wrote: | Puts it back in the exact same position too | happytoexplain wrote: | It's frankly hard to imagine somebody putting _a Picasso_ in | that position. Look at the height of the painting! Look at how | low the wall it 's resting on is! Look at the surface it's | sitting on! How is it that nobody there has their intuitive | every-day-physics alarms going off?? | jbuhbjlnjbn wrote: | Sometimes, you need to be honest even if harsh - the people | putting a picasso painting on that space to fall off are | incompetent fools who should never touch expensive art in the | first place... | heavenlyblue wrote: | How much of your salary are you willing to sacrifice in | order for police to be able to afford such competent | smarts? | subroutine wrote: | $3.50 | chmod775 wrote: | "Local man surprised police officer who makes $15.50 an | hour lacks qualifications to handle $100m artwork." | | Who cares. It's just a piece canvas that derives its value | from provenance, not condition. | swader999 wrote: | And touching it with their bare hands getting finger prints | on the canvas. | Nition wrote: | What really got me is how immediately after it fell, they put | it back exactly the same. | axiosgunnar wrote: | That's hilarious | watertom wrote: | He would have been better off framing them and hanging them on | the wall, nobody would believe that that construction worker had | the stolen originals on his wall. The other benefit is that he | would have been able to enjoy the art. | adolph wrote: | This EconTalk podcast episode is an interview with an author of a | book about the "Art Loss Register," a private registry for stolen | works of art. The economic aspects of provenance and trust are | likely interesting to folks interested in blockchain | applications. | | https://www.econtalk.org/anja-shortland-on-lost-art/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-06 23:00 UTC)