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You don’t always need guns or masks to rob a bank - sometimes you don’t even have to be physically there. This happened in Sweden, only to be foiled by an alert bank employee.

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“This building is a top secret fortress. Locked inside it’s vault is 100 billion U.S. Dollars worth of solid gold. This is Fort Knox. Only once has the gold vault ever been filmed. It’s secured by over 10 000 soldiers and 300 tanks.”

Very interesting documentary about Fort Knox (officially known as United States Bullion Depository) and it’s history.

Watch entire 1h 26 minutes long documentary here.

31-year old french futures trader Jerome Kerviel is suspected of fraud and causing a 4,9 billion euro (7.1 bn USD) damage to France’s second largest bank, Société Générale. If these allegations are true, the losses at the bank would be the largest ever caused by an individual trader and over five times amount of losses caused by an infamous rogue trader Nick Leeson to Barings Bank in 1995.

Read more on here.

On December 18th, 2007 Steve Blank gave a presentation in Google campus about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies ( including CIA and NSA ) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises.

It’s part of Google Tech Talks serie, and has interesting anecdotes and facts about WW2 and SIGINT.

Entire 56 minutes long presentation can be watched here.