Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyber reasons Malicious Life. What are the most valuable things you could own? Precious jewels, one of a kind sports cars or memorabilia.

How about artworks? Rare and popular art is worth far far more than its weight in gold or paper money.

The most expensive sale of a painting, the Vinci's Salvatore Mundi, was for 450 million dollars five years ago.

And Salvatore Mundi isn't Da Vinci's most famous or even his second most famous piece.

You could only guess how much the Mona Lisa would go for.

Because art is so expensive, some museums employ serious security protocols to keep them protected,

as much as in the Hollywood movies, if not more. Of course, there are guards in every room, doors and windows are always

fitted with alarms and motion sensors paint invisible laser patterns across

gallery rooms. But motion is just one kind of way to sense

malicious behavior. A 2000 New York Times article highlighted museums with quote

infrared sensors that monitor a room's temperature and can see the shapes of

warm bodies moving through it.

Ultrasonic sensors that trigger an alarm if their sound waves strike a foreign object,

microwave sensors that work on the same principle, but can be hidden within walls.

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Acoustic sensors attach to display cases can pick up when glass is being cut.

Sensors, like low jacks, devices originally designed for tracing stolen vehicles can be placed onto

artworks themselves if they're not too delicate. Otherwise cameras can be

trained on specific works 24-7 raising an alarm if the image in the frame moves even one bit.

That's in addition to the dozens or hundreds of other CCTV cameras stationed around any museum all under watch from a control center.

These measures prevent thieves from stealing art and for special insider threats, quote,

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