There's another section of the same book that describes ultrasonic motion detectors that work more or less like the ones in Cosmo's office.
All of the other details I can think of offhand make me think the filmmakers did their research at least enough to get to the level of "it's plausible that someone would sell a security product that worked this way even if no one actually did in 1992", but I work in information security, not physical security.
FWIW, I'm ordering Three Days of the Condor right now. Thanks for mentioning it.
Which parts are nonsense?
The details of the "man trap" (including the voiceprint) are straight out of a late-80s Computer Security book I found at a garage sale last month:
https://twitter.com/0x00C651E0/status/1521690225218490368/ph...
There's another section of the same book that describes ultrasonic motion detectors that work more or less like the ones in Cosmo's office.
All of the other details I can think of offhand make me think the filmmakers did their research at least enough to get to the level of "it's plausible that someone would sell a security product that worked this way even if no one actually did in 1992", but I work in information security, not physical security.
FWIW, I'm ordering Three Days of the Condor right now. Thanks for mentioning it.