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The University of Waterloo Service Tunnels

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It all started with me reading Richard Feynman's book "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman". In this book Feynman mentions lock picking. So I thought I'd give it a try. Turns out some locks are actually quite easy to pick. So, very late one night, while living in residence at the University of Waterloo, some friends and I go around the basements in residence to see how many secret custodian nooks and crannies we can get into, when we stumble onto the 'big one': The University of Waterloo service tunnel network. We had heard rumors that such a thing actually existed, but this was the first time we knew for sure! It was so exciting! So forbidden! So dangerous! (well, it seemed that way to us at the time) Needless to say, we got the lock open! No doubt, many of these valves had not been adjusted in years, and it was tempting to make some adjustments to see what the effect on campus would be. We were however not quite that daring! This naturally gave rise to the next challenge: Mapping the e

The University of Waterloo Service Tunnels The University of Waterloo Service Tunnels How we got started It all started with me reading Richard Feynman's book "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman". In this book Feynman mentions lock picking. So I thought I'd give it a try. Turns out some locks are actually quite easy to pick. So, very late one night, while living in residence at the University of Waterloo, some friends and I go around the basements in residence to see how many secret custodian nooks and crannies we can get into, when we stumble onto the 'big one': The University of Waterloo serv

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