---------- From: sustae@intergate.ca[SMTP:sustae@intergate.ca] I wouldn't recommend boobytrapping the glass in that manner. I'd go with a ballistic laminate on the glass. [...] Ed

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At 02:51 PM 10/14/00 -0700, jim bell wrote:

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The solution is obvious, to a chemist. Make the glass door

double-glazed,

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sealed at the edges, and filled with hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid).

I agree with Ed - let us not confuse our goals with our means. The goal is to have a door which is transparent - it lets those in look out (and, perhaps only coincidentally) those outside look in. It also acts as a window, letting letting light into the house, and at night illuminating the door area from the inside. The goal is *not* to secure a door made out of glass. The goal is a transparent door. Go with Lexan. I often find stepping back and saying 'exactly what are we actually trying to acheive here?' is a powerful tool for solving problems. Its all too easy to try to add fixes to a bad solution, rather than find a different one. Peter Trei [Anyone remember the guy who proposed invasion proofing a home by boobytrapping it with biowarfare agents, and somehow immunizing your family against them?] [I've dropped coderpunks and cryptography from the cc: list, since this has gone *way* off-topic. - pt ]