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http://www.thebunker.net/ -----Original Message----- From: Eric Kuhnke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy I recall reading, last year, about a "Cyber Bunker" outside London UK which is being offered as colo to major banks. The banks were raving praise about it. This facility is an ex-RAF centralized radar control site, buried dozens of feet underground w/ thick concrete and designed to withstand nuclear weapon overpressure. Blast doors, EMF shielding, dual-redundant air filtered generators, the works. The people who bought it and turned it into a colo neglected to mention one thing: It's in the middle of a farm field with a single homed fiber route to Telehouse Docklands. Anyone have a backhoe? *snip* DIVERSE ROUTES, people! At 05:30 PM 7/9/2003 +0100, you wrote: >[email protected] wrote: >> However we can work to spread out the infrastructure more so that it >> is harder for terrorists to find a single point of failure to attack. >> If they have to coordinate an attack on 3 or 4 locations, there is an >> increased probability that something will go wrong (as on 9/11) and >> one or more of their targets will escape total destruction. > >I hate to be a doom sayer, but any chump with a couple of tools and >rudimentary knowledge can lift manholes, cut cables and jump to another >location in minutes. No amount of diversity could defend against a concerted >attack like that unless you start installing very special low-level routes >away from street level into many many buildings. Maybe you guys in the US >are historically more paranoid, but London is just covered in single points >of major failure for telecoms. > >Protecting the switching centres (IP or voice) looks great, but walk a few >hundred feet and all senblence of physical security breaks. > >Peter
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