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Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Mon Nov 03 14:05:49 2003

Based on my knowledge of fiber routes in Western Fairfax and Loudoun County and also from
my NASA / US Navy days, there is a whole lot of security through obscurity in the physical infrastructure.

On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 08:43 AM, Alex Yuriev wrote:



You'd think after three previous disruptions, that Qwest would
have enabled some form of redundancy.



Redundancy hell.  How about a *PADLOCK*?



You mean that these places aren't even locked?  Who has (had) the key?
That'd be the first place I looked.




The most amazing things can be found on certain northern

cross-country fiber routes in areas where cellphones don't work - they

thought about everything putting hundred thousand dollar doors and
locks to

prevent those who are not supposed to get into the huts from getting

there... Excellence to the nines.

Of course, since no one wants to carry keys to those super secure

entrances, the same time of cobination keyholders that S&D and some
others

use to attach cabinet keys to the back of the cabinets themselves had
been

placed right by those super secure doors.

Needless to say, it did not take long for every combination locked

to be popped, keys taken out and super-secure doors opened.



Alex










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                                 Marshall Eubanks

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