[109590] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Tue Dec 2 11:50:51 2008
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@t1r.com>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <49305CFB.9070703@vaxination.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:50:23 -0500
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
> M=E5ns Nilsson wrote:
>
>> Exactly where is of course known in the business, but not so well =20
>> that it
>> is OK to post their locations on Nanog.
>
> The problem with this mentality is that it does not deter those =20
> wishing
> to do harm to the data centre or corporation.
>
There are in fact, numerous public information sources and commercial =20=
databases that list every major and minor colocation and datacenter in =20=
the world. Please do not assume that folks don't know where you are =20
peering - they have street addresses, postal codes, satellite photos, =20=
and the name of the guard at the door.
- Daniel Golding=