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Re: Fiber cut in SF area

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Beckman)
Sun Apr 12 21:52:14 2009

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:49:50 -0400
From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520904110854n35686d6dr779683c0a6e2c833@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> I'm not sure that the manholes == atm discussion is valid, but in the
> end the same thing is prone to happen to the manholes, there isn't
> going to be a unique key per manhole, at best it'll be 1/region or
> 1/manhole-owner. In the end that key is compromised as soon as the
> decision is made :(  Also keep in mind that keyed locks don't really
> provide much protection, since anyone can order lockpicks over the
> interwebs these days, even to states where ownership is apparently
> illegal :(

  Too bad there isn't 1Password for manhole covers.

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