[113467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fiber cut in SF area
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Ringsmuth)
Mon Apr 13 12:43:39 2009
From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring@inebraska.com>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0904131803550.29570@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:28:38 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> Manhole locks are just going to stop vandalism, and I think the
>> threat
>> to obstruction calculation just doesn't add up for that small level
>> of
>> isolated cases.
>
> It doesn't stop it, it just makes it slightly harder, and they'll go
> after another point.
IMHO, I think manhole locks would only serve to HEIGHTEN the threat,
not minimize it. Flag this under the whole "obscurity" category, but
think about this - if you're a vandal itching to do something stupid,
and you see a bunch of manhole covers and a couple of them have locks
on them, which ones are you going to target? The ones with the locks,
of course. Why? Because by the very existence of the locks, it
implies there's something of considerable value beyond the lock.
-Andy
