[113473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cart and Horse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Mon Apr 13 13:26:46 2009
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:23:27 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Church, Charles wrote:
> Wouldn't some authentication system be more useful than trying to lock
> all the manholes? Picture a system maybe using RFID or some other radio
> system where you walk up to manhole, wave your 'wand' (like a Mobil
> Speedpass), you hear a couple beeps, and you're cleared to open the
> manhole. Without authenticating, you can still get in, but the NOCs at
> local utilities and telcos are notified, maybe police as well. If you
> can tie access to a particular person's ID, I doubt that person will
> misuse it.
Get the guy drunk on Friday night, pickpocket his ID, cut fiber.
> "Roy" <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A friend mentioned at dinner yesterday that he spotted several AT&T
>> trucks next to manholes in the area affected by the fiber cut. They
>> were busy welding the manhole covers to their rims.
And now the security theater begins.
jc
