[54603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trends in network operator security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Jan 10 00:01:38 2003
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:45:47 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0301091415440.22849-100000@Overkill.EnterZone.Net> from "John Fraizer" at Jan 09, 2003 02:18:17 PM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Unnamed Administration sources reported that John Fraizer said:
>
> Does anyone know the answers to the following:
>
> (1) Why was this datacenter unmanned?
Why are CO's unmanned Saturday nights? ISP's?
Could the cost of manpower having anything to do with it?
> (2) If it was manned, how did the perps get physical access to steal the
> drives?
Once in the building, one article mentioned they'd found an access
card to the machine room in a PHB's office. No PINs?
> (3) Has the contractor been removed from the list of authorized vendors?
> (4) If not, why on earth NOT?
The vender peddles aspirin, not data services. You propose to now
deny those 500K families medical care, after raping their privacy?
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