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RE: Airplane crashing into Atlanta-NAP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Oct 26 21:48:48 1996

Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:35:53 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu

Chris A. Icide <chris@nap.net> wrote:

>I heard that there is an abandoned Nuclear Power Plant
>construction site...

Well, reinforced buildings do not help against a pair of
morons with an axe and a truck with Montana plates.  There's
no way to protect all cables going out.

Fortunately, there is an easy answer, and that is "geographical
diversity".  Helps a lot against earthquakes, hurricanes,
cabin dwellers and other natural disasters.

--vadim

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