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Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Wed Jul 9 12:50:02 2003

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:49:18 -0400
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:30:27PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> 
> I hate to be a doom sayer, but any chump with a couple of tools and
> rudimentary knowledge can lift manholes, cut cables and jump to another
> location in minutes. ...

Perhaps it's time for IDS on manholes?

But really, since the gas lines are down there too, is fiber the chief
worry?

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Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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