[59592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Missle Silos (was: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Osmon)
Wed Jul 9 23:24:27 2003
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:01:12 -0600
From: John Osmon <josmon@rigozsaurus.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030709220510.V79756@shell.inch.com>; from spork@inch.com on Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:08:01PM -0400
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> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>
> In the US, American Tower is/was liquidating a number of cold war era
> ex-AT&T blast-proof sites. They are all in need of an upgrade, but the
> basics are there (underground, multiple layers of concrete, blast doors,
> etc. Even "blast toilets". I'm surprised some enterprising/paranoid soul
> has not snatched a few of these up and converted them into secure offsite
> storage. Even without diverse routes, you can ensure safe data storage.
Keep your data in Roswell!
http://albany.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2003/03/31/story3.html
Only bad part, is the ILEC doesn't have the facility to bring
T1s to the site (let alone anything bigger). They are, however, about
1/2 mile from the border of one of the independents -- I believe they're
being served via some type of wireless.
