[64836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Nov 3 14:03:25 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:02:08 -0500
Cc: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>, enger@comcast.net,
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
To: Alex Yuriev <alex@yuriev.com>
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311030838070.9762-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Based on my knowledge of fiber routes in Western Fairfax and Loudoun
County and also from
my NASA / US Navy days, there is a whole lot of security through
obscurity in the physical infrastructure.
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 08:43 AM, Alex Yuriev wrote:
>
>>>> You'd think after three previous disruptions, that Qwest would
>>>> have enabled some form of redundancy.
>>>
>>> Redundancy hell. How about a *PADLOCK*?
>>
>> You mean that these places aren't even locked? Who has (had) the key?
>> That'd be the first place I looked.
>
> The most amazing things can be found on certain northern
> cross-country fiber routes in areas where cellphones don't work - they
> thought about everything putting hundred thousand dollar doors and
> locks to
> prevent those who are not supposed to get into the huts from getting
> there... Excellence to the nines.
> Of course, since no one wants to carry keys to those super secure
> entrances, the same time of cobination keyholders that S&D and some
> others
> use to attach cabinet keys to the back of the cabinets themselves had
> been
> placed right by those super secure doors.
> Needless to say, it did not take long for every combination locked
> to be popped, keys taken out and super-secure doors opened.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks
e-mail : marshall.eubanks@telesuite.com
http://www.telesuite.com
