[92990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Mon Oct 23 18:39:40 2006
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:32:27 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <BA2F6CAB78180542A571750BFB5E6C29025D8A70@Tin2003.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:07:56PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
[snip]
> What I've never understood is, that, how a gov't issue ID (for the
> purposes of allowing entry) is of any use whatsoever.
No matter how easy to forge, *requiring* them raises the risk/reward
bar. Penalties for forging Q Random Company ID are less than those
related to forging "government issue" IDs. Of course, it moves the
bad guys' gamble to 'will there be a rent-a-cop that doesn't check
the ID book or have they installed actual lookup facilities'?
Cheers,
Joe
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