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Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:02:08 -0500
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 - theythought about everything putting hundred thousand dollar doors and locks toprevent 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 secureentrances, 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 beenplaced 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
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