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Re: Collocation Access

From: Joe Provo <nanog-post () rsuc gweep net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:32:27 -0400


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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Re: Practical Common Practice for Collocation Access, (continued)
- - - Re: Practical Common Practice for Collocation Access bmanning (Oct 23)
    - Re: Practical Common Practice for Collocation Access Gadi Evron (Oct 24)
    - Re: Practical Common Practice for Collocation Access Mike Hughes (Oct 24)
    - Re: Collocation Access Joe Maimon (Oct 23)
    - Re: Collocation Access bmanning (Oct 23)
    - Re: Collocation Access Joseph S D Yao (Oct 23)
    - Re: Collocation Access Mike Hughes (Oct 24)
  - Re: Collocation Access Jay Hennigan (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Alex Rubenstein (Oct 23)
  - RE: Collocation Access John Curran (Oct 23)
  - Re: Collocation Access Joe Provo (Oct 23)
  - RE: Collocation Access Control Gadi Evron (Oct 24)
- RE: Collocation Access Brandon Butterworth (Oct 23)
  - Re: Collocation Access Roland Perry (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Nick Thompson (Oct 23)
  - RE: Collocation Access Steve Gibbard (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Frank Coluccio (Oct 24)