Fort N.O.C.'s Security in Obscurity

penciling_in writes "Brock N. Meeks of MSNBC reports on his recent visit to VeriSign's secret location: 'The unassuming building that houses the "A" root sits in a cluster of three others; the architecture looks as if it were lifted directly from a free clip art library. No signs or markers give a hint that the Internet's most precious computer is inside humming happily away in a hermetically sealed room. This building complex could be any of a 100,000 mini office parks littering middle class America.' The report goes on to say: 'Access to the Network Operations Center, the "NORAD" of the Internet's traffic monitoring, requires the electronic badge and then a double biometric hand print scan.' And here are Karl Auerbach and Robert Alberti offering their interesting analysis of this report on CircleID."

Comments

Hi, I'm stupid

[Gothmolly]

And I think that DNS is centralized.
And I think that more government interference with the Internet is Good.
And I believe FUD.
And that Al Gore is pretty technical guy.
And I use AOL on my 'puter.

Please send more informative articles like this. I use them to line the insides of my tinfoil hats.

Thank you very much.

Re:if its any consolation

[DarkHelmet]

and im not sure which is worse to look at... the goatse man, or rhonda...

At least Bob Goatse has to cover up in public and doesn't "open wide" for a lot of people.

Re:How much physical security is necessary?

[missing000]

You're forgetting something here.

I bet you don't even know. The President reminded us again just a few days ago-

TERRORISTS ARE EVERYWHERE!

They are hiding around the corner right now, waiting until you least expect them. They are watching the root servers, planning a massive attack against .org first, and then, then they will bring down teh dotcom.

Yeah baby! Be scared! We have nothing to fear but wiry haired guys planning world domination via names with too many vowels in them.

Re:LINUX Analogy

[CausticWindow]

People didn't make Linux out of "the kindness in their heart". People made Linux, because they wanted a better os.

Kindness of the heart does not exist, even though fundamental christians tell you so.