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."

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Security through obscurity? Wha?

[Call Me Black Cloud]

Wait a minute, something's not right. I've been a loyal slashdot reader for a little while now and have become thoroughly indoctrinated in the ways of open source. In fact, in the project I'm currently working on (for the US government), we're using no less than 15 open source products.

I want to know how the "heart" of the Internet will ever stay beating being run like this. We all know that security through obscurity will never work, and this double biometric thing sounds like something RIAA dreamed up.

For the greater good we need the Internet to have a robust and healthy heart. Therefore I believe they should take the following measures to ensure said health:

1. Advertise where the building is and put up big signs.
2. Remove all security devices, including but not limited to door locks and passwords.
3. Allow anyone at any time to come in, sit down, and start examining the equipment and software being used.
4. Allow the source code to be published on the Internet, and take code revisions from outside parties.

You see my fellow readers, only when this happens can we truly be secure.

Coming next week on "Open Source Speaks", detailed plans to your local federal penitentiary, including but not limited to blueprints, schematics for locks, and guard schedules.

Re:A hidden danger.

[bluewee]

hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

another curveball

[freddyfred89]

Did anyone else notice that the byline is designed to obscure the true identity of the author? Here is the byline:

By Brock N. Meeks
Cheif Washington correspondent
MSNBC

Its hard to work out this puzzle, because the truth is well-hidden, but I think I've cracked it. I'm willing to bet that this was written by MSNBC's Chief Washington correspondent.

When bylines have typos, I'm pretty sure its a sign that the republic is falling ...