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Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years
mariushm writes "According to the Register, the Chicago-based colocation datacenter C I Host was attacked by armed intruders recently, making it the the fourth time in two years that armed thugs have made off with data. According to a letter C I Host officials sent customers, 'At least two masked intruders entered the suite after cutting into the reinforced walls with a power saw ... During the robbery, C I Host's night manager was repeatedly tazered and struck with a blunt instrument. After violently attacking the manager, the intruders stole equipment belonging to C I Host and its customers.' Aggravating the situation, C I Host representatives took several days to admit the most recent breach, according to several customers who said they lost equipment, all the while reporting the problems as 'router failures'."
And if they have been robbed before - why not increase the security? Four times? - That's some kind of record. Maybe it's time to check if the localization of the whole thing is incorrect and move it to a better location where it's less likely to suffer from this kind of incident?
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No, it sounds like something out of a ridiculously popular A-movie that makes 100s of millions of dollars. You underestimate the american public's willingness to watch total crap.
After the first robbery, I'd seriously consider moving my data. If my data is still there after the second robbery, I feel stupid. If my data is still there after the third robbery, I should lose my job. If my data is still there after the fourth robbery, I need to promoted to executive management.
The entire purpose of off-site storage is disaster recovery, and prevention of major disasters like this. Why are these guys still in business?
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Armed guards are probably legal, and using the fire suppression system you could probably get away with if you didn't specifically give orders to use it as a weapon, but the electrical booby trap is almost certainly illegal. If nothing else it almost certainly contravenes local health and safety laws.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
Ok, so they robbed $50,000 of routers and servers.
Where are they going to fence them. The average geek has no need of 16 core Xeons, no matter what game they play. If they were dells, (IF) they are going to have TAG #s and it wouldn't be hard to see Dell doing a trace on em, ie very hot property.
Thirdly, no legit business, at least any I have worked in, would touch (some) state of the art servers at half price, no support, from a questionble source with no history. Same goes for all the cisco kit. Bet they end up abroad.
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Well, if it really happens maybe those movies aren't quite as silly as you thought.
I mean, yeah, they're stupid ... but it's harder to claim they're unrealistic now.
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Um no... you're actually just a fucking idiot. Nice try, sort of.
As a company that host spammers, and threatens lawsuits (cartoonies) against anti spammers, I can only hope the crooks stole the spam servers as well.
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings.lasso?isp=cihost.com
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All the more reason for armed guards or even armed employees
Good luck there - this is *Chicago*, remember. They, like many other large cities, much prefer to disarm the populace and then pretend that there's no more gun crime as a result.
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maybe it's time to weave in copper mesh into the T-shirt
Or Maybe arming some of the guards - but then again Chicago has some very restrictive gun laws, including a complete ban on handguns, so this may not be possible without relocating.
Q: How in the high FUCK can you get a pistol or CCW permit in Chicago? ...
A: Only if you're a cop or military
CI Host is out to lunch (and they'll be out of business soon - the lawsuits are starting).
CI Host doesn't want to spend the money on secure facilities, instead replacing that with a rent-a-dumb-warm-body. Dumb, because taking this job w/o a permit is just begging to be thrown in jail, and if you have the permit, you can sure as heck do better than CI Host.
Time to move, I actually live in a rural area, but due to location there was a particular bank that could not be defended, robbed eight times in two years, they finally closed the thing, and voila no more bank robberies in town. Once these people figure something out that works they will become accustomed to more income, they will come back until they get caught, or the easy pickings disappear.
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We all wish this was a utopia where this was true, however it couldn't be further from it. Criminals will always have access to firearms readily no matter how strict the gun laws are. Increased gun laws or bans tends to result in an increase in organized crime. Sure you cut down on some of the horrible aspects of guns: accidental deaths, anger/alcohol related murders. However when you take guns out of the hands of responsible citizens you do little to dissuade all types of criminals who will still have access to weapons, and in fact will often encourage violent crime since the criminal can be sure that he is the only one with a weapon.
A great example of this is found with the "Gun Free Zones" in the states, particularly schools. Mass school shootings are occurring more and more frequently in the states, with the VATech shooting being the most recent and horrific. Most of these crimes when investigated show a large amount of time and effort went into them. Including obtaining illegal weapons such as explosives in some cases. All the gun bans in the world wouldn't stop these people from acquiring weapons.
In these gun free zones the criminal can be sure that the chances of someone else on campus gun to shoot back with being slim to none. So they attack the campus and shoot and shoot until the police stop them. Oh wait the police have yet to stop any of them in the cases I'm aware of. In fact in every case these individuals have ended the spree THEMSELVES, by taking their own life, usually well before police arrive. Gun free zones and strict gun laws (or bans as you advocate) do nothing other than promote violent crime, and have been shown in studies that enactment of gun laws has increased violent crime.
In my opinion the best balance is limiting access to weapons by background checks, weapon classes for special permits (concealed carry), and limiting some types of weapons. In most potential cases a handgun or shotgun is more than adequate for self defense. As such I agree with bans placed on assault weapons. The last thing we should be doing is taking guns from responsible individuals.
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