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Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen
miller60 writes "Web servers hosting musician Peter Gabriel's web site have gone missing from their data center. "Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night — Monday morning," reads a notice at PeterGabriel.com. The incident is the latest in a series of high-profile equipment thefts in the past year, including armed robberies in data centers in Chicago and London. How secure is your data center?"
It's a handiwork of music pirates!
Did they break in with a sledgehammer?
Your mind is clear / The things that you fear / Will fade with how much you / Believe what you hear
A monkey, when asked for comment, was reportedly "shocked".
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The repercussions of this show what kind of destruction something like this can bring
Gabriel stole it from himself. He's jealous of Rick Astley's recent fame. He wants an internet Peter-roll using "Sledgehammer"...
A similar method of attack, layer 1 hijacking has been around at least 10 years now.
But that server was stolen, too. Unfortunately, the servercam on that one pointed to another server... which was also stolen. That one didn't have a camera, however.
Our data centre is behind three locked doors and on the middle floor. I love telling people when I remote into a server "yeah, I'm rebooting a box 16 miles away, behind locked doors and guards..."
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with these new containerized data centers you don't have to worry about hackers (crackers, whatever); you have to worry about somebody with one of these.
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We may not be created equal
But we can be treated equal.
Yeah, and don't expect that even the high-priority data centers are all paying attention. At one of the high-profile data centers where I used to work (didn't tier I used to be what people bragged about?), there was a guy sleeping under the raised floor for a few months before people finally caught on. He had a sleeping bag, food, etc down there....as long as he only went down there after regular business hours, his odds of bumping into someone were pretty low.
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Dammit, CowboyNeal! I told you to steal Rick Astley's web server!
In this Land of Confusion, only one man could be so evil to steal Peter Gabriel's hard drive: Phil Collins. Peter could probably fell it coming in the air tonight. (Oh! Lord!) But Seriously, (gotcha!) we'll see his true colors shining when the cops catch Phil throwing it all away. No son of mine would get away with that!
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