[Gllug] (article) Bogus bobbies raid Kings Cross data centre

[Alex Smith]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:35 +0000, Paul Lee wrote:
>> Its why Redbus Telecity did away for RFID tags I think, 
> 
> I rather got the impression it was because they were bought by Telecity
> and TC don't use those.
> 
Yes and no. They didn't want people to be able to walk in and out 
without having an access number generated for each visit (which is a 
little annoying unless you have access to their portal). The other 
reason was because the staff (apparently) couldn't keep up with people 
who were no longer customers - I thought it was more secure as they 
stored your photo too... go figure.

>> Whats really preventing a terrorist cell from renting rack space and 
>> packing a server with a dirty or even a conventional weapon and 
>> detonating it over the network?

There was random rumor's floating around a year or so ago regarding 
Telehouse (East) and something like that. At that time they started 
randomly searching people more often - they still do it now just not as 
often.

Not going to stop people if they wanted to though. Just a shame that so 
much of the UK's net traffic goes through that small area....

Alex
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