Posted on 10/24/2016 9:16:58 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“Accountants were volunteering to help the customer service team, sales people were cheering on our NOC [network operations center] team,” York said. It’s not quite the thrilling war story of generations past, but it echoes the general uniting of voices from infrastructure, standards, and the security community, who have been concerned about the possibility of attacks like this for years.
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A family member worked at one of the sites. The employees were told not to discuss the building, or anything about it and sign the usual papers.
A large unmarked building among many is nicely indicated on the map!
Data centers are easy to spot for anyone in the biz.
I recently read a very interesting book that discusses the physical structure of the internet, discusses data centers, how internet traffic is sent internationally (undersea fiber optic cables) and related information.
“Tubes” by Andrew Blum.
Available on amazon. I read the Kindle edition.
People tend to think satellite connect internationally but sea cables do all the work. It is stunning how many cables there are and what a huge business it is.
That’s right. Satellites would be too slow because of the time it takes to send the signal up to the satellite (which is hovering about 22K miles above the earth),processing the signal, and then add the return time. Fiber optic cables are significantly faster.
My former, former employer (Fujitsu) is in that
business of laying submarine cables besides their computer and other hi-tech industries.
Bookmark must see Real time Cyber attack map:
https://cybermap.kaspersky.com/
Consider the source note:
Kaspersky Lab - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_Lab
Kaspersky Lab is an international software security group operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company is headquartered in Moscow ...
Interactive Undersea Cable Map
But building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is just crazy and impossible.
(See also maps of oil and gas pipelines in the U.S.)
BTW: two weeks ago US intelligence was monitoring a Russian “exploration” vessel anchored right by / menacing a major undersea Internet cable.
Russia, China, Iran and other state actors can do a lot of damage by cutting US / EU undersea Internet cables
http://nuvitik.ca/networks/
That’s fascinating. I always thought those undersea cables were antiquated.I always assumed the Russians tapped the undersea cables and could cut the cables in a time of war. I am sure in this day and age they still can.
Great Post!
So can we. Tapping sea cables was a cold war activity. Still is, I would guess.
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