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Re:Why Is Ashburn the Data Center Capital of the World? by jeffrallen on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:16AM (#42722748)
No, but the FBI does. One time in a data center in Ashburn I read the label on a box in a mysterious cage, and it said WYLTK, LLC.

WYLTK means "wouldn't you like to know".

I did want to know, and discovered that it's a front for the FBI.

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Re:Why Is Ashburn the Data Center Capital of the World? by gunian on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:59AM (#42723062)
does it though? narratives can always be spun, enemies crafted, and people killed such is the way of the world no matter how much we pretend to live in a different reality

was it cool FBI at least? one of the many nodes for aggregating data perchance or same old SSO

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Re:Why Is Ashburn the Data Center Capital of the World? by thefrozenone on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:35AM (#42727540)
How did you find out? (If you're able to share)
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Re:Why Is Ashburn the Data Center Capital of the World? by jeffrallen on Saturday January 18, 2025 @08:58AM (#42748349)
Open source intelligence. From the ASN to IP ranges, and onwards to old messages on mailing lists, where the headers leaked the fact that the person sent email from WYLTK, and the person was publicly associated with the FBI by way of speaking gigs.
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Re:Why Is Ashburn the Data Center Capital of the World? by melody_calling on Thursday January 16, 2025 @01:08PM (#42728704)
That's hilarious.

For anyone else wondering, it's AS27612 and the registered address is mentioned online -- unsurprisingly -- as the "CALEA Implementation Unit".

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