Re:Eagle scout. Idealist. Drug trafficker?
by moocowduckquack on Sunday January 19, 2014 @08:48AM
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Big doors and time-locks are likely to work better. Side-arms to protect computers is just security theater.
The only reason I can think of to have armed guards at a data center is if the people working there are at a real risk of armed attack, not the computers.
edit - also if your site security and uptime is dependent on some people with guns at a datacenter, then you are doing it wrong.
Re:Eagle scout. Idealist. Drug trafficker?
by tptacek on Sunday January 19, 2014 @11:48AM
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Thank you. Please substitute in your head the argument reasonable people can infer I intended to make for the argument my words accidentally included. :)
Re:Eagle scout. Idealist. Drug trafficker?
by badman_ting on Sunday January 19, 2014 @08:41AM
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>I suspect that most of us believe it might be justifiable to kill people to protect a website.
Right, that would be to tptacek's point.
Do you (or anyone else) oppose having armed guards protecting a data center? Armed guards protecting a data center means that someone might get killed to protect a website.
(You can draw other moral distinctions, and I'm not defending this guy in particular. I'm just pointing out that the specific argument you are making is most likely incorrect.)