Re: Cart and Horse

[James Pleger]

Yes, they could create a solution for this that will cost money, or they could just take out the welding specs and go to town for a fraction of the price.

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James Pleger
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On Apr 13, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Church, Charles wrote:

This type of stuff is typical of incident response... Fix the bleeding and create a long term solution that won't be as big of an impact.

Wouldn't some authentication system be more useful than trying to lock

system where you walk up to manhole, wave your 'wand' (like a Mobil
Speedpass), you hear a couple beeps, and you're cleared to open the

local utilities and telcos are notified, maybe police as well.  If you
can tie access to a particular person's ID, I doubt that person will
misuse it.  Of course, this requires power and battery backup.  On the
other hand, maybe it's time to put the blame on the unions.  If the

somehow, since they're acting like a terrorist group at that point.

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
From: Lamar Owen [mailto:lo...@pari.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 11:22 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cart and Horse


On Monday 13 April 2009 11:06:55 Roy wrote:

all the manholes? Picture a system maybe using RFID or some other radio manhole. Without authenticating, you can still get in, but the NOCs at saboteur is found to be a union member, maybe penalize the entire union

A friend mentioned at dinner yesterday that he spotted several AT&T
trucks next to manholes in the area affected by the fiber cut.  They
were busy welding the manhole covers to their rims.

:-)

Sounds like a cutting torch or portable chop saw will become standard
service
equipment for them after all.

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