From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 13:25:02 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: U.K. Hosts Bomb-Proof Computer Room
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 10:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: William Knowles <erehwon@kizmiaz.dis.org>
To: DC-Stuff <dc-stuff@dis.org>, Access All Areas <aaa-list@access.org.uk>
cc: Digital Commerce Society of Boston <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: U.K. Hosts Bomb-Proof Computer Room
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(Network Week) [9.30.98] Anyone worried about the security of
e-commerce might find a nuclear bomb-proof server room lightly
excessive, but that is exactly what British company AL Digital,
the company behind the Apache-SSL secure Web server, is offering.

AL Digital, based in London, is offering host servers at
The Bunker, an ex-military base that was formerly a key British
Ministry of Defense communications center. The company said the
facility had secure chambers buried deep underground and
communications capacity available on tap.

"We feel physical security is often overlooked," said AL
Digital director Adam Laurie. "Hacking and cracking are not
the major risks anymore because of strong encryption; where
you're vulnerable is at the physical point at which you
decrypt the data."

Laurie said the servers based at The Bunker would be protected
against electronic eavesdropping, physical intrusion, and
electromagnetic damage, as well as a nuclear strike.

"We could have built our own secure facility, but we heard
this was on the market," he added. He said it's as physically
robust as Telehouse, a high-security server-hosting facility in
Staten Island, N.Y., if not more so.


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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'