--- begin forwarded text 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 Organization: Home for retired social engineers & unrepented cryptophreaks MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: bounce-dcsb@ai.mit.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: William Knowles <erehwon@kizmiaz.dis.org> (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. == I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover == http://www.dis.org/erehwon/ For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "dcsb-request@ai.mit.edu" with one line of text: "help". --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'