Top Firms Retreat Into Bunker To Ward Off 'Anarchists'

[Bill Stewart]

That's rather old news, and was even rather old news when the newspapers
discovered it; the "anarchist protestors" PR spin was just taking advantage
of current events to hook an article on.
Ben Laurie and thebunker.net are well known in cypherpunks circles,
and you'll find a fair bit of discussion in the cypherpunks archives.
IIRC, they were even bidding on a second bunker for expansion space,
though given the last 3 months' transition in the US internet hosting space 
market
(from "We're all building like mad!" to "Ohhh, noooo!  What a glut!")
I hope they're able to make the right financial choices.
The UK is probably not flooded with the things yet, and
while a nuclear-proof bunker may be overkill for offsite backup space,
you do need a certain level of security and reliable power
if you're in a business like banking that can't afford to lose data.

Also see the last month's worth of userfriendly.org/static cartoons....

At 12:21 PM 08/22/2001 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>From: "Moon Kat" <lavalake at hotmail.com>
>To: freematt at coil.com
>Subject: Top firms retreat into bunker to ward off 'Anarchists'
>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:46:41 +0000
>
>Hi Matt
>
>Not sure if you've seen this one already but here goes.  Quite where the 
>anti-capitalists are going to get a thermonuclear bomb from isn't 
>explained in the article but surely such a device would compromise their 
>"Neo-Luddite" principles anyway?
>
>Yours, in a fallout shelter, somewhere west of London
>
>dK
>
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>
>
>TOP FIRMS RETREAT INTO BUNKER TO WARD OFF 'ANARCHISTS'
>
>"Some of Britain's biggest companies are running their Internet operations 
>on systems installed in a 300ft-deep nuclear blast-proof bunker to protect 
>customers from violent anti-capitalist campaigners. They are renting space 
>in hermetically sealed rooms capable of withstanding a one Kiloton 
>explosion, electro-magnetic 'pulse bombs', electronic eavesdropping and 
>chemical and biological warfare."