Re: [LUG] Datacentres

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:25:57PM +0100, Jon Still wrote:

> > security dear holmes, security ;)
>
> It'd help if the palm scanners worked and the photo-printing system 
> wasn't broken.  Oh and beaurocracy :)

There is a Postoffice system in the datacentre in the East of the
country which holds sensitive data (nuff said). To get in there, you
use a palm volume scanner to get you into what is effectively an
airlock, which has a video camera where a bloke in Liverpool (the NW of
the country), can see you and let you in. Without digging up the
floor, etc, there is no way that anyone in the datacentre itself can
let you into the computer suite. They can, of course, let you out.

Steve

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