So... It s Not a Secret Anymore

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"'Brock N. Meeks of MSNBC reports on his recent visit to VeriSign's secret location: 'The unassuming building that houses the 'A' root sits in a cluster of three others; the architecture looks as if it were lifted directly from a free clip art library. No signs or markers give a hint that the Internet's most precious computer is inside humming happily away in a hermetically sealed room. This building complex could be any of a 100,000 mini office parks littering middle class America.' The report goes on to say: 'Access to the Network Operations Center, the 'NORAD' of the Internet's traffic monitoring, requires the electronic badge and then a double biometric hand print scan.' And here are Karl Auerbach and Robert Alberti offering their interesting analysis of this report on CircleID.'"

if this place was so important, why bother telling people where it is in the first place? granted, security by secrecy isn't the most effective, but you would think that you wouldn't go around telling everyone about it. it's like telling people you have herpes and showing them what the warts look like. people just don't do that.

then again, it could be a decoy. the information purposely leaked so that those w/ evil intent will strike at the decoy while leaving the real one safe.

but what if they put it out so that the evil people think its a decoy, but it really isn't. it really is the place and the whole idea of it being the decoy is the decoy.

hoof. i feel like an artist. lemme go paint about it.