Deep inside the Swiss Alps, a former nuclear bunker is now the ultimate hiding place for the world’s most sensitive secrets. Wired gains access to the server farm designed to survive a full-scale military attack.
The cockpit of Christoph Oschwald’s silver Audi A8 is preternaturally quiet as he steers through the Swiss countryside towards our destination. Wired has been instructed not to disclose its exact whereabouts. It’s late June, “the longest day of the year”, Oschwald notes. It should be 25°C outside. Instead, it’s an unseasonably chilly 12°C, and the tiny village of Saanen, in the canton of Bern, sits beneath a steel-grey sky that lends an ominous air to what might otherwise resemble an Alpenland panorama on a souvenir chocolate bar.
Another day, another interesting server farm
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
Wired has been instructed not to disclose its exact whereabouts... tiny village of Saanen, in the canton of Bern......We pass a Tissot boutique abutting a tractor dealership before the road dives into dense forest and follows a stream... it appears to be nothing more than a timber operation, with lorries moving wooden payloads around a gravelly clearing.
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
Raven wrote:I don't quite understand the value of having a server farm that secure
Why don't you understand it? There is data out there that no one bu the owner should have access to, as well as it should be very difficult to physically access. Hell, there is data that should be at rest and not accessible at all in this location!
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
Raven wrote:But strong encryption can have the same effect for a lot less. Color me unconvinced.
Define strong encryption... and if you say AES256, I'm going to laugh off my chair...
Sometimes the mere fact that data exists is enough to warrant it being locked up.
Sabre (Julian) 92.5% Stock 04 STI
Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
Why don't you understand it? There is data out there that no one bu the owner should have access to, as well as it should be very difficult to physically access. Hell, there is data that should be at rest and not accessible at all in this location!
