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RE: Collocation Access
From: "Nick Thompson" <Nick.Thompson () multibandusa com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:41:45 -0500
Surprisingly on a recent visit to a large co-location facility I was required to leave my ID with the security staff at the front desk in exchange for a visitor's pass, for the entire time I was in the facility. Normally I would not have an issue with this, but any outside visitors are shadowed by an employee of the facility the entire time they are in the facility as well. It seems as though at this point there is little need for security to maintain control of the ID, again which could possibly leave it open to various activities already mentioned by some others. Nick Thompson -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Roland Perry Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:41 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Collocation Access In article <20061023103731.W56322 () iama hypergeek net>, John A. Kilpatrick <john () hypergeek net> writes
In fact he did have an AT&T badge which he was not allowed to hand
over
either. The fellow I chatted with at AT&T said they are not allowed
to
hand over their badge because it would compromise their security.My tech said the same thing. That keycard could grant central office access so he couldn't surrender it.
I have to admit (now I've been sent some information off-list) that I didn't realise the co-lo security were holding onto the "badge" (or access card or whatever) the whole time the tech was on the premises. Yes, that would give more opportunities for bad things to happen. In many years of gaining access to secured buildings I've only ever had that happen once (passport exchanged for a visitor's pass, and back again at the end of the day). -- Roland Perry
Current thread:
- Re: Collocation Access, (continued)
- Re: Collocation Access bmanning (Oct 23)
- Re: Collocation Access Joseph S D Yao (Oct 23)
- Re: Collocation Access Mike Hughes (Oct 24)
- Re: Collocation Access Jay Hennigan (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Alex Rubenstein (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access John Curran (Oct 23)
- Re: Collocation Access Joe Provo (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Control Gadi Evron (Oct 24)
- RE: Collocation Access Brandon Butterworth (Oct 23)
- Re: Collocation Access Roland Perry (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Nick Thompson (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Steve Gibbard (Oct 23)
- RE: Collocation Access Frank Coluccio (Oct 24)