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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8329778
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I’m going to start mining in datacenters.
So like bitcoin?
Nah, this is different thing.
Barely staffed, yeah.
But locked up pretty friggin tight.
The racks themselves may be locked…sometimes proxcard, sometimes dynamo combination.
They are inside of a locked cage. Usually a combination of two or more…prox, biometric, pin.
That itself may even be inside of a locked room with the same access controls.
To get there, you will need to get past the security guard at the lobby. Depending on who the customers are and what state your in, those guards may be armed.
There most certainly will be a man-trap which will involve speaking to the guards and prove yourself as being a customer. Vendors must be escorted unless the customer got them registered as if they are employed by the customer.
Outside the building, could be guardshacks, likely with motorized gates. Sometimes also barbed wire.
They are also sometimes practically invisible unless you know they are there. There was one I used to work in in NOLA that looked like an abandoned strip mall. There was one in central MA like that as well. A friend of mine owns a data center in Providence that looks like any other abandoned mill building.
Macy’s Boston/Downtown Crossing?? Damn near all the Internet in New England flows through the floors above.
This is the plot of an Oceans movie.
Oceans
1011
two angle grinders. one with an aluminum cutter and the other with a steel cutter. You can get into basically anything with that combo. cut off the hinges or around the rack locks and just take stuff you didn’t spray with metal dust.
Plot twist: you’re in the US, so your angle grinder takes 120v but all the outlets in the cage are 240v.
battery angle grinder. really they should require licences. People have used them to steal bikes in public areas and nobody is confronting a potentially mentally unstable individual with a tool that can cut a U lock in a second or two
Yeah data centers are more secure than some prisons probably. Lots of sensitive data inside owned by a lot of companies, big and small. I’ve had to register and scan my retinas to gain access to the main building past the lobby. Then multiple airlocks all requiring key card taps to traverse through the labyrinth of cages until I get to a cage that I have access to, and then another card tap to get in.
And if you were somehow able to gain access without being known, if it’s your first time inside that particular data center there’s a good chance you’ll get lost or locked inside somewhere that you can’t exit, in an area where someone might not visit for hours, days even. You might actually just die in there like a caged rat.
But also, data centers are great for introverts who like to work in solitude. They’re dark, cool, have tons of white noise, and you can be pretty isolated.
Oh and also, if the fire alarms go off you have a short window of time to get out before they flood the place with a gas that you can’t breath and you could quickly die.
But also, data centers are great for introverts who like to work in solitude. They’re dark, cool, have tons of white noise, and you can be pretty isolated.
Oh yeah, only problem is that “dark, cool, tons of white noise” makes me tired as hell.
Or maybe that’s because I know that me being in a data center means I’ve got a loooooong day ahead.
Most the time the data center is lights out. Nobody really needs to go in except for adds/moves/changes to hardware itself.
I very rarely need hands on. I built a pretty robust remote management environment with no dependencies on the prod system. If I’m on-site, there’s a problem.
so I watched this fictional movie recently called How To Blow Up A Pipeline…
RIP to a real one who died a suspicious death
How did he die? I heard it was from autofellatio?
I feel like if he died sucking hits on dick it couldn’t be construed as suspicious.
This was a reference to when it happened, his friends said that’s what went down on a podcast. But yeah, I miss him, he was a comedic genius.
Officially he fell over the ledge between floors in his house after drinking.
Or that it’s full of RAM and GPUs, which have skyrocketed in price.
Right - I cant imagine there are enough rare metals in those components that would make them more valuable as scrap than as working server grade components
And don’t ever suggest that those free employees are definitely expendable.
Eh, very little though. The components themselves are orders of magnitude more valuable but you have to know how to steal them to make money when even slight damage in a few specific places can make it nonfunctional.
Some datacenters are staffed by people wearing armor and armed with guns.
those are late game dungeons, make sure you are geared up when you go
And get a monk to pull
Shared aggro, can’t do that unless you have a full party
and robot dogs!
Robot gorilla > robot dog
Aww, he would’ve loved this meme. RIP, local sexpot. 💔
all y’all are assuming i’d go through the doors. no. those shitty drop ceilings are real easy to walk around and get stuck on like a cat in a tree. man traps my ass.
