Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps • Hacker News Board

Re: Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps

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Post by michaelgrafl » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

The client I work for has his servers in this thing, and I'll probably get to visit it soon. I'd rather they had a whisky bar and a place to smoke cigars installed somewhere in there.

Still, looking forward to seeing it for myself.

Re: Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps

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Post by prayerslayer » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:41 PM UTC

One of my professors told us that UBS mirrors its whole data center to another one located in a mountain. Does anybody know if it's this particular thing? Or are there more than one of this?

Re: Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps

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Post by Luc » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:42 PM UTC

It seems strange to me that they piggybacked on the Fort Knox 'brand'. Now if something untoward happens at Fort Knox, their brand is impacted too.

Seems like a missed opportunity to make the most of the aura of quality that 'Swiss' has (I like 'Swiss Fort' better).

Re: Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps

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Post by oh_sigh » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 2:54 PM UTC

Luc wrote: post #13

It seems strange to me that they piggybacked on the Fort Knox 'brand'. Now if something untoward happens at Fort Knox, their brand is impacted too. Seems like a missed opportunity to make the most of the aura of quality that 'Swiss' has (I like 'Swiss Fort' better).

What is going to happen to Fort Knox? Is a madman going to blow up a nuclear bomb inside of it, irradiating the gold for thousands of years?

Re: Swiss Fort Knox - High secure data center inside the Swiss Alps

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Post by Luc » Fri, Oct 25, 2013, 3:06 PM UTC

oh_sigh wrote: post #14

Luc wrote: post #13

It seems strange to me that they piggybacked on the Fort Knox 'brand'. Now if something untoward happens at Fort Knox, their brand is impacted too. Seems like a missed opportunity to make the most of the aura of quality that 'Swiss' has (I like 'Swiss Fort' better).

What is going to happen to Fort Knox? Is a madman going to blow up a nuclear bomb inside of it, irradiating the gold for thousands of years?

Ok, you're right, it's far fetched.

Fort Knox is a huge place though. I was thinking along the lines of a guy going on a shooting spree or something. The Fort Knox child massacre, that kind of thing. Very very unlikely I guess. Or someone starts up a Fort Knox site on Tor, and in the end lots of people get scammed.

It just seems incongruous to me to have a bunker in the Swiss Alps, more or less the pinnacle of safety, and then call it after something on the other side of the world.