You can't make this stuff up

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  • smorris
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2003
    • 695
    • Tampa, Florida, USA.

    #1

    You can't make this stuff up

    Our company opened a branch in Beijing and my team was tasked with securing it and working with network to get everything installed and hooked up. We bought all the equipment and a sealed rack with integral cooling and ship it over there.

    Now we discover that our equipment is apparently too sophisticated for the local carrier to do the network connection (their words, not mine). We finally manage to walk the local isp provider through hooking up to a Cisco router and Checkpoint firewalls.

    One of the sales drones sends an email to our CEO and CIO to complain that our server rack is putting out radiation and everybody in the office is getting sick. The office is unsafe. I ask for clarification as the CEO is going off the rails about us killing the staff off, and yes, the drone is claiming we are putting out hard radiation. No, he didn't have any way to measure it but he'd never seen blue lights on the front of servers before so it was obvious those were emitters.

    I think I should hire Jack Bauer to go resolve this for me.

    I once threatened to write a white paper on the whole process of buying a company in AP that is completely compromised and bring it up to industry security standards. My associates said that no one would believe the tales we could tell, this is affirmation of their position.
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  • cgallery
    Veteran Member
    • Sep 2004
    • 4503
    • Milwaukee, WI
    • BT3K

    #2
    Absolutely AWESOME!

    It is too bad that you can't remotely sound a siren like you hear in episodes of Lost (the one if you don't punch the number in on time! )

    Tell them the antidote to radiation poisoning is melamine!

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    • pelligrini
      Veteran Member
      • Apr 2007
      • 4217
      • Fort Worth, TX
      • Craftsman 21829

      #3
      LOL, that is unreal. What makes it worse, is that it looks like your CEO believes it.
      Erik

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      • Black wallnut
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        • Jan 2003
        • 4715
        • Ellensburg, Wa, USA.
        • BT3k 1999

        #4
        That is just way out there! I thought it was not legal to export computer technology to China. Has this changed?
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        • Kerf
          Established Member
          • Feb 2006
          • 138

          #5
          Originally posted by Black wallnut
          That is just way out there! I thought it was not legal to export computer technology to China. Has this changed?
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          • smorris
            Senior Member
            • Apr 2003
            • 695
            • Tampa, Florida, USA.

            #6
            Originally posted by Black wallnut
            That is just way out there! I thought it was not legal to export computer technology to China. Has this changed?
            It is fine to export these sorts of things, they are just commodity servers(dell, cisco, checkpoint). We'd have them order it locally but then we have to worry about them getting the order right and configuring the equipment. We tried that once and they ordered a Linksys hub because it was cheaper than a Cisco switch.
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            Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

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