alt Hacker NewsBecause any random machine in the same datacenter and network segment might be compromised and do stuff like running ARP spoofing attacks. Cisco alone has had so many vendor-provided backdoors cropping up that I wouldn't trust anything in a data center with Cisco gear.
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Ummm, no, The network is completely isolated. No one enters the cage and just plugs something into my switches/routers.
Any communication between the cage and the outside world is through the cross-connects.
Unless it's some state-adversary, no one taps us like this. This is not a shared hosting. No one runs serious workloads like this.
"Unserious"? Sure, everything is encrypted p2p.
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Back in the 90s I discovered the CTO of a major telecoms company was packet sniffing EFnet traffic in one of their datacenters in order to log all the PRIVMSGs to extort a couple of people. Security is only as good as its weakest leak, and all that.