I want to define secure as which ever takes the longest for X amount of people to breech from the outside perimeter to the innermost section of said facility. These people are motivated and can be armed, no tanks, planes, etc. Now my first guesses would be Ft Knox, and NORAD. But I think there main defenses are no one having the balls to try and get inside. NORAD has a big ass door but once you get pass the perimeter fence are there even any armed people to stop you? I now think it has to be some sort of military base such as FT Hood. Perhaps some sort of Nuclear facility? Not sure if this should be GD of GQ
At least entertain the possibility that it is in Nevada.
My new girlfriend’s pants. Three months and I still haven’t gotten into them.
It isn’t more secure than #52 though because no one could even find that one.
I would say NORAD. They can just seal the facility in the end of time nuclear war configuation and no one could get in at all. It is built to survive nuclear blasts and operate through WWIII with the staff safely inside with the necessary provisions.
I wasn’t thinking of a military facility, I was thinking of a casino vault. Probably not, though.
I work next to a facility that manufactures PITs (plutonium core for the big bombs). I’m not sure what I can say about the security process, but I can tell you that there are guards that carry RPGs, and there are .50 cals that are mounted to the tops of their vehicles.
I’d like to see you get inside a submerged submarine.
Funny, it took me less that 3 hours. What are you putting in her drinks?
Are offsite forces allowed to respond? I mean, if Norad’s own guards are killed, the force could blast through the door eventually. But I would suspect they would be swarmed by gunships within the hour.
The Internet root nameservers are pretty well defended. Most of them are housed within sites that you’d expect to have some military-strength defenses. For example, Server E is at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and Server G is at the US Department of Defense Network Information Center.
G’s mission statement sounds like they mean business: “To provide information and services that are mission critical to the operation of the worldwide IP router Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) and other DoD sponsored networks.”
Read into that whatever you wish, but to me, it sounds like they’d be all to happy to respond fast and first with deadly force.
Might be time for a strategic withdrawl unless she figures on your long-term plans.
Fort Knox should be right up there.
I have heard that DNS servers are almost more secure then some nuclear facilities, but in what way? Secure as in an eye scan to get into the room with a vault door or in the sense with a guy with a gun?
Seems more like a poll than a GQ, since the only way to settle this one would really be to test it.
Might I submit that the most secure facility out there would be something like NORAD and located in a location unknown to anyone aside from its operators?
Wouldn’t surprise me for a second if such a site existed.
Dick Cheney’s undisclosed secure location.
In the sense of you have to know where it is to even try to get in.
NASA’s Ames Research Center is easy to find - it’s right there off 101 and hard to miss with its huge hangars and freeway signs. But once you get past the armed sentries at the gate, now what? Which building? What floor? What room? I doubt that the particular server room is protected by armed staff, but the facility as a whole is.
Verisign used to hide the “A” root server in Herndon, Virginia behind layers of obscurity, plus multiple biometric checkpoints and mantraps. Plus, once again, more obscurity. Which server rack? Which server?
They’ve since moved and aren’t divulging anything now. Can’t say that I blame 'em.
The White House is protected from land and air attacks. If something manages to get through, they have the comms and authority to call in anything.
I have to vote for NORAD. The DNS servers probably aren’t located in a facility that is designed to survive a nuclear war.
Easy - just bring a big knife to cut through the screen door.
How many people are we talking about? You have to define what the objective is. Getting into NORAD is easy, or at least it was 10 years ago when I was there. You just sign up for the tour. You couldn’t assemble enough people to take it over that way, but you might be able to cause some trouble, or possibly steal a pen.