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          • 2 months

            not OP but I believe they’re “soft” in the sense that they don’t have moats/high electric fences/battalions of armed guards around 24/7

            • 2 months

              With a clipboard you could probably just walk in and start unplugging things

              • 2 months

                That’s… Not quite true. Usually they take access quite seriously. If in a multi tenant space every space will be separated and the physical cages around the machines locked and monitored.

                All the same they are designed to keep small numbers of mostly law abiding people out, not an angry mob with torches.

                • 2 months

                  Agree. I live in Winnipeg, Canada, and I have visited local datacentres - anything built in the last twenty years would be very hard to physically penetrate with stealth alone.

                  There are older ones which might be a bit less sophisticated, but that’s not the norm.

          • 2 months

            Yeah but it’s really easy to hurt their feelings so be mindful

    • 2 months

      There’s a latency between asking for forgiveness and being demanded to stop.

    • 2 months

      It’s easier to beg for social forgiveness than it is to ask for social permission