I feel that no matter how much you try to bypass the intermediary, it would continue to remain the place for anything auction - 0day vulnerabilities, Enigma encryption machines, and now a Titan 1 ICBM Missile Base, is for sale at Ebay for the N time. Bari Hotchkiss listed the characteristics of the underground fortress as :
- Hardened buildings built to withstand One megaton nuclear blast within three thousand feet
- Wall thicknesses up to fourteen feet
- Thousands of feet of connecting tunnels
- Paved roads. Security fencing
Trying to auction it again, as he seems to own the facility, it beats The Bunker in respect to a wide range of physical/electronic attack based security possibilities, and has the potential to turn into the perfect data center with enough space for war rooms on every level.
As Gene Spafford once put it :
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards - and even then I have my doubts."
and you would probably need a network connection of some kind to make use if it -- that means insecurities posed out of open and hard to control external networks.
I've once mentioned how nuclear weapons aren't the type of central military thinking problem the way they used to be during the Cold War's arms race, as there are many more emerging threats to consider, such as EMP, and Space warfare, but that's hell of an offer for a post-ColdWar underground complex, isn't it?
Some resources worth taking a look at :
19 Ways to Build Physical Security into a Data Center
Data Center : Securing Server Farms - Solution Reference Network Design
Data Center Security Associate Certificate Recommended Reading
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