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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Iron Mountain 

In May 2007, reporter Mary Nam of station KOMO in Seattle, Washington, visited the Iron Mountain storage facility in a former underground mine in rural Pennsylvania. Her six-minute Iron Mountain news report is on YouTube, courtesy of some enthusiastic 9/11 conspiracy buff. In addition to the remains of Flight 93, the facility preserves original Elvis records and (no joke) Bill Gates's photo collection, and probably your own holiday snaps and third-grade report cards.

This chipper little public-relations exercise boasts that the facility has never had a security breach, but it fails to mention Iron Mountain's record of data losses while transporting data to and from this and other storage facilities.

I almost thought for a moment about explicitly making a connection to PARANOIA here, but I assume that's unnecessary. Why don't people send me these things faster? This clip already has 1.4 million views!

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