http://www.royalgazette.com/siftology.royalgazette/Article/article.jsp?articleId=7d8b3b730030034§ionId=60 By Amanda Dale The Royal Gazette November 7. 2008 A top secret IT centre will ensure pensioners and civil servants receive payments in the aftermath of a disaster or hurricane. The location of the Government facility is so under-wraps, Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and E-Commerce Terry Lister could only disclose it was "a number of miles from Hamilton". Mr. Lister said he could not reveal the location of the centre for "security reasons". "We can't tell you that," he told The Royal Gazette. "Because Bermuda is so small, one would know exactly where they are. "The whole point to it is if our systems went down from sabotage we would have another site where no one knew where it was." The Minister did disclose the costs of the facility – $44,000, plus staffing costs. The "high-security processing site" is built from concrete to withstand hurricanes, with a generator for power outages. It will be manned by staff from a Bermudian IT company, which Mr. Lister also refused to disclose the details of, for "security reasons". [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Mon Nov 10 2008 - 00:43:59 PST
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