DHS letters for fuel and facility access

Mon Mar 16 23:24:24 UTC 2020

The SF Bay Area shelter in place rules specifically exempt news media, telecommunications and internet including infrastructure services thereof (presumably large internet companies, network and security vendors, etc), fuel deliveries.

I could use infrastructure vendors excuse but $current_client_company is on mandatory WFH for next five weeks and team had filtered out doing it informally before it became official.  

I’d name the company but someone might contact me for an emergency and I have nothing to do with the customer incidents team.  I don’t even know who to forward stuff to.  Suffice it to say that everyone doing network security infra at all the vendors is being as safe as possible under the circumstances.  We’re trying to keep all the lights on for you.

-George 

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> On Mar 16, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> On some other mailing lists, FCC licensed operators are reporting they have received letters from the Department of Homeland Security authorizing "access" and "fuel" priority.
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> Occasionally, DHS issues these letters after natural disasters such as hurricanes for hospitals and critical facilities.  I haven't heard of them issued for pandemics.
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