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by CamperBob2 22 hours ago
The point is that if you don't put them in the middle of somebody's neighborhood, nobody will care to attack them.

The idea of building robust, lightly-staffed technical facilities in obscure places all over the country is nothing even remotely new. It's how the long-distance telephone network was constructed and successfully operated in the decades before satellites took over: https://telephoneworld.org/long-distance-companies/att-long-...