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Top Secret VISA Facility Revealed
Posted by: Danger Will Robinson ()
Date: March 26, 2012 12:36AM

From USA Today:

SOMEWHERE ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD – Prisons are easier to enter than Visa's top-secret Operations Center East, its biggest, newest and most advanced U.S. data center.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-25/visa-data-center/53774904/1

Which led to its location posted in the comments for all the world to see:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ashburn,+VA+visa&hl=en&ll=39.048702,-77.444515&spn=0.012465,0.026436&sll=38.739319,-77.002254&sspn=0.012519,0.026436&t=h&hq=visa&hnear=Ashburn,+Loudoun,+Virginia&fll=39.050269,-77.44488&fspn=0.012465,0.026436&z=16

Duh.

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Re: Top Secret VISA Facility Revealed
Posted by: Olde Farte ()
Date: March 26, 2012 06:16AM

Danger Will Robinson Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> From USA Today:
>
> SOMEWHERE ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD – Prisons are
> easier to enter than Visa's top-secret Operations
> Center East, its biggest, newest and most advanced
> U.S. data center.
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-25
> /visa-data-center/53774904/1

This was discussed a year ago here. Some article elsewhere discussed the place and mentioned an "exclusive tour" or something like that. USA Today took that article, apparently, and regurgitated it.

http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/36/485935/485935.html#msg-485935

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Re: Top Secret VISA Facility Revealed
Posted by: money lover ()
Date: March 26, 2012 07:02AM

I heard mastercard has a secret data center under fairfax. There is a tunnel under the lamb center that comes up at tippys taco.

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Re: Top Secret VISA Facility Revealed
Posted by: Olde Farte ()
Date: March 26, 2012 07:37AM

Here's the ABC news article discussing "exclusive access":

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/12/inside-visas-security-fortress-for-credit-fraud-tips/

>>> ...“Nightline” was granted exclusive access inside the data center, a facility
>>> so top-secret that its location cannot be found on Google maps and anyone who
>>> enters has to pass through more checkpoints than when you visit the White
>>> House...

Note that, not unusual for the Me-Too Media, the article is simply wrong about the lack of public knowledge about the facility. As noted with the old thread, the Loudoun County parcel records clearly state the owner.

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