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This. And if you're really worried about it you can go crazy with security with individually issued hardware security tokens and one time use access tokens.

It's pretty inexcusable that FB wasn't able to use OOB management.

It’s likely that their oobm systems are depending on dns in some way - aaa for instance. It’s not possible that they don’t have oobm at all, really.

HN engineers believe out of band admin control planes to be surveillance and backdoor firmware so they are disabled for privacy reasons.

Who the hell put HN engineers are in charge of facebook, and why haven't we gotten more out of it than a temporary outage??

Previously they had physical access to the data centers and weren't locked out.