The major Internet backbone networks for the Pacific Northwest converge at a single location: the Westin building in Seattle, a 32-story structure that houses dozens of major and minor Internet service providers. It is also home to more than 50 . . .

The major Internet backbone networks for the Pacific Northwest converge at a single location: the Westin building in Seattle, a 32-story structure that houses dozens of major and minor Internet service providers. It is also home to more than 50 wireless networks, most of which apparently have no security.

"The Westin building is the Northwest nexus for all the fiber. Everyone who is anyone is colocated there," said Josh Pennell, CEO and principal consultant for Seattle security firm IOActive, who recently visited his company's servers at the site. "You can think about the mayhem that people can cause by getting onto that. It's pretty scary stuff."

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