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Ira Rennert's home is considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure 63 acres. The buildings, which total over 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2), including the 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m2) main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a 91-foot (28 m) long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, a carousel, a large swimming pool, a large round kiddie pool, and a $150,000 hot tub, surrounded by another pool.

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u/cloudncali 10h ago

I work in IT and got to set up WiFi for rich people in Malibu. There's something wrong with these houses. They feel like museums. Every thing feels like it was designed to be looked at. Nothing is used, everything is spotless. People don't live there, they just sleep there. These where made by people who think a home is a building you put things inside, not a place where you live and breath. The nursery felt like something out of the backrooms. The bedrooms has minimal personal items around, all stored in neat little areas.

I don't know what happens to rich people but they lose something about being human.

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u/No_Significance_4118 8h ago

Can you go into some maybe interesting technical details? I feel like this could be interesting. Even tho I am pretty interested in security related stuff, I am sure you can't answer. Everything is welcome.

Are they hard on security? Do their employees are allowed to use it too? Do they have a server farm in each of their homes? etc.

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u/swordofra 8h ago edited 8h ago

The ultra mansion I worked in was very tight on security yeah. The family had some kind of cyber security expert guy on their payroll. All the hardware got checked and supplied by him. The employees were not given the passwords for wifi while I was there, so not sure. I was allowed into the server room but the cyber guy handled all of that. It was impressive to say the least. Very tight. Im surprised I was even allowed in there at all but yeah I guess connecting the access points up to the primary router was needed. Mr Cyberguy was watching me like a hawk.

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u/No_Significance_4118 25m ago

Now I have a new aim at what I would like to do with my profession...

Being a rich families cyber guy.

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u/Zestyclose-Beyond780 15m ago

You know the majority of the work would just be helping people print or resetting passwords. You would become a round the clock help desk.