A line from Michael Connelly's (excellent) book "The Scarecrow":
"…Mr. McGinnis would design and build a facility with the highest level of security in order to meet compliance demands for hosting HIPPA, SOCKS, and S-A-S Seventy.
I'd learned my lesson [referring to an earlier gaffe not knowing what dark fiber was]. This time I just nodded as if I knew exactly what she was talking about."
Sounds like that might have been what Connelly did, too. 