FBI gives first peek inside 22,000-square-foot town it’s built for digital crime training — the ‘one of a kind’ facility has a gas station, houses, and a data center with 200 hackable servers

• The FBI has built an entire town to help train its agents
• The town contains houses, businesses, and 200 hackable servers
• The idea is to give agents hands-on experience so they’re ready for the field

In the never-ending cat-and-mouse game between hackers and law enforcement, it helps the latter to know exactly what they’re up against. Usually, that might mean sitting in a classroom and getting a little hands-on time with a hacked server or laptop. But that’s not the case with the FBI’s Kinetic Cyber Range — no, this time the US’s Federal Bureau of Investigation went out and built a whole town to keep itself sharp.

The 22,000-square-foot Kinetic Cyber Rangeis built to be as lifelike as possible. Pay it a visit, and you’ll find 11 different facilities, including houses, a data center, a gaming arcade, a convenience store, a hotel, and much more. It’s designed to...

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