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Archaic

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3. I just brought like $500K of storage online last week at work.

Reply to unrepentant progress (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 21, 2013, 12:52 AM

Apr 2013

It is highly available, and pretty quick.

But it is less than 50TB.

The FBI probably brought in 50TB of info this week in the Boston case. Now multiply that by thousands and you can see the scale of capital required to do this.

I wonder how long it is before Exxon or one of the big banks gets into data warehousing for this kind of thing. They've got spare cash laying around, and nobody in Washington that would say no to them.

(and if I just gave either of them a great idea, I'll self-immolate in the front yard)

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OK Glass, RIP Privacy: The Democratization Of Surveillance [View all] unrepentant progress Apr 2013 OP

Permanence. Archaic Apr 2013 #1

Exactly unrepentant progress Apr 2013 #2

I just brought like $500K of storage online last week at work. Archaic Apr 2013 #3

I agree with the author on at least one point: snot Apr 2013 #4