5 zettabytes of data at Buffdale

[Core Imposter]

This probably ought to be discussed. I'll just quote a part of this and see if anyone is interested. Click the link.

RT: And it’s not just about those, who could be planning, who could be a threat to national security, but also those, who could be just…

WB: It’s everybody. The Naris device if it takes in the entire line, so it takes in all the data. In fact they advertised they can process the lines at session rates, which means 10 gigabit lines. I forgot the name of the device (it’s not the Naris) – the other one does it at 10 gigabits. That’s why the building Buffdale, because they have to have more storage, because they can’t figure out what’s important, so they are just storing everything there. So, e-mails are going to be stored there for the future, but right now stored in different places around the country. But it is being collected – and the FBI has access to it.


http://rt.com/usa/news/surveillance-spying-e-mail-citizens-178/

 

[History_Buff]

If they figure out how to meaningfully sort any of that data, we'll have bigger problems (also sweeter computers).

 

[Core Imposter]

If they figure out how to meaningfully sort any of that data, we'll have bigger problems (also sweeter computers).

The whistleblower thinks they have a handle on it. In the sense they can take a name and affix atributes and retrieve everything.

 

[History_Buff]

That’s why the building Buffdale, because they have to have more storage, because they can’t figure out what’s important, so they are just storing everything there.

I don't think you understand how much 5 zettabytes is.

 

[emzie]

5 zettabytes would be larger than the combined storage capacity of the rest of the world. Colour me skeptical.

 

[Skwink]

I was going to buy a computer but it only had two zettabytes of data so I passed on it.

EDIT: Did you know that the next biggest data unit is named after Yoda from Star Wars?

 

[History_Buff]

It so is not.

 

[Skwink]

It so is not.

I don't really think you're qualified to be making such statements.

 

[History_Buff]

I know my metric sir. That is greek. Unless you're proposing that the "long time ago" of Star Wars was referring to ancient Greece of course. That I cannot easily refute.

 

[Skwink]

I know my metric sir. That is greek. Unless you're proposing that the "long time ago" of Star Wars was referring to ancient Greece of course. That I cannot easily refute.

Yoda had a Greek cousin.

 

[JollyRoger]

If you've got nthing to hide, this shouldn't worry you. /busheratalkingpoint

If you've go something to hide, you've got 5 zettabytes to hide it in. /obamaeratalkingpoint

 

[kochman]

Was this created before or after I posted about it MC?

I didn't see it... but I was in a paranoid rage and could have missed an aircraft carrier flying by my office window.

 

[kochman]

If they figure out how to meaningfully sort any of that data, we'll have bigger problems (also sweeter computers).

Search function?

 

[dutchfire]

Search function?

I'm glad our watch dog is so computer literate.

 

[Borachio]

If anyone takes any time looking at an e-mail, or any internet activity, of mine, they're wasting their time.

 

[kochman]

Oh, no big deal then... so long as you have nothing to hide, your privacy is assured!

 

[JollyRoger]

Oh, no big deal then... so long as you have nothing to hide, your privacy is assured!

So I assume you will be joining me on the Russ Feingold 2016 bandwagon. After all, he was the only Senator brave enough to vote against the Patriot Act shortly after 9/11.

 

[Borachio]

so long as you have nothing to hide, your privacy is assured!

Not at all. If I have something to hide, I don't use the internet to hide it in. It's a public place.

 

[dutchfire]

Hide it in plain sight, they will never look there. Like every time I have lost my hat, I'm already wearing it.

 

[Borachio]

Shhh! Don't tell the world that. It's meant to be a secret.