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I think it wasn't 500M pages, but 50TB of data; for some reason the press (or whoever is feeding them) is really set on demonizing this guy and making him sound

I think it wasn't 500M pages, but 50TB of data; for some reason the press (or whoever is feeding them) is really set on demonizing this guy and making him sound as sketchy as possible. See this discussion from a couple weeks ago where HN decided Martin was basically an eccentric guy who liked to take his work home. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12645210

rurban 10y ago
It was never written that he actually stole 50TB if data, only that they found several hard drives, computers, backups they need to investigate. If he was for example a movie or music collector, there wouldn't much room on these drives for actual stolen data. 50TB (a few hard drives worth of data) looks very sensationalistic, but is most likely not. Code is not big.
- matheweis 10y ago
  I think we are saying the same thing. The court filing specifically noted "investigators seized thousands of pages of documents and dozens of computers and other digital storage devices and media containing, conservatively, fifty terabytes of information". It doesn't say whether that 50TB was all classified govt docs or just that they seized his personal computing equipment to investigate whether it contained any classified data. My point was that nowhere does it say 500M pages of documents; the press seems to have conflated the 50TB to mean approximately 500M pages (which sounds even bigger).