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Each of those companies needs enough hardware to handle their highest expected loads. But most of the time, they aren't near their peak needs, leaving a lot of
by mabbo 10y ago
Each of those companies needs enough hardware to handle their highest expected loads. But most of the time, they aren't near their peak needs, leaving a lot of hosts sitting idle.
AWS and other cloud providers face the same situation, but to another order of magnitude.
These leftovers would be enough to match what the NSA has.
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- robotresearcher 10y agoHow do you know?
- iamthepieman 10y agoThis is not true
- petre 10y ago> These leftovers would be enough to match what the NSA has. They still need power to run theese, space to store them. All of that costs money. Why woold a private org break crypto if it has nothing to gain from it? And besides, people willingly give their data to Google, Facebook, Amazon. Why would theese orgs need to crack anything at all?
- clort 10y ago> All of that costs money. They have money http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/11/technology/overseas-cash-tech/ (Your other points may or may not be valid)
- mabbo 10y agoYou're missing the point- the hosts are already there, powered but sitting idle. They are the reserve computing capacity. They must be there for when load increases. This is why AWS exists, because Amazon needed to have 4X capacity on cyber Monday, but not the rest of the year. I'm not saying there is any benefit to google cracking VPNs, but simply that they could, that they are an organization with enough hardware to do it.
- blackflame7000 10y agoI think you are forgetting the fact that your standard run of the mill xeons and tesla's in a typical server farm are still far slower than custom hardware accelerated circuits with no clock rate specifically designed for cracking a specific encryption system. There isn't really a justifiable commercial reason to need them on that scale at present.