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A somewhat more informative article here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14555238/nsa-leak-indictment-harold-thomas-martin-20-charges http://www.theverge.com

by rl3 10y ago

A somewhat more informative article here: http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14555238/nsa-leak-indictment-harold-thomas-martin-20-charges http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/8/14555238/nsa-leak-indictmen... 50TB is a lot for a single person. How the heck did he even store it all? The article mentions no motive. Without knowing all the facts, it almost seems like it was some sort of irrational compulsion.

ekianjo 10y ago
it says up to 50tb. knowing the sense of hyperbole of government agencies the reality is probably ten times less.
- CamperBob2 10y ago
  Cop bytes.
  - zkms 10y ago
    cop bytes, is that the same thing as when police exaggerate "street value" of seized drugs
    - 5ilv3r 10y ago
      So 5 street terabytes?
  - jarboot 10y ago
    good word!
  - drvdevd 10y ago
    "Perp stole 50CB of classified data. Hear he was all hopped up something they're calling 'Heap Spray'"
- acqq 10y ago
  And even more probably most of the data are duplicates or even more probably non-classified data or even empty space on the media they've seized: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3149446/United-States-v-Harold-T-Martin-III.txt https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3149446/United-St... "GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR A DETENTION HEARING:" "A conservative estimate of the volume of the digital information seized from the Defendant is approximately 50,000 gigabytes. This information must be fully reviewed by appropriate authorities to determine its source and classification level, as well as the extent to which it constitutes “national defense information.”" If he's indeed a digital hoarder, and it's still open if it even "constitutes national defense information" it can be anything, even counting his Blu-rays with movies?
jlgaddis 10y ago
> 50TB is a lot for a single person. How the hell did he even store it all? I've got half that in a single 2U rackmount server -- my own -- in the data center and, relatively speaking, that's not really that much.

by rl3 10y ago

ekianjo 10y ago

it says up to 50tb. knowing the sense of hyperbole of government agencies the reality is probably ten times less.

CamperBob2 10y ago
Cop bytes.
- zkms 10y ago
  cop bytes, is that the same thing as when police exaggerate "street value" of seized drugs
  - 5ilv3r 10y ago
    So 5 street terabytes?
- jarboot 10y ago
  good word!
- drvdevd 10y ago
  "Perp stole 50CB of classified data. Hear he was all hopped up something they're calling 'Heap Spray'"
acqq 10y ago
And even more probably most of the data are duplicates or even more probably non-classified data or even empty space on the media they've seized: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3149446/United-States-v-Harold-T-Martin-III.txt https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3149446/United-St... "GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR A DETENTION HEARING:" "A conservative estimate of the volume of the digital information seized from the Defendant is approximately 50,000 gigabytes. This information must be fully reviewed by appropriate authorities to determine its source and classification level, as well as the extent to which it constitutes “national defense information.”" If he's indeed a digital hoarder, and it's still open if it even "constitutes national defense information" it can be anything, even counting his Blu-rays with movies?

jlgaddis 10y ago

> 50TB is a lot for a single person. How the hell did he even store it all? I've got half that in a single 2U rackmount server -- my own -- in the data center and, relatively speaking, that's not really that much.