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>Imagine this: authorities confiscate anything that looks like storage media, storage capacity rough order of magnitude is calculated, figures reported to media

by Laforet 10y ago

>Imagine this: authorities confiscate anything that looks like storage media, storage capacity rough order of magnitude is calculated, figures reported to media, an assumption is made that it's all highly classified, spin some click bait article. I was thinking along the lines of “50 terabytes of data seized, some of which may be stolen classified info”, but I agree that your version of events are more likely.

metaphor 10y ago
> ...your version of events are more likely. Is it really though? Probable? Sure, of course without any quantitative measure. Likely? I simply can't convince myself of that given we know absolutely nothing of the security measures this guy had to overcome to exfiltrate the data he had.