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Step 0: Acquire at least ~1PB of storage to store all the data.

by Veratyr 9y ago

toomuchtodo 9y ago
I have over 1PB of storage at my disposal.
- Veratyr 9y ago
  Business or personal? It's doable but it's a lot of money to buy all those drives.
  - boulos 9y ago
    $6k for 600T fully assembled backblaze storage pod: https://www.backuppods.com https://www.backuppods.com (no affiliation, just pointing out that ~$12k isn't a massive amount).
    - noisem4ker 9y ago
      Note that hard drives are not included. 1000TB / 8TB = 125 HDDs 125 * $200 = $25k
      - boulos 9y ago
        Aww! Damn my quick posting (and too good to be true!). Thanks.
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    Personal.
nickpsecurity 9y ago
It's in the supercomputing center. How aboug I modify it where a filterimg step is run deleting everything that doesn't match on desired image festures?
- Veratyr 9y ago
  > Step 3: Move it off of there when traffic is low or overnight if system doesn't go offline overnight. Where are you moving it to? You think that even if you manage to hack into a "supercomputing center" that nobody's going to notice 1PB of storage filled with GIFs?
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    Having worked in a supercomputing center for a detector at the LHC, yeah, you could probably get away with storing a few hundred TBs for a short period of time without anyone noticing or caring. A whole petabyte might be pushing it.
    - nickpsecurity 9y ago
      And I learned about it from you people. All of them said security was lax. Most of them said they personally were using the supercomputer for their own stuff at some point.
      - toomuchtodo 9y ago
        What's this "you people" bub? :) in this case, it's not a security issue, it's a resource accounting issue.
        nickpsecurity 9y ago
        People working in and around HPC centers. Obviously. :) And no, it's both accounting and security issue. One guy I know who does security in ASIC's that stole HPC time in the past did it by modifying the accounting system to not show his jobs. It was easy as it wasnt designed to stop accounting fraud by hackers.

Step 0: Acquire at least ~1PB of storage to store all the data.

toomuchtodo 9y ago

I have over 1PB of storage at my disposal.

Veratyr 9y ago
Business or personal? It's doable but it's a lot of money to buy all those drives.
- boulos 9y ago
  $6k for 600T fully assembled backblaze storage pod: https://www.backuppods.com https://www.backuppods.com (no affiliation, just pointing out that ~$12k isn't a massive amount).
  - noisem4ker 9y ago
    Note that hard drives are not included. 1000TB / 8TB = 125 HDDs 125 * $200 = $25k
    - boulos 9y ago
      Aww! Damn my quick posting (and too good to be true!). Thanks.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  Personal.

nickpsecurity 9y ago

It's in the supercomputing center. How aboug I modify it where a filterimg step is run deleting everything that doesn't match on desired image festures?

Veratyr 9y ago
> Step 3: Move it off of there when traffic is low or overnight if system doesn't go offline overnight. Where are you moving it to? You think that even if you manage to hack into a "supercomputing center" that nobody's going to notice 1PB of storage filled with GIFs?
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  Having worked in a supercomputing center for a detector at the LHC, yeah, you could probably get away with storing a few hundred TBs for a short period of time without anyone noticing or caring. A whole petabyte might be pushing it.
  - nickpsecurity 9y ago
    And I learned about it from you people. All of them said security was lax. Most of them said they personally were using the supercomputer for their own stuff at some point.
    - toomuchtodo 9y ago
      What's this "you people" bub? :) in this case, it's not a security issue, it's a resource accounting issue.
      - nickpsecurity 9y ago
        People working in and around HPC centers. Obviously. :) And no, it's both accounting and security issue. One guy I know who does security in ASIC's that stole HPC time in the past did it by modifying the accounting system to not show his jobs. It was easy as it wasnt designed to stop accounting fraud by hackers.