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>it's a marvellous technical achievement Not trying to argue for the sake of it here, but _is_ that a huge achievement? I assumed this was a simple device that
by ciarannolan 6y ago
>it's a marvellous technical achievement
Not trying to argue for the sake of it here, but _is_ that a huge achievement? I assumed this was a simple device that splits the fiber beam, sending one part on it's way to AT&T and the other to some NSA database for further processing.
- forsakenharmony 6y agoWell at the speed the data comes in, you don't have time/space to store it all on disk (and just filling up also doesn't seem to beneficial for them) and also can't just double all traffic for sending it to the NSA So they have to filter a lot of data for interesting bits really fast before storing / sending it anywhere else
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- ciarannolan 6y agoInteresting, thanks.