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Loveliest part was the part right before that: “Just let me geek out for a second” Absolutely IBM storage person, the more geeking out the better!
by VoxPelli 6y ago
Loveliest part was the part right before that:
“Just let me geek out for a second”
Absolutely IBM storage person, the more geeking out the better!
- samstave 6y ago"Let me just surveillance out for a second" Guess where this will have the biggest impact in the next decade - the long term storage of billions of personally invading surveillance data points forever... Seriously, this tech will be abused. Against everyone. Facial recognition much? Zoom data? TikTok Data in a very compact physical form-factor? Utah and China will LOVE this!
- Synaesthesia 6y agoData storage is already so cheap thanks to HDDs that a poor African country can afford to spy on its population. This will hardly change anything. If we want to do something about it we have to revolt in the streets.
- ddingus 6y agoThe tape may well be the better scenario. With a pile of random access devices, the time and cost of a single record retrieve is low, though the cost of bulk records can get high. All the oppressors need is a half decade window, maybe a decade to be pretty much golden, as far as totalitarianism goes. The tape will definitely hold the data, and then some apparently. But access costs go up. The drives seem to encourage indiscriminate targeting. Tapes would at least favor some priority. The smarter bears will use both! You are not wrong about what it will take.
- cm2187 6y agoIn a world where we hold people accountable for stupid things they did or said when they were teenagers, I can see a lot of blackmail value in retaining data for a much longer period of time.
- ddingus 6y agoIt is all bad, agreed. Was just musing over kinds of evil more than anything else.
- adrian_b 6y agoHDDs are fine for short term storage, but they are too unreliable when you want to keep the data for many years, possibly for a lifetime. Unfortunately, currently there is no other commercially available method of archival storage, except magnetic tapes. Optical storage has a too low density to be able to compete with magnetic tapes.
- Dylan16807 6y agoThat presumes you're putting the data in cold storage somewhere. For data that's being kept accessible, the reliability of a hard drive doesn't matter. It's transferred from RAID to RAID over time. And spy data is probably in warm storage.
- samstave 6y agoNope.
- Dylan16807 6y agoHelp me out here; which part are you saying nope to?
- samstave 6y agoArchival... Imagine saving BILLIONS of [data points](face,interactions,vids,text,etc) per person on hot or warm? NOPE Life history will be on tape in the archives of such...
- Dylan16807 6y agoExcept for videos, that doesn't take up a lot of space. The oppressive part is tracking everywhere you go and everything you say, which fits easily into warm storage. For example, storing your position every 20 seconds might take 10KB a day. You'll collect 15 million data points in a decade, but each one is only a few bytes.
- anonytrary 6y agoCan someone explain the Utah reference?
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- taneliv 6y agoFrom Wikipedia[1]: > The Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger. Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), though its precise mission is classified. The National Security Agency (NSA) leads operations at the facility as the executive agent for the Director of National Intelligence. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center