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Data 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 t
by Synaesthesia 6y ago
Data 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.
- samstave 6y agoscale of the infra cost... (the lifetime of a single person cost NxBACKUPS tapes...) Edit: but i like your discourse
- samstave 6y agothe problem I see, some entitity will dev an algo that will extrapolate between frames using corrolated data from even yet other users' info so you subject-A at frame 0 then you have suject-A at frame 100 but no data from subject-A between - but you have data from subjects-b-------------j and can track subject-A in such.... extrap, and you have the "zoom and enhance" of surv....