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This. Eventually all sensitive data becomes concentrated enough that it becomes leakable material
by vmoore 5y ago
This. Eventually all sensitive data becomes concentrated enough that it becomes leakable material
- deadalus 5y agoUsually by an insider.
- sneak 5y agoThe main databases the NSA has are far too large to be easily leaked. Even blueleaks was <1T (~300GB iirc) and many people had trouble downloading it. I am sure many IC databases are several hundreds or thousands of times larger even without indices. It's not like you could just throw up a 4000TB torrent for a 7z of all of the north american phone call metadata for last year.
- nonameiguess 5y agoWhen I worked on the main NRO ground processing station for electro-optical collections, we were generating double-digit petabytes daily, and that back in 2008. Don't even know what it's up to now. Not only is there no practical way for anyone other than maybe Google or CERN to download that much data, unlike the no-fly list, actual classified information isn't attached to any networks that can be accessed from outside of a secure facility. This means the only way to egress data is for an inside threat to copy it onto USB drives or possibly optical media, maybe steal hard drives. But there are pretty hard limits to what you can just bulk copy. It can't be much more than a person can hide in a bag.
- rsbrans 5y agoI have a feeling this post may be agedlikemilk worthy in the not so distant future...
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoGlad to see that CERN was mentioned, it is not that often that their IT resources are known (and they are huge)
- novok 5y agoIn a really bad situation, couldn't someone make a hard Ethernet link to something connected to the public internet? I wouldn't be surprised if some other non-us government or 5 has already established this kind of stuff. The amount of computers accessing the classified info intranet would be very, very large I would imagine, such that a few modified computers here and there would go virtually undetected. Just look at all the classified crap abandoned at Afghanistan for example.
- cryptonector 5y agoDouble digits PB/d is way more than 10Gb/s. 10Gb/s is about 100TB/d, so off by two or so orders of magnitude. So, OK you say, let's bond 100Gb/s links or something, but you need machines that can do that, too, and now you can download one copy of one day, per day, of data -- maybe, plus you need all that storage for that one very very vulnerable copy. Can't be done. Big data is hard to deal with. You can't just download the stuff.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoA single tiny SD card can store 1TB, so I fail to see how anyone who is in the business to abuse people's data for profit would be troubled. Sure, they can't download the entire database, but a 10 - 100 TB sample of that would fit on a normal desktop and enable anyone to commit massive identity theft and credit card fraud.
- waynesonfire 5y agosounds like a use case for the BLOCKCHAIN!