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I recall some natural disaster in Thailand being blamed for a hard drive shortage at the time, when it ended up being the NSA buying them all up for their Utah
by colordrops 4y ago
I recall some natural disaster in Thailand being blamed for a hard drive shortage at the time, when it ended up being the NSA buying them all up for their Utah data center.
Edit: anyone downvoting want to comment on why this is implausible or not noteworthy to mention? It was a topic of discussion at the time.
- ReactiveJelly 4y agoSource? Would love to hear about this. I searched for "thailand hard drive shortage nsa" and only got... 2013 Nov, Backblaze's annual hard drive report still only blamed the flooding: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-and-1m-later/ https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a... 2015, Tech Power-Up has a story about NSA malware hidden in hard drive firmware: https://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoors-into-hard-drive-firmware?cp=5 https://www.techpowerup.com/209925/nsa-hides-spying-backdoor...
- colordrops 4y agoI don't recall where I heard it but found this in a quick search: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/li1pep/a_global_hard_drive_shortage_occurred_at_the_same/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/li1pep/a_global...