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Is that actually feasible with their budget? If we are generous and assume there a zettabyte of data a year that they want to store. At consumer prices, you w
by sebzim4500 2y ago
Is that actually feasible with their budget?
If we are generous and assume there a zettabyte of data a year that they want to store.
At consumer prices, you would have to pay $10B per year just buying hard drives yet alone the operational costs/redundancy.
The budget for all of the US intelligence services is ~$65B. I think if they wanted to actually do what you are describing it would be the single biggest intelligence expense they have and I don't see how you hide that.
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- choilive 2y agoIts not. They don't store the raw IP packet data, instead they store the metadata (this was revealed in a leak a long time ago), like the type in this article (data source and destination, timestamps, size of the data, etc.) the metadata is orders of magnitude less data than the raw packets and likely easily compressible, so I wouldn't be surprised if they keep it all for a decent chunk of time.
- sebzim4500 2y agoPresumably this becomes increasingly useless in an eSNI world? i.e. they can prove I visited a bunch of cloudflare sites, but there are millions of those so who cares?