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The cost dynamics have flipped in the past decades. What we have now is "Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter" https://cacm.acm.org/practice/surveillance-too-cheap-t
by vaylian 2mo ago
The cost dynamics have flipped in the past decades. What we have now is "Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter" https://cacm.acm.org/practice/surveillance-too-cheap-to-meter/ https://cacm.acm.org/practice/surveillance-too-cheap-to-mete... Because storing data is cheaper and often economically more useful than not storing it.
- 20after4 2mo agoWith the price of memory skyrocketing, maybe that equation changes slightly.
- monster_truck 2mo agothe $/gb of storage is declining, which is more relevant here. The big boogeyman that noids have insisted on for the past ~30 years is that intel agencies are saving everything they can to try and decrypt it later. Thankfully for us, the rate at which internet traffic grows year over year massively outpaces the global production capacity of spinning rust. The last time I did this napkin math I think the collective global production was barely enough for some small fraction (maybe 1/8th or 1/12th) of everything. It isn't exactly something that can be done in secret. Everyone else has to buy hard drives too, there are only so many sources of raw materials, places that can refine them, etc E: I think the most relevant thing to avoid if this is a concern for you would be commercial VPNs. There's a reason fiveeyes doesn't want them to be banned. They can almost assuredly save piles of money by simply coercing providers into allowing them physical access to leverage side channel attacks
- xhkkffbf 2mo agoDeclining? Not when I try to price out 10tb drives. I'm sure the economics will catch up eventually, but anyone shopping for hard drives is getting a shock.
- monster_truck 2mo agoIt's 2026 dude, buy the 28tb drives.
- vardalab 2mo agoThat will be 1100 bucks, lol
- IncreasePosts 2mo ago$150 if you buy LTO-9 cassettes. Probably much cheaper when bulk purchased too
- m-p-3 2mo agoThe 10TB drives right now cost as much as the 20TB drives I bought a year and a half ago for my NAS.
- IncreasePosts 2mo agoNot to nitpick but the feds would be archiving this stuff on tape, which is 10x or more cheaper than hdds per TV when factoring in failure rates