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And this is relevant to what?
by adamdavis 13y ago
And this is relevant to what?
- thrownaway2424 13y agoIt's relevant because some of the things that are being suggested here on HN are clearly infeasible, from an infrastructure standpoint.
- adamdavis 13y agoWord. I get that. I just thought the question sort of steered away from the main point of the parent comment, which was that if Google did have some sort of nefarious partnership that they would be legally obliged to deny it no matter what. My apologies, I'm probably just being a bit nitpicky.
- Finster 13y agoO RLY? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
- minwcnt5 13y agoI think his point is it would be extremely expensive. The leaked presentation claimed the cost of PRISM was only $20M.
- akiselev 13y agoPRISM is clearly not the whole picture. The Utah Data Center alone is much more than $20M a year and PRISM's specified purpose was using US IT infrastructure to intercept foreign communications, which would presumably be filtered from a large data set. The bulk of the data transmission and storage costs are probably under another budget