The "yottabyte" estimate is absurd, but individual scientific computing centers have about half an exabyte of storage, so the NSA wouldn't have the slightest tr

The "yottabyte" estimate is absurd, but individual scientific computing centers have about half an exabyte of storage, so the NSA wouldn't have the slightest trouble storing a few exabytes (some GBs per person per year). In contrast, total IP traffic is in the tens of exabytes per month [1], but much of it is re-transmission of content such as movies, that the NSA is not interested in storing. I wonder what sort of steganography detection they have in place. [1] http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/...