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New leak: NSA storing contents of 1 Billion cellphone calls per day
- hannibal5 13y agoAverage cell phone call duration has decreased into less than 2 minutes. Assuming that NSA compresses the stream under 2kbit/s, they could store 1 Billion phone calls for a year using 10 Petabytes of storage.
- pvnick 13y agoIt's mind-boggling to fathom the storage capabilities of these systems. Then again, when $10 billion is a conservative estimate of the budget you've been given to do just this [1], it's a lot more realistic. [1] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillance-cost/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillanc...