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the NSA and GCHQ have way more than 550 employees and I guarantee that the remainder is not all just janitors, secretarial staff and management. This article a
by iamthepieman 13y ago
the NSA and GCHQ have way more than 550 employees and I guarantee that the remainder is not all just janitors, secretarial staff and management.
This article and most others have failed to mention the technological force-multipliers (the bread and butter of HN) that their developers, sysadmins, and other technologist are constantly working on.
With the right search capabilities and filtering that 21 million GB gets a lot smaller.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoBamford stated ~70,000 in the seventies in one of his books. The Wiki estimates 30,000. 550 is a comically low guess. We can get at a much larger guess than 550 merely by counting parking places at Ft. Meade, and that wouldn't include the many employees who don't work at Ft. Meade.