This seems like a hugely un-necessary thing to do; I imagine the next headline on the news will be "NSA rescued from 2 square mile apartment filled with 8000 ca

This seems like a hugely un-necessary thing to do; I imagine the next headline on the news will be "NSA rescued from 2 square mile apartment filled with 8000 cats and pizza boxes to the ceiling". I honestly can't think of any technology that is stable enough to support this magnitude of long term storage. Dealing with the amount of bit rot alone leads me to boggle at the notion.