The National Security Agency wants to store a YOTTABYTE of Your calls, Emails, etc.
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[QUOTE]In Utah, the National Security Agency is building a $2 billion storage facility that will house and analyze all forms of electronic communication...a potential yottabyte of everyone's (formerly) personal data. So how big is a yottabyte? CrunchGear puts it well:
There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. In other words,[B] a yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB.[/B]
In terms of data on current human scales, a yottabyte is nearly infinite (though I'm sure the NSA will manage to fill the thing in like 2 weeks, and iPods will come with yottabytes in just a few months).
To be fair, the yottabyte figure is just one estimate generated by a Pentagon think tank. The facility could hold a mere hundreds of petabytes. But either way, the prospect is as unsustainable as it is frightening. This one facility will burn through as much electricity as the entirety of Salt Lake City.
All of this data comes from the book The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid. And while the paranoid among you may read it, [B]I, MARK WILSON, HAVE NO REASON TO FEAR THE NSA'S INVOLVEMENT IN MY LIFE OR INFORMATION AT ALL.[/B][/QUOTE]
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a billion gb holy
More than a billion sir
I think it's Quadrillion GB's
holy fuck that's alot of data
That's just for the porn.
So, they could basically download the entire internet.
Daily.
So thats enough porn to give every male on earth, even gays, about 100 years each of nonstop fapping.
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[QUOTE=Wii60;18152253]More than a billion sir
I think it's Quadrillion GB's[/QUOTE]
It's a british billion.
I never heard of a british billion before
[QUOTE=Wii60;18152253]More than a billion sir
I think it's Quadrillion GB's[/QUOTE]
it appears i have been using the outdated long scale
Yotta is a prefix for 10^24. So 10^24 bytes.
This is 6 orders of magnitude bigger than the internet. Last I checked it was 5 exabytes or something.
Edit: Apparently [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte]every human word ever spoken stored as audio can fit in 42 exabytes so this is overkill[/url]
[QUOTE=Wii60;18152412]I never heard of a british billion before[/QUOTE]
wiki says it was abandoned in 1974 and britain uses the short scale now
Wow a quadrillion GB's.
This can't be real. It goes against our right to privacy.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;18152639]This can't be real. It goes against our right to privacy.[/QUOTE]
Hahaha that just about went away with FISA
[QUOTE=Athena;18152449]Yotta is a prefix for 10^24. So 10^24 bytes.
This is 6 orders of magnitude bigger than the internet. Last I checked it was 5 exabytes or something.
Edit: Apparently [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte]every human word ever spoken stored as audio can fit in 42 exabytes so this is overkill[/url][/QUOTE]
better compress it as a .wav to save some space
fuck that's alot of porn
I want that for my pc
That's more space than I have in my brain :crying:
A lot of sexy calls and emails are gonna be recorded.
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[QUOTE=windwakr;18152959]Lets just see how good they are watching.
Bomb. Laptop. Airplane. President. Pee. Assassination. Gun. Poop. White House. Washington D.C. Terrorist. Train. Shit. Plans. Bacon.
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there is a list full of those words you know
Hope they have a back-up to it if it crashes :P Think how long it would take to recover 1 yottabyte of data on a normal computer xD
And it would use as much electricity as Salt Lake City, which is a red light for enviromentalists
I wondered when anyone would seriously start using the yotta- prefix.
good thing I don't live in the U.S
[QUOTE=windwakr;18153044]Where? While I wait, I'll search wikileaks.[/QUOTE]
it's somewhere on the internet but i forgot where
Yeah, because we don't want you.
I need to get my hands on this to store my Dwarf Fortress saves.
What's his source, crystal meth?
This is ridiculous, they'll have to scale it down when the IT guys realize just how much overkill this is.
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