NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository

Re:NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah mega... by joubert on Sunday November 01, 2009 @11:21PM (#916122)

Depending on your goal, one doesn't need to store every single frame of a video in order to capture its plot.

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Re:NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah mega... by emmett on Sunday November 01, 2009 @11:27PM (#916137)

Right, definitely not, but this is leaving aside all the other kinds of data you might want to save, and there's a lot of that too. I'm just pointing out that the quantity of hours we're talking about is not nearly as absurd as you'd think at first.

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Re:NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah mega... by Devilboy on Sunday November 01, 2009 @11:55PM (#916182)

But clearly they want to track everyone and everything everywhere. Scares the crap out of me.

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