Kim Dotcom's Napkin Calculations on Cost of Surveillance Data Storage
Despite what you might think of him, these calculations are interesting: obviously Dotcom's got a lot of experience in the data storage space. If he's right, it's incredibly cheap - little wonder it's tempting for the authorities. Anyone got views on these figures?
/// Tweet 1 "Pay attention to my next two #NSA tweets! They will blow your mind. This is based on my own research & analyzing public data."
/// Tweet 2 #NSA spy cloud has 40+M hard drives & 150 exabyte of capacity. Enough to store all (US networked) emails, sms, calls & chats for 38000 days.
/// Tweet 3 The #NSA stores daily: 10B emails 500TB + 3B sms 500GB + 5B chatmsgs 1TB + 1.8B calls 2PB + misc 1PB at a daily cost of USD 550,000. CHEAP!
/// Tweet 4 The cost of a single F-35 U.S. fighter jet is equivalent to 278 days of total #NSA surveillance storage cost, capturing EVERYTHING.