On 09/09/2013 08:29 AM, Thomas Nail wrote: -snip- > I totally believe that the NSA has and will continue to have significant > eavesdropping and signals counter-intelligence capacity, including systems > cracking and other nefarious measures. Intercepts have happened and will > continue to happen. However, I think that the capabilities of this > organization are being overblown in order to prop up it's own reputation > and to spread FUD amongst it's enemies (a very good strategy for a spying > agency, IMHO). Just looking at the logistical problems of routing and > storing that much data - never mind doing any sort of real-time processing > on it - makes me think that the grey hats might be exaggerating a bit for > their target audience. That, and to sell more news stories...
Tom, See: The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store extremely large amounts of data, estimated to be on the order of exabytes or higher. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center -- Mike Noyes http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes https://plus.google.com/113364780158082152468 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
