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		a2d9s22 on July 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Snowden releases information about Australian Inte... I know, i did the numbers too - but it's still an almost unthinkable amount of data to try and make sense of. If we conservatively say that there are 5 others like linx, that's nearly half a million 3TB drives. And that's only for 3 days! edit: clarity

Zigurd on July 8, 2013 [–]

> but it's still an almost unthinkable amount of data to try and make sense of.

It's only money, and compared with keeping a division supplied in Afghanistan or putting an enormous reconnaissance satellite in space, it's an obvious winner in the minds of the people running the security apparatus.

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