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The NSA Data Center

Bob Maxey

Bob Maxey

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I thought I would create a thread to discuss the new data center being built right here in Utah. Brought to you by the NSA.

Not sure how many people underastand what the NSA is doing and wants to do, but the numbers are staggering when one puts them into perspective.

For example, it will move yottabytes of data and it is said this data center will be even bigger as plans move forward. A yottabyte is 1000000000000000000000000bytes, a very large number.

1 yottabyte = 1 trillion terabytes, or 1 quadrillion gigabytes. I understand these large numbers, but I am still amazed.

I found this and I think it is quite interesting:

"To store a yottabyte on terabyte sized hard drives would
require a million city block size data-centers, as big as the
states of Delaware and Rhode Island."

Basically, the DC will look at everything we do.

In my view, it represents a potential problem, but I am not sure what that is.

Any comments?
 
Look on the brightside, no need to introduce yourself to the folks who come to work there: they'll know ALL about you :D

Plus, you should never have to heat your home again - with all that hardware, Utah's going to be as warm as the Bahamas.
 
SiempreTuna said:
Look on the brightside, no need to introduce yourself to the folks who come to work there: they'll know ALL about you :D

Plus, you should never have to heat your home again - with all that hardware, Utah's going to be as warm as the Bahamas.
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My brother says it will be well cooled. I say, it had better be well cooled.

Good news: the NSA is building other data centers, too. Perhaps they could put a data center in each of those abandoned 7-11 stores nationwide?

Whew . . for a moment, I thought they might be slacking off.

At least there is this: "GEN Alexander emphasized. Like all of NSA's activities, he added, the center's work will be grounded in an adherence to the U.S. Constitution and compliance with U.S. laws and regulations that govern the Intelligence Community."
 
That's a tremendous data center. Guess I won't be out of Guantanamo Bay for much longer. Not that I've ever kept my anti-big brother views a secret, they've always been out in the open, so I don't have much more to be worried about than I always have.

EDIT: Wikipedia has some info, don't know how legit it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
 
ElasticNinja said:
That's where they fraudulate the global warmings with the lizard jews isn't it? :p
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That is where They and Them live. You have heard of those people, right? They seem to know everything except for Them who know the rest.

They have a house right next to Pat Pending, the inventor.

I think the NSA is being surprisingly open when they talk about the DC. Perhaps I am reading too much into their open and honest nature, but I thought the NSA would never discuss their operations.
 
Bob Maxey said:
That is where They and Them live. You have heard of those people, right? They seem to know everything except for Them who know the rest.

They have a house right next to Pat Pending, the inventor.

I think the NSA is being surprisingly open when they talk about the DC. Perhaps I am reading too much into their open and honest nature, but I thought the NSA would never discuss their operations.
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It's that they're discussing this that has me worried. It makes me wonder if they're trying to keep the lid on something else, perhaps?
 
ItnStln511 said:
It's that they're discussing this that has me worried. It makes me wonder if they're trying to keep the lid on something else, perhaps?
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You are not the first one to suggest that. Remember, they could be watching. Rather they ARE watching. Like Santa Clause.
 
Bob Maxey said:
I think the NSA is being surprisingly open when they talk about the DC. Perhaps I am reading too much into their open and honest nature, but I thought the NSA would never discuss their operations.
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My take: it would be impossible to keep a development that vast secret so why try?

I'm guessing that once the centre's operational, details of what they're doing will be very much more difficult to come by ;)
 
SiempreTuna said:
My take: it would be impossible to keep a development that vast secret so why try?

I'm guessing that once the centre's operational, details of what they're doing will be very much more difficult to come by ;)
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I just started reading a history of the NSA. They have kept many things more or less a secret and even if people know about something, it really does not mean they actually know something.
 
Security people seem to think it's important. I did some work on police intelligence systems and one large element of what they're used for is identifying links between suspected criminals, phone numbers, addresses, vehicles etc.

I guess if you're going to target a criminal or terrorist plot, you kinda need to identify who might be involved and how and where you might find them :D
 
Sorry for bumping up an old thread... But our understanding of what they can do with it has changed over the last couple of years, post Snowdon/Manning/Wikileaks etc....


If you were against this based on the fact that you didn't trust the people overseeing its operation, has it suddenly become a good thing overnight?

If you were for it before, are you confident that the new adminstration will ensure that the work is still " grounded in an adherence to the U.S. Constitution and compliance with U.S. laws and regulations that govern the Intelligence Community."?


In short... should we still be worried, or re-assured?
 
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