tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056148691676157343.post5995266309793168625..comments2023-06-27T15:12:25.407+01:00Comments on Woolgar Electrical: The debate on personal data and civil rights (off topic – a lil bit)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581390711240133586noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3056148691676157343.post-58305429135932834392013-06-19T11:59:21.966+01:002013-06-19T11:59:21.966+01:00Follow up
4 plots a year
US surveillance foiled ...Follow up <br /><br />4 plots a year<br />US surveillance foiled 50 plots, says spy chief Alexander National Security Agency director Gen Keith Alexander on Capitol Hill in Washington on 18 June 2013 It was the NSA chief's second visit to Congress since the snooping programmes emerged Continue reading the main story <br /><br />We still have a few questions on cost viability here, firstly that number is since 2001, but forgive me if I am wrong but didn’t start in 2006 onwards (The New York Times disclosed the existence of this effort in 2005. In 2006, former AT&T technician Mark Klein revealed that the company had allowed the NSA) – so that’s <br />4 ‘plots’ a year.<br /><br />Microsoft, some call it "Hoovering" — not after the vacuum cleaner, but after J. Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director, who gathered dirt on countless people.<br /><br />This frenetic, manual process was the forerunner to Prism, the recently revealed highly classified National Security Agency program that seizes records from Internet companies. As laws changed and technology improved, the government and industry moved toward a streamlined, electronic process, which required less time from the companies and provided the government data in a more standard format.<br /><br /> Since at least the early 1970s, the NSA has been tapping foreign cables. It doesn't need permission. Under civil rights, it should do, but that’s is how it perceives its job.<br /><br />So let’s get back to 4 plots a year and the costs of the data centre are alleged to be $20 million.<br /><br />A figure of $20 million sound like an accountant has been tampering with the figures. It’s a 1 million square foot data centre, but comparison the energy bill alone will be around $40 million per year (excluding 6% energy tax, we presume the govt would advocate paying taxes = $2.4 million) . So it looks like it time to sack the accountant. If we say energy costs are 10% of running costs, the annual bill is $400 million = $100 million per plot excluding the $1.5 billion construction costs<br /><br />And the accountant may have forgotten ‘section 702’ – that says Google, Facebook and the other 10+ companies can expect compensating for their troubles.<br /><br />Beware the humble contractor <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581390711240133586noreply@blogger.com