• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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      11 days ago

      Not to mention the logistics of transferring that much data alone. You need a high enough network speed to snag it all before being caught.

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        If you were using 1tb micro SD cards you could fit them in a briefcase or two. It’d only cost $2 million at retail value of $200/card.

        • AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          $200/card? What are those, legitimate western numbers?/s You can find “2TB” SD cards on AliExpress/etc for $3. Increasing the capacity to 1PT shouldn’t be much more than a minor change in the firmware.

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      That may be uncompressed (and text and similar data compress really well).

      Otherwise my bigger question is how did they transfer 10PB with no one noticing

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        how did they transfer 10PB with no one noticing

        Siphoning. Really slowly.

        Tricked it out. Naw mean?

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        Just imagine the number of PUTs. I’ll bet it was mostly 100kb log files too. Them hackers gonna wish they never rsync’d that one. lmao

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m guessing that they wouldn’t actually store that amount of data. Probably processing it on the fly and discarding a majority of it.

      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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        Maybe… or they could run up a credit card and bounce on the bill. The guy wasn’t asking for a lot of money, which indicates to me that they either want finances fast or they want to wash their hands fast.

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      10 days ago

      Maybe on one of those drives that fake their size and at some point begin overwriting previous data. Metadata still there, but content of earlier files completely corrupt. /s