[ExI] The NSA's new data center

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 02:28:05 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:54 AM, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com> wrote:
>> Or for a government to have a complete video record of a criminal's
>> incarceration. That is to say, to put an end to prison rape and other
>> extrajudicial consequences of prison.
>
> Suggest this to any actual prison warden, and they'll point out there's
> no way they'd have the budget for that.

However, video cameras and storage follow Moore's Law, and eventually
it will be so cheap that nobody can justify not doing it on a
financial basis.

This new data center is less than ten miles from my house. I had heard
only the lightest whispers of such a thing going in. There are a lot
of construction activities in the area right now, so it's not hard to
believe that it got lost in the noise.

-Kelly



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