Re: NSA enhancing Linux security?

From: Bill Laut (wlgen_at_verizon.net)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:14:55 GMT

Skorpion (CET) wrote:

> On 27 Feb 2004, in news:7RU%b.3722$6K.1880@nwrddc02.gnilink.net, Bill
> Laut <wlgen@verizon.net> scrawled:
>
> [...]
>
> Whew...
>
> That is one serious "conspiracy theory" rant...
>
> Not to mention you are attributing the NSA with some really serious
> hardware and data storage capabilities...
>
> That's some bitchin' hard disk they have there.
>

Well, when you have an unlimited Federal budget you can get things done (at
least within the laws of physics).

Their technology is about 20 to 30 years ahead of the civilian marketplace,
and is driven by the obvious "national security" directive.

Back in the mid-90s, they already had a 30 petabyte disk farm for storing
all captured electronic signals entering/leaving the USA for 90 days. They
now constucting multi-hundred petabyte disk farms for the purposes of "data
warehousing" along the lines of TIA. 

-- 
Bill Laut