Utah NSA data facility: Storage Capacity = lots of zeroooooooooooooes

[nashville_brook]

This is a good companion piece to the WaPo's articles on PRINTAURA and the inner working of the NSA spying program. Found here --> http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/inner-workings-of-a-top-secret-spy-program/282/


http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56515678-78/data-nsa-http-www.html.csp

NSA » Leaks shed light on how spy agency may use supercomputers, gigantic hard drives.

(snip)

Global power » The Bluffdale center comes online amid a historic multibillion dollar expansion of the NSA’s capabilities worldwide, part of a sweeping and futuristic vision the U.S. military has chased for more than a decade.

Leaked documents dating back to 2005 show the Pentagon pouring immense effort, hundreds of acronyms and mind-boggling sums of money into modernizing its technology, networks, hardware and data sharing as it seeks to build a "global information grid.’’

A 2008 internal Department of Defense (DoD) report said such a grid "will be heavily reliant on end-to-end virtual networks to interconnect anyone, anywhere, at any time with any type of information through voice, video, images or text.’’ It is described elsewhere as "analogous to a secured World Wide Web.’’

Bluffdale fits tightly into that global vision, NSA officials confirmed in their Tribune interview, in that it gives analysts with appropriate security clearance at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., other U.S. locations and spy posts around the world access to its data and computers.

"We’re basically running it for the [intelligence] community,’’ Davis said.


(snip)


Indeed:

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. So, the M.I.C.* has been confirmed and is in control.

"futuristic vision the U.S. military has chased for more than a decade."

* Military Industrial Complex....

[leftstreet]

2. Eisenhower first called it the M.I.C.C.*

Military Industrial Congressional Complex

You probably knew that, but for those who didn't:

Military–industrial complex, or military–industrial–congressional complex,[1] is a concept commonly used to refer to policy and monetary relationships between legislators, national armed forces, and the military industrial base that supports them. These relationships include political contributions, political approval for military spending, lobbying to support bureaucracies, and oversight of the industry. It is a type of iron triangle. The term is most often used in reference to the system behind the military of the United States, where it gained popularity after its use in the farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961,[2] though the term is applicable to any country with a similarly developed infrastructure.[3][4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

[nashville_brook]

12. this "vision" has been propelled by huge $$ since Total Information Awareness

that program never went away -- it proliferated like poison ivy.

it needs to be controlled like any weed.

[Coyotl]

3. Utah NSA data facility: Immediate profit capacity for Utah Republican contractors $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[nashville_brook]

10. +1

[Coyotl]

4. Utah NSA data facility: Immediate hiring capacity for Utah Republican Bushies $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[nashville_brook]

11. wonder whose district this is in?

[bigtree]

5. it's full of holes . . .

[IDemo]

6. "TrafficThief"

Someone either had a sense of humor or the Acronym server was down that day.

[SidDithers]

7. It's all zeros and ones...nt

Sid

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. There's an interesting article about it in Wired:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/ (oddly enough, it's linked from the NSA's website: http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/ -- a little strange, since the subtitle of the article is "watch what you say&quot ...

[woo me with science]

9. Orwell was prescient. nt

[FreeJoe]

13. Don't forget the ones

Without the ones, the zeroes mean nothing.

[NoPasaran]

18. Utah is for the zeroes

There's a separate facility in West Virginia where they are keeping all the ones. That way, privacy is maintained.

[DirkGently]

14. There. See? We're not "broke." We have gagillions to spend on snooping.

[Mnemosyne]

15. K&R nt

[davidn3600]

16. land of the free? More like Land of the watched

[Apophis]

17. But this is okay if a Democrat is in charge.

Orwell, in many ways, was a prophet.

Anyone else find it disturbing that, in order to cool the machines and building, it'll take 1.2 million gallons of water/day? So not only are they spying on us, they're wasting what little precious water we have cooling the place.