If governments, Google, Microsoft, advertisers, etc are all tracking and archiving our data all the time, how are they able to store it all? Seems like a ton of information especially if they make backups of it all.
>>109598204They have multiple Exabytes of storage
>>109598204winzip
>>109598204Nigga never heard about winrar/7zip
>>109598204I wonder if anybody ever tried, after losing some data, to ask the gov for a copy.When you think about it, that's the least they should do.(By the way, very long ago there was that urban legend on the old internet that a guy had invented a compression algorithm way more efficient than zip, like able to compress a cdrom to a floppy disc, and that guy had disappeared, and the US gov was the only ones to use that secret technology.)
>>109599257>and the US gov was the only ones to use that secret technology.)thats the part thats urban legend/unverifiedthe story really doesnt sound plausiblebut then hes got a weird death
>>109598204imagine being the guy installing new hard drives at YouTube
>>109599302eh, they just buy racks and install whole units i bet
>>109598204https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Centerglowies have infrastructure beyond the reach of any common man
>>109599302And when you think that 99.9% of these data are just a total waste of storage....
>>109598204They just e-mail it to themselves, duh.
>>109598204big markupenough to cover hard drives and much more
>>109599837Was about to post this.For now they're just archiving all internet traffic they can get their glowing hands on, because they anticipate current methods of encryption will be cracked in <10 years.
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>>109598204What do you think the 'AI' datacenters are?
>>109598204The thing is with data compression is that the more often a certain string of 0s and 1s occurs, the easier it is to compress.
