[163446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sat Jun 8 11:45:58 2013
In-Reply-To: <13976.1370628323@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 11:45:11 -0400
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: goemon@anime.net, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:05 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:57:07 -0700, Mark Seiden said:
>> and also, only $20m/year? in my experience, the govt cannot do anything like this
>> addressing even a single provider for that little money.
>
> Convince me the *real* number doesn't have another zero.
If they're just crunching CDRs as claimed in the news reports, all it
takes is a stack of Netezzas (they were originally designed to crunch
detail data for utility billing), an automated etl task for the daily
telco dumps, a web interface for the agents to submit analysis jobs
that's an abstraction of the sql layer and a couple specialists to
write queries for more complex analysis requests. I do more
complicated work for the government for less money; $20m/year is
easily believable.
-Bill
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