Comment on NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months ago
I’m gonna call bullshit based on the story by Snowden in his biography about his Boomer co-worker who was in charge of maintaining a tape drive that recorded all incoming communications from field agents as a backup
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean, there’s a difference between a reel of AMPEX film that the NSA is dragging their feet on digitizing, and the modern 45TB 8gbps tape cartridges that absolutely could be used to store thousands of hours of video per day.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months ago
If I remember correctly, he said it was definitely not a modern tape drive, which is why an older man was maintaining it
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s more modern than what’s being talked about in the article. Snowden knew his stuff, that doesn’t mean he knew what the old guy with the tape was doing tech wise.
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 months ago
Whatever you say man lmao clearly you didn’t read the book and are just making generalizations