Feds seized 50TB of data from NSA contractor suspected of theft

October 20, 2016 by Paul Spoerry 3 Comments

Feds seized 50TB of data from NSA contractor suspected of theft
It’s still not clear if Harold Martin was connected to the “Shadow Brokers” NSA dump.

Just to put that in perspective… David Miranda (the Brazilian partner of Glenn Greenwald who worked with Edward Snowden to expose US mass surveillance programs) had his thumb drive confiscated. While only a portion of it had been decrypted it was estimated to hold 60 gigabytes of data. Contractor Harold Martin was found with 50 terabytes (which would be 50,000 gigabytes!).

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Jason “Notorious J.A.Y.” Wiley says

October 20, 2016 at 4:20 pm

50 TB?!!! That's a lot of Data
Amber Peall says

October 20, 2016 at 5:00 pm

Holy cannoli – where's he storing it all?
Paul Spoerry says

October 20, 2016 at 9:55 pm

In his garage! It's so much they've even considered someone broke into his place to jack it?!?!?! dayum!

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