Rath on 27 June 2011
| thetonestarr said: They didn't download it, most likely. At even the absolute best commercial internet connections in the world (we're talking 1Gbps-type speeds), 40TB would take 4 days straight of 100% maxed out transfer rates, and that relies on both the corporation having that fast an upload speed and the hacker having that fast a download speed. Then there's where the heck they'd put it. They themselves said they don't know what to do with it. Given that 99% of the American population doesn't even have access to speeds above 10Mbps (whether that be for finances or the services simply not existing where they live), we can pretty much rule out that they downloaded that much (at 10Mbps instead of 1Gbps, that 4 days becomes 388 days. Again, 100% maxed out the entire time). No, what happened in this story is that Anon got ACCESS to 40TB internal data, and have begun doing frightening things with that access. |
It say's they've dumped it. Which implies that they did in fact download it (as otherwise they would not be able to dump the entire lot).
40TB is a hell of a lot of data though.
Also my math might be wrong but 40,000 GB / 360 seconds at 1GBPS gives about 11 hours - not 4 days doesn't it?
