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How the hell do the "evil company" not know someone downloaded 40TB of stuff off them?

With all the hacking headlines going around, you'd think all companies, large or small, would be watching like hawks?

Makes you wonder how much we're really in control, doesn't it?

Hope it isn't MS!

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.

Evil companies.. hmm...

Activision? :)

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?

1GBps =/= 1Gbps. Internet speeds are rated at bits per second instead of bytes per second, because they try making the speeds look better than they really are. 1 Gigabit per second = 128 Megabytes per second (1 byte = 8 bits).

Anyways, all Anon has said is that they've found the 40TB. It's ABC and this article claiming it's been dumped, and here's the problem - WHERE would you dump 40,960 gigabytes of data? If something's been dumped, logic says it's not EVERYTHING, but merely parts of it - probably including parts that summarize/detail what the remaining data consists of, which would be where the descriptions above are coming from.

wht?

And you'd think that sometime in those 4 days (or far longer), the company being downloaded from would figure it out...

You know what will stop this?

Seal Team 6 swooping in over their gentrified public housing "project" apartment building, breaking down their doors, taking them to an undisclosed location in the middle of the night, military men punching in their kidneys, breaking their noses, blackening their eyes, photographing them in a pink prison suit, and the cover story titled "Anonymous: Taken in the Middle of the Night to be Relocated to Guantanamo Bay."

I would also slap prisoner of war status on them so they have no legal remedy other than their military court appointed lawyer.

These folks don't deserve civilian jails. They deserve a 10 year stint in a military brig.

Ask a vet you know about the difference between a state prison such as Chino and a military brig. Chino is a vacation in hawaii compared to 6 months of solitary confinement at time.

That Bradley Manning mofo sure knows...LOL!