silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoWe Spied on Trump's 'Southern White House' From Our Couches | Tracking people in-and-out of Mar-a-Lago was easy, thanks to commercial software. Think your privacy is any better protected?www.rollingstone.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1370arrow-down16
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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·7 months agoOkay, it does say “commercial software.” How much do you think that could possibly cost? Anywhere near as much as a private investigator would?
minus-squareLemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down16·edit-27 months agoYou wanna guess how much I spent for a small 250 person company on just log storage? Don’t include labor, just the storage. It’s very expensive. Way more than hiring a guy for $300 an hour.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·7 months agoIs that relevant? Tracking people coming in and out of a building doesn’t require the same amount of storage as a 250-person company or anywhere near it. You could probably store it all on a 1 TB drive. It’s not like these are 8k images.
Okay, it does say “commercial software.” How much do you think that could possibly cost? Anywhere near as much as a private investigator would?
You wanna guess how much I spent for a small 250 person company on just log storage? Don’t include labor, just the storage.
It’s very expensive. Way more than hiring a guy for $300 an hour.
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Is that relevant? Tracking people coming in and out of a building doesn’t require the same amount of storage as a 250-person company or anywhere near it. You could probably store it all on a 1 TB drive. It’s not like these are 8k images.