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NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s (gizmodo.com)
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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whatever you say man lmao clearly you didn't read the book and are just making generalizations

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm not going to be reading that any time soon.