FBI Ordered to Copy 150 TB of Data Seized From Megaupload

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ardo

ardo

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The US government has been ordered by a New Zealand High Court judge to immediately prepare to copy the 150 terabytes worth of data held on Megaupload servers seized by the FBI in order to turn it over to indicted founder Kim Dotcom.

Included in the 150 terabytes of data are over 10 million intercepted emails and “voluminous financial records” that were obtained from different countries, not just the data seized from Dotcom’s house.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/megaupoad-data/

According to an affidavit by FBI agent Michael Postin, copying just 29 terabytes had taken the agency 10 days. Postin said that copying all the data could take two and a half months. Even then, some of the data could not be copied as it is encrypted, Postin stated.

Much of the data was seized in January from 130 computers and storage devices captured in the dawn raid on Dotcom’s house in Coatesville, north of Auckland. Though the New Zealand court ordered that the items not leave the country until non-relevant portions were returned, the FBI made a copy of the data and FedExed it out of the country, arguing afterward that the copying was permitted.

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ardo said:
The US government has been ordered by a New Zealand High Court judge to immediately prepare to copy the 150 terabytes worth of data held on Megaupload servers seized by the FBI in order to turn it over to indicted founder Kim Dotcom.
Click to expand...

And don't forget my copy too, alright? :joker:
 
ardo

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I find it curious that this data was copied immediately after the raid, sent out of the country illegally in a flash... but when ordered by a court to copy what they copied the FBI needs months.

Bastards.

Also, how does one Fedex 150 tb worth of data?

You could use 50 3 tb externals, I suppose.

Or 8 to 10 of these monsters:

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Drobo DroboElite 16TB USB 2.0 / iSCSI 8-bay Storage Array Perform Bundle EL1A2-2003FYYS-8

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10440897&PID=3668349&SID=


These things are $5000 a piece, plus weigh 16 pounds.

They're also USB 2.0, which is 10 times slower than 3.0. Not a good solution for massive amounts of data.

All this makes me wonder if they ever really did copy his data (???)
 
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