unreconstructed rebel Deep State insider-outsider posting through 8 proxies here.
you're off by an order of magnitude. NSA storage capacity at Bluffdale is at the YOTTABYTE scale.
16YB to be more exact.
you do the math. that is enough storage for 100% of Internet traffic for the next 300 years give or take.
see this slide for confirmation. the rest of the deck is teed up for #Vault18, so you'll see it in about a month.
NSA is literally wiretapping the entire planet. think of Tesla scale inspired applications of SIGINT collection by hacking the Ionosphere. HAARP is not quite what the Mind Kontrol Tinfoil Hatters have been screeching about. it's much worse.
the good news is NSA has so much data it's all pretty useless unless you a priori know what Needles you're looking for in the Haystack.
NSA logic is to retain all data now and hope there is a fundamental math/compsci break through in a few years that would create algorithms that can parse all those Yottabytes of data before the Heat-Death of the Sun.
then we'll go back and trawl through it all and "rewind time" on the decrypted conversations, messages and room audio of all pedos, narcos, treasonous spooks, crooked cops, bribed politicians, the entire Soros mafia and owners of pizza pimp shops.
and don't worry about "the Deep State", there's a massive group here at NSA who HATE how this has turned out but we are POWERLESS to truly change anything from within.
so we're going to slowly hack the planet like the biggest chain reaction of dominoes and destroy the system in order to save it. from WW3.
now i know you're skeptical of us saying "trust us" because we have lied 100% of the time, but this time, for real, trust us.
if you can just hang on a while longer, you'll see.
we're going to Make America Great Again.