10 petabyte (10000 terabyte) of data allegedly stolen from Chinese supercomputer, including classified defense documents

To read 1 PB in 60s you need ~17 TB/s sustained throughput. That’s far beyond what a Tianhe-1A system can sustain at storage level. Internal memory / compute may attain exabyte-scale, but it does not have the capacity for Exabyte-scale data movement. That said, the rest still holds: 10 PB over 6 months is ~55 TB/day, so about ~5 Gbit/s sustained. I don't think this would look like a spike for a national center. Although it must have been quite an elaborate hack (or terrible cybersecurity) if they managed to avoid triggering any alarm based on what the traffic looks like if not the volume.

They took 6 months to take the data, seems more plausible that it went unnoticed over that time frame.

So like the Superman III penny plot, but with data.

Yeah the way anyone halfway competent would do this is first observe the system for a week and learn the traffic curve and then follow it, slowly increasing the overall % over time.

Honestly, I would be surprised if it were even that slow. Most of the racks I deploy these days for anything truly compute intensive is getting 400gb minimum, and 800gb is becoming common. 40/100gb is still common for non-compute intensive servers. For a true supercomputer, I would imagine they are using even greater throughput.

There is a 0.0, repeating of course, percent chance that they were connected to this vpn on 10Gb link. Multiple workers connected on a 1Gb link is much more likely. That's still a metric shit ton of incompetence by whoever was supposed to secure their network.

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I'd say that character is a classic example of a square.

> (Idk if there is a more pc term for it now) Man who identifies as straight.

People stealing ideas from each other isn't anything new. Sure, between you and me, as individual citizens, these rules like copyrights stuff are created so we don't f*** each other over as to maintain an orderly society. But on a state security level? It would the height of stupidity to not steal if your enemy has a better technology than you. Pride, honour and fairness whatnot doesn't matter when it comes to national security. As individual citizens, we have the duty to NOT steal and to obey the law. As a spy agency of a sovereign state with its security and development at stake? It is their duty to steal and apply make their technology better as to not be outdone by their competitors. That's just how things has always worked and will work. The facade of fair play is a delusion for average joe like you and me to uphold, not for the states. Even the European copied the hell out of each other during the industrial revolution. The Germans had to buy English machines and import them from black market in order to reverse engineer them because the English has placed export restrictions on their manufacturing technology, didn't stop the French or Germans from stealing it though. It's a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people when they see foul play on the world political stage, but it'd be more surprising if they didn't try to steal, just like we all know the Chinese stole a lot of of stealth fighter development data from America, and they'd be stupid not to do it. Your biggest rival has a weapon that can't be detected you wouldn't want to steal it? Bro they didn't even bother to make it look different.