[ Australia's biggest ever police bust has seen not only seen the arrests of the Who's Who of the global criminal underworld, but yielded an extraordinary haul of 3.77 tonnes of drugs, $45 million in cash, guns, luxury cars, motorbikes and watches.
The country's Federal Police released pictures of the wealth, firepower and even taste in gangster movies of those arrested during sweeping raids across the country, the U.S., Britain and wider Europe after the alleged criminals were covertly monitored for three years using an encrypted communication app called 'AN0M'.
They allegedly used the app, secretly developed by the FBI, to message each other around the world, unaware everything they said and did was being intercepted by FBI special agents and the Australian Federal Police.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9661943/Huge-AFP-bust-sees-bikies-criminals-gangsters-arrested-Australia-wide-raids.html)
Not only is data storage much cheaper, everything is miniaturized.
In a very small m.2 drive that is like, 4-7 inches in length and 1-2 in width (too lazy off hand to actually go check) you could get terabytes of data storage whereas a megabyte was a massive cabinet back then.
More expensive than a hard drive, maybe. But easier to hide a datafarm while spending billions of dollars stashed away from the governments' pet projects than ever.