Needs the whole thing. Speed depends on connection. We are talking about McAfee here. Do you think he half-assed his own dead man? I don't think it's possible to stop it.
Not necessarily. You can download any fractional part of a torrent folder, provided it's not in a zipped archive.
And zipping a 32 TB archive would take ridiculously long, so I don't see why such an archive wouldn't be just a folder structure from which you can pick individual fragments.
If he was totally stupid he would have you download all 31TB at once. And yes, that would be pretty easy to block because even if you have a 10gbps connection, it would still take a good workday to download it all.
If he was smart, he would have it in smaller parts and release each smaller part individually. Then maybe release those in different ways to keep the enemy from predicting the next wave.
My guess is that he has people all around the world and they could release large chunks of files that are encrypted. Because no one can open them up, you would get the opportunity to download it. Then, all he would need to do is release just the password and that could be done over his wallet that just was released and there would be no way to stop it.
The way block chain works basically is that you don’t have one central server. There are many thousands of servers all around the globe. So, when a transaction takes place, it’s blasted out to them all. So, it’s like trying to shoot smoke. Doesn’t have much impact to it at all. Just a little puff. That could be used for this but this guy is crazy as shit and no telling how complex it could end up being.
If it's a zip, chances are the full thing needs to be downloaded.
If it's multiple zips, you could get some stuff from it, but then again you may get a file that spans into another zip and it won't work.
If it's loose files, you can pick and choose. 99% of the time the full file has to download before you can use it.
However if it's a video there's a small chance you can view it as it downloads.
In most all cases you have to wait for it to download.
How long it takes?
Two factors: the amount of network throughput sending, and how fast you can download.
Can it be stopped?
If it's written to a blockchain, chances are no.
If it's a torrent, then every single seeder must be wiped out for that to happen. But if just 1 person has the full thing, they can come back online and then it will be seeded to the people.
Shutting down a torrent is pretty hard.. it's like whack a mole. Could happen they get them all but another pops up
BTW 31 TB is pretty massive. Very few people will have that kind of space handy right now, since the largest drive you can get is 8-18TB.
Downloading 31TB is going to test your patience. If any anons experienced the 1,200, 2,400 4,800, 9,600 baud, or 14.4bps internet , they will be able to testify too.
I was on BBS systems with just 300 baud back in the early 80s.
31TB would take many days just to copy from one set of drives to another. It would take months to years to download from the internet. And it doesn't much matter how fast your connection is, if the source can't put it out fast enough.
Sorry i don't know what's going on with this 31gb data file.. i must have missed this, do you have links? if it's sending a blockchain message this is a different story.
Blockchain kind of works like this:
100 computers agree that a database is set up a specific way. Computer 101 wants to make a change to the database, the request goes to all the 100 computers (nodes), and they do some checks and balances and report "good" or "bad", and when enough of them verify it's good, it gets written and all computers accept the new data.
Maybe, maybe not.
Blockchain itself is a decentralized database.
--That means it's not hosted in any one particular place, so it's gonna be really hard to kill.
--Each block in the chain is encrypted in such a way that it can't be tampered with, or counterfeited, so no stealth edits.
--Even trying to delete a block will cause the blockchain to become invalid, and a well-designed one can repair itself by reconstructing deleted blocks.
Two things blockchains really suck at are random access to data (think finding a song on a cassette tape vs. a CD) and hosting large chunks of binary data- cryptographic operations are CPU-intensive, and get a lot worse when the data is big.
I think most likely, what's on the blockchain is an Index. Could be magnet links to torrents of the whole thing, a URL to a piece of the data, some ip addresses of dormant machines waiting for someone to connect. There might be some pics or PDFs on the blockchain, but I doubt the corpus is there.
Can the DS get to it first? Tough question. Think of it like the movie "Ready Player One". First one to the keys wins the prize.
Then to piggy back off the OP’s excellent questions, where is the info now and how does it get accessed? Is it possible for black hats to intercept whatever dirt there is before it goes public?
Oohh, this is a really good guess. Just like it looks like Frank Speech was used to draw out the hackers before Trump started “his” site.
I don't need 31 terabytes to know Big Mike has a dick.
I sure hope these photos will not be publicly available, only written confessions of people who have seen it.
Normies might.
They probably wouldn’t believe the truth even if it swang up and thwapped ‘em under the chin.
Isn't it 31?
Needs the whole thing. Speed depends on connection. We are talking about McAfee here. Do you think he half-assed his own dead man? I don't think it's possible to stop it.
Not necessarily. You can download any fractional part of a torrent folder, provided it's not in a zipped archive.
And zipping a 32 TB archive would take ridiculously long, so I don't see why such an archive wouldn't be just a folder structure from which you can pick individual fragments.
Even better. I think he had physical dead man files as well. I guess we will see one way or another.
31TB, I believe..
Didn't he say 31? or was it 3.1? I mean either way I don't know, I'm rather curious myself about the answer to this question.
Yep "31+"
31 TB of data.
Is that a lot? Data dummy here.
31 TB could hold over 20,000,000 copies of the Bible in plain text. Or way over 1,000,000 average MP3 files.
Thank you!
It's all relative. For one person, it's astronomical. For a company like Microsoft or Amazon, it can be contained in 2-3 mid-level storage servers.
A little over 1700 Hi-def Blu-ray discs or 6500 DVDs is another way to think of it.
It depends on the person. I have almost that much free space on my system.
Q said to save everything. I have been downloading and saving everything I possibly can for 30 years or more.
1000 Gigabytes, 100,000 Megabytes, 1,000,000 Kilobytes, the average picture file is about 100KB.
I cant even get the metric system! Lol
If he was totally stupid he would have you download all 31TB at once. And yes, that would be pretty easy to block because even if you have a 10gbps connection, it would still take a good workday to download it all.
If he was smart, he would have it in smaller parts and release each smaller part individually. Then maybe release those in different ways to keep the enemy from predicting the next wave.
My guess is that he has people all around the world and they could release large chunks of files that are encrypted. Because no one can open them up, you would get the opportunity to download it. Then, all he would need to do is release just the password and that could be done over his wallet that just was released and there would be no way to stop it.
The way block chain works basically is that you don’t have one central server. There are many thousands of servers all around the globe. So, when a transaction takes place, it’s blasted out to them all. So, it’s like trying to shoot smoke. Doesn’t have much impact to it at all. Just a little puff. That could be used for this but this guy is crazy as shit and no telling how complex it could end up being.
Ok so the way it works is this:
Can you open it as it downloads?
If it's a zip, chances are the full thing needs to be downloaded.
If it's multiple zips, you could get some stuff from it, but then again you may get a file that spans into another zip and it won't work.
If it's loose files, you can pick and choose. 99% of the time the full file has to download before you can use it.
However if it's a video there's a small chance you can view it as it downloads.
In most all cases you have to wait for it to download.
How long it takes?
Two factors: the amount of network throughput sending, and how fast you can download.
Can it be stopped?
If it's written to a blockchain, chances are no.
If it's a torrent, then every single seeder must be wiped out for that to happen. But if just 1 person has the full thing, they can come back online and then it will be seeded to the people.
Shutting down a torrent is pretty hard.. it's like whack a mole. Could happen they get them all but another pops up
BTW 31 TB is pretty massive. Very few people will have that kind of space handy right now, since the largest drive you can get is 8-18TB.
Downloading 31TB is going to test your patience. If any anons experienced the 1,200, 2,400 4,800, 9,600 baud, or 14.4bps internet , they will be able to testify too.
This ☝️
I was on BBS systems with just 300 baud back in the early 80s.
31TB would take many days just to copy from one set of drives to another. It would take months to years to download from the internet. And it doesn't much matter how fast your connection is, if the source can't put it out fast enough.
Maybe some geeky anon running a RAID 0 setup with 2 18TB's could pull this off
Sorry i don't know what's going on with this 31gb data file.. i must have missed this, do you have links? if it's sending a blockchain message this is a different story.
Blockchain kind of works like this:
100 computers agree that a database is set up a specific way. Computer 101 wants to make a change to the database, the request goes to all the 100 computers (nodes), and they do some checks and balances and report "good" or "bad", and when enough of them verify it's good, it gets written and all computers accept the new data.
Maybe, maybe not. Blockchain itself is a decentralized database. --That means it's not hosted in any one particular place, so it's gonna be really hard to kill.
--Each block in the chain is encrypted in such a way that it can't be tampered with, or counterfeited, so no stealth edits.
--Even trying to delete a block will cause the blockchain to become invalid, and a well-designed one can repair itself by reconstructing deleted blocks.
Two things blockchains really suck at are random access to data (think finding a song on a cassette tape vs. a CD) and hosting large chunks of binary data- cryptographic operations are CPU-intensive, and get a lot worse when the data is big.
I think most likely, what's on the blockchain is an Index. Could be magnet links to torrents of the whole thing, a URL to a piece of the data, some ip addresses of dormant machines waiting for someone to connect. There might be some pics or PDFs on the blockchain, but I doubt the corpus is there.
Can the DS get to it first? Tough question. Think of it like the movie "Ready Player One". First one to the keys wins the prize.
Deep state
yes please! thank you for post.
Then to piggy back off the OP’s excellent questions, where is the info now and how does it get accessed? Is it possible for black hats to intercept whatever dirt there is before it goes public?
Appreciate it. It’s way more professional than my knowledge base on this sort of thing.. which is nil.